《2025年初中英语拓展听力与阅读课堂突破九年级英语全一册译林版》

Colouring is an activity that children worldwide have long enjoyed. With a picture already made for them，kids simply choose a crayon pencil or marker of their favourite colour and fill it in. Today，it also becomes more and more popular among teenagers and even adults，who are enjoying relaxing hours of colouring. In December，five of the top ten best-selling books were colouring books.
They are fun，but are colouring books good for you? The good feedback (反馈) from customers is encouraging. Trina，a popular artist creating colouring books，says that many of her customers are buying the colouring books for others who are sick or going through a hard time. She adds that the "big idea" behind her latest book is to encourage people to do something creative.
Trina is right，according to Allan，a psychology professor (教授). "Many customers think of colouring books as a new creative stage，" he says in an interview，"but what's more important is that people spend time colouring in order to reduce stress after a long day." Research shows that colouring can reduce stress by guiding people to focus on one simple task. When a person is filling in a flower with a light purple colour，he focuses on the flower and forgets about all his troubles in life.
Experts add that colouring may relieve a certain kind of pain. Doing the colouring helps people relax their mind and calm down. Also，colouring helps people's brain in a healthy way. The shape of the drawing makes one side of the brain active，while the colour of the drawing improves the other. Colouring can bring out your imagination and take you back to your childhood. Interesting，isn't it?
"It's very relaxing，" said Susan，a big fan of Trina's colouring books. "Colouring frees my mind. And it's not just to try to fill blank (空白的) pages. The pictures make me happy and there is just something about them. So I'm saving the pictures I like best to the very end."
( ) 1. Trina wants her colouring books to _______.
A. encourage people to be creative
B. be one of the best-sellers
C. let people enjoy relaxing hours
D. help develop her friendship
( ) 2. Why can colouring reduce stress?
A. Because it brings out imagination.
B. Because it shows the beauty of nature.
C. Because it helps people to be more focused.
D. Because it can take people back to their childhood.
( ) 3. What does the underlined word "relieve" in Paragraph 4 mean?
A. Reduce.
B. Separate.
C. Drive.
D. Balance.
( ) 4. What can we learn from this passage?
A. Trina's colouring books are much-loved.
B. Colouring is an effective (有效的) way to cure diseases.
C. Susan tries to save all of her coloured pictures.
D. The shape and the colour of a drawing do harm to our brain.

答案： 1. A
解析：根据第二段“She adds that the 'big idea' behind her latest book is to encourage people to do something creative.”可知，Trina希望她的涂色书鼓励人们有创造力，A选项正确。
2. C
解析：根据第三段“Research shows that colouring can reduce stress by guiding people to focus on one simple task.”可知，涂色能减压是因为它帮助人们更专注，C选项正确。
3. A
解析：根据后文“Doing the colouring helps people relax their mind and calm down.”可知，涂色能让人放松、平静，所以“relieve a certain kind of pain”应是减轻某种疼痛，“relieve”意为“减轻”，与reduce意思相近，A选项正确。
4. A
解析：根据第二段“Trina，a popular artist creating colouring books”以及最后一段Susan对Trina涂色书的喜爱，可推断出Trina的涂色书很受欢迎，A选项正确；B选项“治愈疾病”文中未提及，文中说的是可能减轻某种疼痛；C选项“保存所有涂色画”与文中“saving the pictures I like best”不符；D选项“对大脑有害”与文中“colouring helps people's brain in a healthy way”相悖。