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This is a glass of water, tasteless, right? However if you add sugar, it will taste sweet, but if you add vinegar,（醋）it will become bitter. The same is true with our life. The taste of life is created by our choices.

If kindness is added to a stranger, you will have a friend; but if hostility（敌意） is added, you will have an enemy. If love is added to a pile(堆) of red bricks（砖） you will have a home, but if hate is add to those bricks , you will have an concentration camp（集中营）.So my dear friends，never complain that life is boring and the world is disappointing. If you don’t like the taste of your life, change it yourself.

Three years ago, I weighed more than 100 hundred kilograms which caused much difficulty in my life, like always failing my P.E examinations, always being laughed at by girls, and being terrified to speak in public. It was my grandmother’s encouragement that changed my life. She said “My dear, if you can’t change your appearance, why not treat it as your own style.” So I began to accept the new way of thinking and developed the confidence to make a difference and finally I found a totally new world.

So my dear friend, if faith, hope, love, endurance are added to your life, you will find the confidence to work out all your problems.

1.If love is added to a pile of red bricks, what will you get?

A. An concentration camp.　　　　 B. A home.　　 C. A friend.　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. An enemy.

2.What difficulty did I have three years ago?

A.I always failed P.E examinations.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B.I was laughed at by girls.

C.I was terrified to speak in public　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. All above.

3.If we don’t like our life, we should ______________.

A. add sugar in it　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. add vinegar in it

C. use red bricks to make a home.　　　　　　　　 D. change it ourselves.

4.What do the underline words mean?

A. You should pay attention to others’ opinions.　　　

B. Be yourself and accept yourself as what you are.

C. You should always change yourself.　　　　　　　　

D. You’d better treat yourself as carefully as you can.

九年级英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析

There is half a glass of water on the table. Is the glass half empty or half full? This question can represent a situation where there is both opportunity( 机 会 ) and trouble, but people with different point of views see the same situation in different ways. Ask yourself this question and see what kind of person you are.

If your answer is “half empty”, it shows that you tend to look on the dark side of things. You are a negative—thinking person. You are worried about what you don’t have or what you have lost more than what you already or still have. In other words, you are a pessimist(悲观主义者).

If you see the glass as half full, you tend to look on the bright side of things. You are a positive—thinking person. You know you should take the opportunity that comes your way rather than worry about getting into trouble. This is to say, you are an optimist.

We don’t live in a perfect world, but if we can change the way we see things, the things we see will change.

1.What’s on the table?

____________________________________________________________

2.According to the article, which two sides does a thing usually have?

____________________________________________________________

3.Do you think you are an optimist? Why or why not?

____________________________________________________________

九年级英语回答问题中等难度题查看答案及解析

If you need glasses to read this, you are among most of Chinese students. About four-fifths of high school students in China have poor eyesight(视力). And now more and more children in primary school need glasses, too.

Two main reasons can cause poor eyesight: too much time spent indoors studying and too little time spent outdoors playing. Reading and writing for hours and hours, sometimes in poorly lighted rooms, causes eyesight to weaken. But students have to do this because there is so much pressure on them to succeed in school. They have less time to enjoy the sun.

The sun, it turns out, is important in developing good eyesight. According to a study by Australian National University, Australian children and Chinese children have the same level of eyesight before they start school, but once they enter primary school, Chinese children only spend about an hour a day outside, while Australian children spend three to four hours each day in the sunshine. The result is that while about forty percent of Chinese primary school students need glasses, only three percent of Australian children do.

And poor eyesight at a young age can have serious long term influence. As you get older, your eyesight can worsen.

With all that in mind, don’t you think it’s time to give your eyes a break?

1.How many high school students have poor eyesight in China according to the reading?

A. A half of them.　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. Three percent of them.

C. Forty percent of them.　　　　　　　 D. Four-fifths of them.

2.Which can cause poor eyesight according to the reading?

A. Like reading and writing very much.

B. Spend too much time enjoying the sun.

C. Spend too much time indoors studying.

D. Start primary school at a young age.

3.What can we learn from the third paragraph?

A. Primary school studying can be very harmful to young students.

B. Australian children spend more time outdoors than Chinese children.

C. After primary school, children in China and Australia have the same eyesight.

D. Fewer Chinese primary school students have poor eyesight than Australian ones.

4.What does the writer want to tell us?

A. Remember to give our eyes a break.

B. Develop good eyesight in Australia.

C. Avoid poor eyesight at an old age.

D. Spend little time outdoors　 playing.

九年级英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

Imagine there is a glass on a table in front of you. It has water in it but it is not full. How do you describe the glass? "Half full or half empty?"

If you say half full, you might be an optimist. If you say half empty, you might be the opposite - a pessimist.

Optimism and pessimism represent your general attitude toward certain situations or to life in general. And your attitude about life may be more important to living than you think.

A new study suggests that your level of optimism may affect your health. People who are optimistic may live longer than those who are pessimistic.

