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2025-2026学年天津市滨海新区紫云中学下学期高考3月模拟英语试卷
本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分，满分130分。
第Ⅰ卷（选择题，共95分）
一、听力试题 略
二、完形填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，共30分）
When our restaurant business failed, we headed north in a camping truck to Texas, hoping to have a “fresh start”.
At the ___16___of Palo Duro Canyon (峡谷) State Park, I ___17___a job advertisement hiring park hosts. The position offered a ___18___, permanent campsite in the park, and ___19___, the hosts served as a link between the park’s guests and the rangers (护林人). It was the perfect solution: a rent-free place to reorganize our lives. We entered the park and I made an ___20___for the following day.
The park was___21___, so it took us some time to find an available site. That evening, as we finished our dinner, my wife saw two large skunks (臭鼬) walking toward our table. We___22___climbed onto the table and, for the next four hours, waited for them to ___23___our camp.
Having survived that night, we were ___24___that everything else would be all right. The next day we met with the people who ran the park. They explained our____25____ and gave us a beautiful campsite.
That evening, ____26____, we learned about the canyon ____27____ They were strong and cold, rocking our little camping truck violently, and we lay ____28____ in the dark until the winds died away.
____29____the weeks that followed, we learned to survive in our truck and ____30____
the little money my wife ____31____by substitute teaching. Building a successful business and then losing it had left very little time for building a successful ____32____. For a time after our business ____33____I thought I might lose my family as well.
Living in the tiny_____34_____with no television we sat close together reading and talking. One evening, standing under a jeweled sky, I found myself ____35____ for all the hardships. We had walked the trails and climbed the canyon walls. We had become a family!
16. A. back B. edge C. centre D. entrance
17. A. sponsored B. published C. noticed D. answered
18. A. safe B. free C. convenient D. beautiful
19. A. in return B. in time C. in short D. in turn
20. A. attempt B. agreement C. appeal D. appointment
21. A. crowded B. dangerous C. ideal D. quiet
22. A. repeatedly B. immediately C. eventually D. calmly
23. A. attack B. leave C. pass D. search
24. A. satisfied B. determined C. confident D. aware
25. A. responsibilities B. requirements C. circumstances D. conditions
26. A. moreover B. therefore C. meanwhile D. however
27. A. winds B. snows C. woods D. trails
28. A. shaking B. quarrelling C. mourning D. aching
29. A. After B. Between C. During D. Beyond
30. A. give away B. hand out C. live on D. put aside
31. A. borrowed B. earned C. posted D. raised
32. A. business B. career C. family D. image
33. A. started B. failed C. expanded D. declined
34. A. truck B. park C. house D. camp
35. A. desperate B. ready C. suitable D. thankful
三、阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2.5分，满分50分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A
History Fair Competition
Understanding history is vital to understanding ourselves as a people and as a nation. History is much more than the study of dusty old objects and events long past. It is an essential part of who we are today and who we will become. Thornton Middle School History Fair Competition makes understanding history exciting, engaging, and fun！
This Year’s Theme
All participants must address how communication or transportation technology has promoted the quality of life for Americans throughout history. To many people, technology means computers, hand-held devices, or vehicles that travel to distant planets. However, technology is also the application of scientific knowledge to solve a problem, touching lives in countless ways.
Individuals or groups may enter one of the following categories:
·Performance
·Documentary(纪实作品)
·Essay Writing
Category Requirements
Performance: A dramatic presentation of the topic no more than 10 minutes long. If special clothes are used, they should truly represent a given period.
Documentary: A visual presentation(such as a video, slide show, or computer project)no more than 10 minutes long. A desktop computer, screen, projector, and loudspeakers will be available. Students must provide their presentations on CDs before Friday, March 23.
Essay Writing: An academic paper of 2,000 to 2,500 words. No illustrations(图解) are allowed. Please do not include covers. A list of references must be included.
Important Dates
January 5 Submit a topic proposal to your history teacher. The teacher may require a second proposal if the first is off-topic or unclear.
February 5 Submit a first draft of your essay, performance script(剧本), or documentary highlights.
February 19 A committee of teachers will evaluate materials and give opinions. Students then have an opportunity to improve their products.
March 9 Submit a final draft of your essay.
March 15 Performance and documentary committee preview
March 24 Thornton Middle School History Fair Competition
7：00A. M.—9：00 A. M Participants signing in at the gym
10：00A. M.—6：00 P. M. Competition and judges’ review
7：00PM. Awards ceremony and picnic
36. According to Paragraph 1, what is the major goal of understanding history
A. To preserve national traditions.
B. To prepare for a history competition.
C. To better know the present and future.
D. To further explore historical mysteries.
37. What is the theme of this year’s competition
A. Technology advances science.
B. Science interacts with technology.
C. Science has made the study of history easy.
D. Technology has improved the life of Americans.
38. Among the items provided by the school for a visual presentation are ________.
A. special clothes and a screen
B. a desktop computer and a CD
C. a projector and special clothes
D. a desktop computer and loudspeakers
39. What would a participant have to do with an essay of 1,500 words to meet the category requirement
A. Include more information in the essay.
B. Remove the references.
C. Provide a cover for the essay.
D. Explain the details with illustrations.
40. What will the committee of teachers do on February 19
A. Preview performances and documentaries.
B Make comments on the materials.
