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湖南雅礼中学2026年5月高三模拟英语试题
第二部分 阅读理解
第一节 阅读单选
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Recommended Books for Earth Month 2026
One indirect outcome of Earth Day was the collective decision to protect the wildlife we live with and to cope with the resulting tensions. Here are three of the many titles gathered for this 2026 Earth Month bookshelf.
My Life with Wolves: How I Became the Storyteller for the Yellowstone Packs by Rick McIntyre (Greystone Books, 2026, 296 pages, $30.00)
Former park ranger (护林人) Rick McIntyre shares decades of wisdom from observing wolves in Yellowstone. He narrates how he narrowly missed a deer’s charge and watched alpha wolves battle for territory. More importantly, this memoir explains how the wolves’ calm assertiveness shaped his own values.
The Company of Owls: A Memoir by Polly Atkin (Milkweed Editions, 2026, 216 pages, $25.00)
Restricted by illness to her cottage in England’s Lake District, Polly Atkin finds companionship in a family of owls living nearby. As she watches them grow, she reflects on survival and solitude. The owls, she writes, taught her to listen carefully to the world around her.
Outsider Animals: How the Creatures at the Margin of Our Lives Have the Most to Teach Us by Marlene Zuk (Princeton University Press, 2026, 312 pages, $29.95)
Biologist Marlene Zuk shifts our focus to creatures we frequently overlook — such as snakes, cockroaches, butterflies and other little-known species. With wit and genuine curiosity, she reveals what cockroaches can teach us about evolution, how butterflies reshape our understanding of pollution, and why even unpopular animals offer profound lessons.
21. What does Rick McIntyre mainly convey in his book
A．Observing wolves helped him develop his personal beliefs.
B．His career as a park ranger was filled with unexpected risks.
C．The Yellowstone wolf packs have complex social structures.
D．Humans should always keep a safe distance from wild animals.
22. What drove Polly Atkin to seek companionship with the owls
A．Her desire to write a nature memoir.
B．Her limited mobility due to health issues.
C．Her preference for animals over humans.
D．Her childhood dream of living in the wild.
23. What do the three books have in common
A．They are set in North America.
B．They focus on survival challenges of wild animals.
C．They explore the connection between humans and nature.
D．They stress the importance of protecting endangered species.
B
What do you eat when you need comfort The answer varies depending on where you’re from, but it’s likely some form of broth (肉汤), served steaming in a bowl.
Across continents, broths are woven into cultural and familial memory. They rarely command attention on their own — yet they form the backbone of countless cuisines.
For Dara Klein, a chef in London, broth connects the threads between her early childhood memories in Italy and her life’s work. In Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region, tortellini in brodo is a Christmas tradition. Families gather to shape the pasta by hand while the broth simmers. “Italians are introduced to broth very early in life,” Klein says. “People connect to it deeply.”
Zoey Xinyi Gong, a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) food therapist, remembers her grandmother’s chicken soup with goji berries. “There’s always a soup for every meal,” Gong says. “A meal is not complete without soup.” In TCM, which dates back to the 2nd century BC, broth-based soups help maintain the body’s yin and yang — a balance essential for health.
Chicken soup, in particular, has long been associated with recovery. Korea’s samgye-tang is eaten during the hottest summer days as a restorative meal. Greece’s avgolemono combines chicken broth with egg, lemon and rice. Mexico’s caldo de pate is a sustaining everyday soup.
Scientific research into broth’s benefits is ongoing. Some studies suggest it may help reduce inflammation and ease cold symptoms. However, many sweeping health claims surrounding bone broth remain contested, and its benefits are often overstated in popular wellness culture.
Gong recalls being shocked when bone broth became a trendy health product in New York. “They were selling it at coffee shops for $10 for little cups,” she says. “But we’ve been drinking that for a very long time in China.”
Whether simmered for survival, wellness or celebration, one thing seems universal: In kitchens everywhere, someone is still tending the pot.
24. What does Dara Klein say about broth in Italian culture
A．It is a recent cooking invention.
B．It is only served during Christmas.
C．It was first documented in royal courts.
D．It has deep emotional and traditional roots.
25. What can be inferred about soup in Chinese culture from Gong’s words and TCM principles
A．It is considered essential but primarily for its flavor.
B．It is only consumed when someone is feeling unwell.
C．It is valued as a tool for maintaining physical harmony.
D．It has been replaced by modern medicine in recent years.