Researchers at Harvard University's School of Public Health in Boston did the study. They compared women with "a general expectation that good things will happen" to women who were less optimistic. They found that the optimists had a much lower risk of getting several deadly diseases, including cancer, heart disease and certain types of infection.

Eric Kim is one of the study leaders. He says there is increasing evidence that strengthening psychological (心理的) resilience may help prevent disease. Kim says that these new findings suggest that people should make efforts to increase their resilience and optimism. He says optimism is connected with healthier behaviors and healthier ways of dealing with difficulty. Optimists tend to take better care of themselves by exercising, eating healthy foods and getting enough sleep.

However, the researchers say that healthy behaviors of optimistic people only partly explain the connection with reduced risk of disease.

For the study, researchers looked at information gathered on 70,000 women in the Nurse's Health Study. This massive study began in 1975. It collects health information on those involved in the study every two years. The Harvard researchers looked at the level of optimism of the women, as well as other factors such as race, diet, physical activity level and overall health. They found the most optimistic women had nearly a 30 percent lower risk of dying from disease.

Kaitlin Hagan, another study leader, says earlier studies show that a person can use simple, low-cost methods to increase optimism. For example, thinking about and writing down the best possible outcomes for areas of their lives, like their careers or relationships.

Leslie Ralph, a clinical psychologist and counselor, has several ideas about how to increase optimism. She says each night you might plan to do two or three simple, enjoyable activities the next day, such as watching the sun rise, visiting a friend, dancing to a favorite song or reading a story with your child. And the counselor adds offering praise or support to someone can also improve your own outlook. A smile and "thank you" from another person may help you feel more optimistic.

1.What do we know from the passage?

A.Relations lie among optimism, pessimism and a glass of water.

B.Good expectations increase risk of dying from disease.

C.An optimist is more likely to live healthily.

D.Supporting someone may receive praise of a pessimist.

2.What does the underlined word "resilience" mean in Paragraph 6?

A.The ability to recover from difficulty or change. B.A way of thinking and reacting to things.

C.Factors that influence one's health. D.The ability to experience the sense of touching body.

3.Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A.To Be Optimistic or Pessimistic B.To Look on the Bright Side or the Opposite

C.Increasing Optimism Keeps You More Active D.Looking on the Bright Side Might Help You Live Longer

九年级英语阅读单选困难题查看答案及解析

My house is made of wood, glass and stone. It is also made of software.

If you come to visit, you’ll probably be surprised when you come in. Someone will give you an electronic PIN to wear. This PIN tells the house who and where you are. The house uses this information to give you what you need. When it’s dark outside, the PIN turns on the lights nearest you, and then turns them off as you walk away from them. Music moves with you too. If the house knows your favorite music, it plays it. The music seems to be everywhere, but in fact other people in the house hear different music or no music. If you get a telephone call, only the nearest telephone rings.

Of course, you are also able to tell the house if you want something. There is a home control console (控制台), a small machine that turns things on and off around you.

The PIN and the console are new ideas, but they are in fact like many things we have today. If you want to go to a movie, you need a ticket. If I give you my car keys, you can use my car. The car works for you because you have the keys. My house works for you because you wear the PIN or hold the console.

I believe that several years from now on, most new homes will have the systems that I’ve put in my house. The systems will probably be even bigger and better than the ones I’ve put in today.

I like to try new ideas. I know that some of my ideas will work better than others. But I hope that one day I will stop thinking of these systems as new, and ask myself instead, “How did I live without them?”

1.The writer’s house is NOT made of ________.

A. bricks　　 B. wood　　 C. glass　　 D. software

2.What does the passage mainly discuss?

A. How to develop a new system.　　 B. The function of the PIN.

C. A home for the future.　　 D. Easy life in the future.

3.What is the writer’s purpose of writing the fourth paragraph?

A. To let readers know why his ideas are new.

B. To explain what the functions of the PIN and the console are.

C. To explain the importance of the PIN and the console.

D. To let readers know how special his house is.

4.The writer’s new house is different from ordinary ones mainly because ________.

A. it has your favourite music following you

B. you can make a telephone call anywhere

C. the writer is able to change his new idea into practice

D. it has been controlled by computers

5.What is the writer most likely to be according to the passage?

A. An IT expert.　　 B. A famous engineer.

C. A game player.　　 D. An experienced teacher.

九年级英语阅读单选困难题查看答案及解析

Put a chopstick into the middle of the glass with water and see what will happen. Choose the right picture.

九年级英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

My house is made out of wood, glass and stone. It is also made out of software.

If you come to visit, you'll probably be surprised when you come in. Someone will give you an electronic PIN (个人身份号码) to wear. This PIN tells the house who and where you are. The house uses this information to give you what you need. When it's dark outside, the PIN turns on the lights nearest you, and then turns them off as you walk away from them. Music moves with you too. If the house knows your favorite music, it plays it. The music seems to be everywhere, but in fact other people in the house hear different music or no music. If you get a telephone call, only the nearest telephone rings.