C. Improve the participant’s first draft.
D. Collect a second proposal from the participant.
B
When Clara took over her grandfather’s Brooklyn bookshop in 2018, the first thing she removed wasn’t the outdated books, but the WiFi router (路由器). Regulars protested. A lawyer even said he would spend his money elsewhere. But Clara believed that “books need our full attention, just like loved ones do.” She wanted people to focus on reading.
At first, her decision seemed risky, especially when other shops were closing. However, something wonderful happened. By 2020, the shop had become a quiet and comfortable place for people. Teenagers read books on the carpets, forgetting about their phones. A retired judge started a poetry group on Saturdays where people shared poems from memory.
The COVID-19 pandemic (流行病) should have been their death knell. But Clara had an idea: she created “Survival Bundles” — sets of books with her personal notes. To her astonishment, many people, even busy tech managers, loved them. A CEO said it was the first real book he had held since university. Clara realized people were “hungry for a real, touchable experience.”
Last winter, I found her confronted with a new threat. A real estate (房地产) developer bought the building and greatly increased the rent overnight. However, Clara’s customers came to help. They protested outside the shop. The retired judge offered free legal help. Even the lawyer who once complained decided to support her and funded their legal defense.
In court, Clara used a quote from the writer Melville: “We cannot live only for ourselves. Many things connect us.” The judge, who was part of the poetry group, agreed that the rent increase was unreasonable. Clara won.
The shop now displays the court’s decision next to valuable books. It shows that it is our shared human bonds that provide the deepest strength to face contemporary difficulties.
41. What made Clara’s approach to running the bookshop special
A. Satisfying the needs of customers. B. Introducing modern technology.
C. Focusing on rare book collections. D. Prioritizing full concentration.
42. What does the underlined phrase “death knell” in paragraph 3 mean
A. A moment of celebration. B. A desperate cry for survival.
C. An event marking the end. D. A sudden opportunity for growth.
43. Why is the lawyer mentioned again in paragraph 4
A. To show his contradictory behavior.
B. To illustrate the content of a novel.
C. To stress the mass support Clara received.
D. To explain the difficulty Clara came across.
44. What does Clara’s use of the Melville quote in court primarily serve to do
A. To present her deep knowledge of literature to the judge.
B. To highlight the value of community bonds in her defense.
C. To emphasize the legal definition of unreasonable rent increases.
D. To prove that physical books hold more value than digital content.
45. What can we learn from the story
A. Profit-driven decisions may lead to unexpected outcomes.
B. Technology is harmful to traditional businesses and should be avoided.
C. Community and human connection can overcome modern challenges.
D. Small bookshops are bound to encounter many threats in the digital age.
C
Whether we are sitting down or standing up, still or moving, body posture (姿势) influences our mood. Several studies have shown this link between physical posture and mood. Others have shown a relationship between our mood and our cognitive (认知的) performance, including memory, reasoning, learning, and the speed of reaction and processing of information.
So a logical question arises. Can body posture influence our cognitive performance
Previously, a New Zealand team (University of Auckland) carried out an experiment on posture when we walk, especially in the street. The team had found a very clear influence of our posture on our mood and confidence. It appears that walking with a hunched back, bowed head and motionless (静止的) arms has a negative influence on our mental state.
Indeed, the researchers found that the simple act of straightening up, standing up straight, with your head held high, and gazing forward gives us a serious boost of confidence. Not only does our spontaneous (自发的) posture have a psychological effect, but by correcting it, it is possible to bring about improvement in the long term.
In this other study, this time carried out by an Austrian team (Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen-Nuremberg), researchers observed the same phenomenon, this time in a sitting position. Young adults were invited to participate in tests presented as intended to assess their ability to concentrate. In fact, the researchers had them sit in different postures — from upright to very slumped (耸拉着的) — in order to note their influences on mood and cognition.
A first observation indicates that “sitting upright” is associated with a better overall mood. It is also found to have a positive influence on the speed of processing information and completing tasks, although the test pass rate does not vary significantly with posture.
Finally, and surprisingly enough, blood pressure is a little more favorable in an upright position. To further complete the list of benefits of sitting upright, we will add that it is widely recommended for protecting the back in case of work that requires sitting for a long time.
