1、中考英语复习-九年级短文阅读2Believe in YourselfThese days, short videos, TV programs and young idols are all over the place. They keep trying to tell us what the “greatest” fashion is. At the same time, they put a lot of pressure on teenagers.Often, teenagers use fashion to make friends and get likes. However, s
2、ometimes some teenagers pick out others that arent wearing the best clothes and shoes and laugh at them. This is where fashion anxiety comes from.Dr.Jensen, a professor from Western Illinois University, says there are some signs that a child might have fashion anxiety. They become picky about what c
3、lothes they wear and what clothes they will buy.Dr. Mary Bousted, an educator, said, “It can be just from a look that a child receives. Schools should be places where all children feel that they are the same, but it is pretty much impossible to be like that. It is difficult for schools to protect th
4、eir pupils from the influences of society.”What Not to Wear, atelevision show, sets a terrible example. Each week two “designers” go on the street and tell someone how bad he or she looks. Then they tell this person how to look “better”. People are angry about the show. A comment got many likes, “I
5、think everyone wants to be beautiful. But the designers think they are the only people who understand what being beautiful is. Thats the problem!”Why wait for someone to tell you what being beautiful is? If you are able to wear something with confidence, you are already a very fashionable person.The
6、 Highway to MotuoMotuo lies in the south of the Himalayas in Tibet. It is known as the “Natural Museum of Tibet”. It is home to different kinds of mountains, rivers, waterfalls, plants and animals. Its special geographic location makes it a beautiful place, but at the same time, one of the hardest p
7、laces to reach. It was the last county in China without a highway. The construction of the highway to Motuo started in the 1960s. However, it was not completed until over 50 years later. In 2013, the Motuo Highway was finally opened. The highway is 117 kilometers long. To make it safer, the two-way
8、highway is open in only one direction every other day. Although it doesnt seem like a very well-built highway, it is still considered a mega engineering project. Why is that? In this area, earthquakes and heavy rains happen very often. There could be falling rocks or even landslides. People must bui
9、ld many walls and nets to protect the highway. Another challenge is the snow. Large amounts of snow can sometimes destroy forests, rocks and roads. As a result, the construction of the highway to Motuo was stopped several times. To solve this problem, people built a tunnel (隧道) that goes through the
10、 snowy mountain area. Finally Motuo is no longer shut off to the world. The highway is not only a way to connect Motuo to the outside world, but also a great chance for us to see how our country takes care of people in the far mountain areas. At the same time, it teaches us the Chinese spirit of “ne
11、ver giving up”. The Best Way to Protect Red PandasHave you seen a red panda before? What about a video of it? Some time ago, a video about a red panda getting into a hotel room was popular online. The person who took the video seemed happy to finally have the chance to closely play with this “cute”
12、animal. However, experts warned that the cute things it did could actually be dangerous to humans! The red pandas back is brown. Its belly and legs are dark brown or black. There are fewer than 10,000 red pandas in the world. The number is expected to continue to fall. They are endangered animals. T
13、hey face many dangers, including less bamboo to eat, fewer places to stay, and animal trade. Over half of red panda deaths connect directly to human activity. When red pandas walk into humans places, it usually means they have nowhere to go. Naturally, they like to hide in the woods. So for them, it
14、 is not a normal thing to walk around near humans. It means that they are influenced by us humans too much! For humans, it is dangerous to play with wild animals like red pandas. You may think that a red panda looks cute when it is standing like humans or lying down and showing its belly, but these
15、are actually signs that it is very scared. It may attack you in order to protect itself and hurt you badly. We all know that men and nature should live in harmony. But if people think of wild animals as pets or “friends”, there must be someone trying to catch them, keep them or use them to make mone
16、y. The best way to protect either wild animals or ourselves is to keep distance.Science Grandma Wu Yuren, a 72-year-old retired professor of physics from Tongji University, has caught much attention on Douyin for her efforts to the popularization of science. Wu has already been engaged in science po
17、pularization for 16 years. However, science popularization is never an easy task. Translating difficult physics principles into easy-to-understand language requires both a deep knowledge of physics and a strong ability to express and show the principles with experiments. And it is even more difficul
18、t to teach science to children. To help solve these problems, Wu and her team turned to short-form videos three years ago. In the videos, Wu shows people interesting physics experiments. To her surprise, her videos are popular with people of all ages. So far, Wus popular science videos have attracte
19、d over 1 million fans on the Internet. In her videos, Wu often wears a multifunctional vest, which has many pockets all over. Like Doraemons pocket, her pockets are full of magical “toys”, such as water bottles, coins and glasses. She uses them as teaching tools. She is always able to make use of th
20、ese everyday objects to explain complex phenomena found in the field of physics. “Physics is very interesting. I hope to tell teachers and kids how to teach or learn physics,” she said. As long as more and more people can realize the beauty of physics and enjoy endless fun in the world of science, s
21、he feels that all of her efforts are worthwhile.The More Space, the Better You ReadHave you ever tried to pick out the face of a friend in a group photo? Sometimes it is hard, especially when everyone crowds together. It can also be hard to read a passage when the letters are too close together. In
22、fact, a new study shows that spacing the letters farther apart can help a person read faster and gain a better understanding of a text. A group of scientists at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, England wanted to see how much help an increase in the spacing between letters would provide. They c
23、hose 59 students between 11 and 15 years old. The kids came from schools in three cities in England. 32 of them had dyslexia; 27 did not. A crowded text was especially difficult for people with dyslexia to read. Each student read two passages out loud and the scientists recorded them. One passage wa
24、s in its original format. In the other, there was an increase of 0.03 inches in the spacing between the letters. The scientists found kids with dyslexia read the wider-spaced text 13% faster than the text with original spacing. These kids also made fewer mistakes. Students without dyslexia read fast
25、er, too, although only by 5%. This is very good news, right? It means teachers and publishers can print materials with wider spacing between letters knowing it will help everyone. Its a simple fix, too. Certain text-writing software can easily add wider spacing between letters. Web designers can easily add space to the text on their pages, too. The scientists believe that wider spacing between letters will catch on.