Of course, you are also able to tell the house if you want something. There is a home control console (控制台), a small machine that turns things on and off around you.

The PIN and the console are new ideas, but they are in fact like many things we have today. If you want to go to a movie, you need a ticket. If I give you my car keys, you can use my car. The car works for you because you have the keys. My house works for you because you wear the PIN or hold the console.

I believe that ten years from now, most new homes will have the systems that I've put in my house. The systems will probably be even bigger and better than the ones I've put in today.

I like to try new ideas. I know that some of my ideas will work better than others. But I hope that one day I will stop thinking of these systems as new, and ask myself instead, "How will I live without them?"

1.The PIN can’t ______ in the writer’s new house.

A.turns on the lights

B.play your favorite music

C.make every telephone ring

2.The underlined this information refers to information like______.

A.nationality B.name C.hobbies

3.The writer's new house is different from ordinary ones mainly because _____.

A.it has been controlled by a home console

B.you can make a telephone call anywhere

C.it has your favorite music following you

4.The writer wrote the fourth paragraph in order to ______.

A.explain more easily what the functions(功能) of the PIN and the console are

B.let readers know how special his house is

C.tell the readers how to use the PIN and the console

5.Which is the best title of the passage?

A.Easy life in the future

B.The function of the PIN

C.A home for the future

九年级英语阅读单选困难题查看答案及解析

Air is a colorless, tasteless and invisible（看不见的）gas that is around us. An “empty” drinking glass and an “empty” room, in fact, are not really empty. Each is filled with air. When the glass is filled with water, the water pushes the air out of the glass.

Air, as a gas, has no definite shape, but because it is matter, it takes up space and it has weight. It is easy to prove that air is something that takes up space. Stuff a piece of dry cloth（布）into the bottom of a glass so that it will not fall out when the glass is turned upside down. Push the upside down glass, holding straight up and down, into a jar of water till the glass is completely covered. When the glass is taken out of the water, the cloth is still dry. The air inside the glass shows that it takes up space and keeps the water from coming in.

1.Since air is matter, it has ________.

A．room , and weight as well                 B．both room and shape

C．either room or weight                    D．neither shape nor weight

2.The word “Stuff” means ______ in Chinese.

A．撕               B．盖               C．取掉             D．塞

3.The writer tells that the experiment（实验）___________.

A．is carried out in the space                 B．must be done in the lab

C．is made in the room                     D．can only be done in the open air

九年级英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

Drinking milk every day is good for your health. However, if one day someone gives you a cup of cow-free milk, will you still want to have a drink?

Recently, an American company named Perfect Day surprised the world with its synthetic (合成的) milk. The milk looks and tastes almost like cow milk and has all the same nutrients (营养素).

The creators of Perfect Day are two young scientists, Ryan Pandya and Perumal Gandhi. Working in different cities, they didn’t know each other at first. But they shared the same crazy idea about making milk without the help from cows. They thought it would make the world a kinder, greener place. After they met, they started working on a way of making their dream a reality.

The secret to making cow-free milk? Yeast (酵母), 3D printing technology and old fermentation processes (发酵方法). They have developed a process quite like making beer. The two scientists also say their milk has longer shelf life than the real milk. What’s more, it’s delicious, safe and Earth-friendly. “We want people to enjoy our milk, while leaving a kinder footprint on the planet,” say the two young men.

However, they also know it will be a long way before people accept their synthetic milk.

Before people accept the synthetic milk, maybe we should do something to reduce waste. A store in Scotland is doing such a thing. It sells milk in a vending machine (自动售货机). The vending machine allows people to refill their glass bottles with fresh milk. “The milk vending machine lets us work with a local farm to get really tasty milk for our customers without wasting plastic containers (集装箱),” one worker from the store said. It helps to save the store about one hundred plastic containers a day.

1.What is synthetic milk?

A.It is a kind of cow milk. B.It is a kind of cow-free milk.

C.It is a kind of cow milk mixture. D.It is a kind of cheese.

2.What does the underlined word “refill” mean?

A.Control again. B.Fill again. C.Empty quickly. D.Fill quickly.

3.What can we infer from the passage?

A.The synthetic milk might make the world a kinder and greener place.

B.People enjoy drinking the synthetic milk.

C.The synthetic milk will be tastier than the cow milk.

D.The synthetic milk is cheaper and healthier.

4.What’s the main idea of the passage’?

A.Drinking milk every day is good for our health.

B.The synthetic milk is easy to make.

C.People easily accept the synthetic milk.

D.Two scientists hope to use cow-free milk to make the world a greener place.

九年级英语阅读单选困难题查看答案及解析

I’m afraid this pair of glasses is too expensive . Would you show me ______ pair ?

A. another　　 B. other　　 C. others　　 D. the other

九年级英语单选题困难题查看答案及解析