46. Why does the writer mention the studies at the beginning
A. To introduce what cognitive performance is.
B. To emphasize the importance of body posture.
C. To prove the results of those studies are wrong.
D. To raise a new question to be studied and solved.
47. The underlined word “hunched” in Paragraph 3 means ______.
A. straightened B. bent C. loose D. solid
48. The first study indicates that ______.
A. posture influences our mental state B. straightening up has a negative effect
C. gazing upward builds up confidence D. walking posture is especially important
49. What did the Austrian study focus on
A. Proving the long-term benefits of good posture.
B. Assessing concentration levels in young adults.
C. The psychological effects of sitting in different postures.
D. Noting the effects of different sitting positions on mood and cognition.
50. What can we learn about sitting upright
A. It increases blood pressure. B. It requires sitting for a long time.
C. It has mental and physical benefits. D. It helps improve the test pass rate.
D
Psychologists have long been in disagreement as to whether competition is a learned or a genetic component of human behavior. Whatever it is, you cannot but recognize the effect competition is exerting in academics and many other areas of contemporary life.
Psychologically speaking, competition has been seen as an inevitable consequence of human drives. According to Sigmund Freud, humans are born screaming for attention and full of organic drives for fulfillment in various areas. Initially, we compete for the attention of our parents. Thereafter, we are at the mercy of a battle between our base impulses for self-fulfillment and social and cultural norms which prohibit pure indulgence.
Current work in anthropology (人类学) has suggested,however,that this view of the role of competition in human behavior may be incorrect. Thomas Hobbes, one of the great philosophers of the seventeenth century, is perhaps best remembered for his characterization of the “natural world,” that is, the world before the imposition of the will of humanity, as being “nasty, brutish, and short.” This image of the pre-rational world is still widely held, reinforced by Charles Darwin’s highly influential work, The Origin of Species, which established the doctrine of natural selection. This doctrine, which takes for granted that those species best able to adapt to and master the natural environment in which they live will survive, has suggested that the struggle for survival is an inherent human trait which determines a person’s success. Darwin’s theory has even been summarized as “survival of the fittest” — a phrase Darwin himself never used-further highlighting competition’s role in success. As it has often been pointed out, however, there is nothing in the concept of natural selection that suggests that competition is the most successful strategy for “survival of the fittest.” Darwin asserted in The Origin of Species that the struggles he was describing should be viewed as metaphors and could easily include dependence and cooperation.
Many studies have been conducted to test the importance placed on competition as opposed to other values, such as cooperation — by various cultures, and generally conclude that Americans uniquely praise competition as natural, inevitable, and desirable. In 1937, the world-renowned anthropologist Margaret Mead published Cooperation and Competition among Primitive Peoples, based on her studies of several societies that did not prize competition, and, in fact, seemed at times to place a negative value on it. One such society was the Zuni Indians of Arizona, and they, Mead found, valued cooperation far more than competition. After studying dozens of such cultures, Mead’s final conclusion was that competitiveness is a culturally created aspect of human behavior, and that its prevalence in a particular society is relative to how that society values it.
51. What does the author think is easy to see in many areas of contemporary life
A. The disagreement on the inevitability of competition.
B. The consequence of psychological investigation.
C. The effect of human drives.
D. The impact of competition.
52. According to psychology, what do people strive to do following the initial stage of their life
A. Fulfill individual needs without incurring adverse effects of human drives.
B. Indulge in cultural pursuits while keeping their base impulses at bay.
C. Gain extensive recognition without exposing pure indulgence.
D. Satisfy their own desires while observing social conventions.
53. What do we learn about the “natural world” characterized by Thomas Hobbes
A. It gets misrepresented by philosophers and anthropologists.
B. It gets distorted in Darwin’s The Origin of Species.
C. It is free from the rational intervention of humans.
D. It is the pre-rational world rarely appreciated nowadays.
54. What can we conclude from Darwin’s assertion in The Origin of Species
A. All species inherently depend on others for survival.
B. Struggles for survival do not exclude mutual support.
C. Competition weighs as much as cooperation as a survival strategy.
D. The strongest species proves to be the fittest in natural selection.
55. What conclusion did Margaret Mead reach after studying dozens of different cultures
A. It is characteristic of humans to be competitive.
B. Americans are uniquely opposed to cooperation.
C. Competition is relatively more prevalent in Western societies.
D. People’s attitude towards competition is actually culture-bound.
书面表达（25分）
56. 假设你是李津，你的英国笔友Peter对中国年轻人如何承担社会责任非常感兴趣。请你给他写一封邮件，内容包括：
1. 分享一次你参与的公益或志愿活动（如：社区服务、支教、环保等），并描述你在此次活动中遇到的困难及如何克服的；
2. 谈谈你对青年担当的感悟。
3. 期待Peter可以分享自己经验。
注意：
1. 词数100字以上；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
3. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数；词汇提示：
Dear Peter,
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Jin

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