26. What is the author’s attitude toward the health claims made in popular wellness culture
A．Complete rejection.
B．Cautious skepticism.
C．Neutral observation.
D．Enthusiastic support.
27. Which phrase or idiom most closely reflects the main idea of the passage
A．There is no place like home.
B．One man’s meat is another man’s poison.
C．The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.
D．A spoonful of comfort — across lands and tongues.
C
Table tennis is a sport that requires fast reaction times as the ball velocity (速度) can exceed 20 m/s in high-level games, and the time between shots is often less than 0.5s. The spin (高速旋转), that is, the angular velocity of the ball, can reach 1,000 rad/s, which greatly affects the ball’s trajectory (轨迹) and its response when bouncing on the table and racket. Spin is used to make shots harder to return or to gain a tactical advantage. Responding effectively requires expert players to master a range of skills for tracking, reacting to, and generating high-speed, high-spin shots.
Since 1983, various table tennis robots have tackled this challenge in simplified settings, using ball launchers, reduced court coverage and excluding either robot or human serves. Crucially, the role of spin has often been ignored, although it is an important component of competitive human play.
Ace, a table tennis robot developed by Sony, a Japanese company, is specifically designed to break through these limitations. Equipped with an advanced perception system using event-based vision sensors and a control system powered by deep reinforcement learning, Ace becomes the first real-world table tennis AI agent competitive with human athletes.
In April 2025, Ace competed against five elite players (defined as competitive athletes with more than 10 years of intensive training) and two professional players (defined as athletes competing in officially recognized professional leagues, specifically the Japanese T. League), following International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) rules. Against the elite players, Ace secured three victories out of five matches, winning a total of seven games out of thirteen played. Against the professional players, Ace lost both matches, though it managed to win one game out of the seven played.
Observing a shot played by Ace, Kinjiro Nakamura, a table tennis expert and participant in the 1992 Olympics, commented: “… no one else would have been able to do that. I didn’t think it was possible. But the fact that it was possible… means that there is a possibility that a human could do it too.”
28. What do we know about spin
A．It speeds up the ball.
B．It makes the ball lighter.
C．It shortens reaction time.
D．It changes the ball’s path and bounce.
29. What key problems has Ace solved
A．Having high cost and lacking opponents.
B．Using unrealistic conditions and ignoring spin.
C．Moving slowly and lacking real-time adjustment.
D．Having limited coverage and responding poorly to high-speed shots.
30. What is paragraph 4 mainly about
A．Ace’s competition results.
B．Types of Ace’s opponents.
C．Rules followed in the matches.
D．Ace’s technical weaknesses.
31. Why is Nakamura’s comment mentioned
A．To say humans never did that.
B．To prove Ace beats all professions.
C．To highlight Ace’s amazing performance.
D．To show that robots could replace humans.
D
While the term “flood” commonly brings to mind images of rushing water or overflowing riverbanks, providing a formal definition of the phenomenon proves surprisingly challenging.
A widely cited definition is provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which characterizes a flood as “the overflowing of normal confines of a stream or water body”. However, this definition is problematic. Specifically, it presupposes a clear understanding of “normal”, yet what counts as normal depends on value-based choices: the timescale, location and rarity threshold (稀有度阈值). For instance, a knee-deep pool in a wetland might be normal, but the same water in a street could be called a flood.
To address this problem, a two-tier framework is proposed. At the first level, physical floods are defined. These are pools or water fluxes beyond a rarity threshold that is set based on values (e.g., an event with a return period of one hundred years). Even this step already involves human judgment, because someone has to decide what counts as “rare enough”. At the second level, anthropocentric floods (human-centered floods) are defined. These are physical floods judged as desirable or undesirable based on personal or social values. A flood that enriches soil may be seen as good by a farmer but bad by a resident who is forced to move away.
This reliance on values creates interventional ambiguity: when values conflict, it becomes unclear whether to intervene. For example, protecting human life suggests action, while economic concerns may delay it. Recognizing this ambiguity helps explain why some flood-prone areas see no engineered solutions despite apparent risk.
In conclusion, it is argued that floods cannot be defined on the basis of physics alone. Value judgments — assessments of how things ought to be — are inescapable. The framework aims to make these hidden choices explicit, fostering clearer communication and better decisions.
32. Why is the IPCC’s definition unsatisfactory
A．It only covers overflowing water.
B．It uses wrong rarity measuring ways.
C．It fails to explain different water cases.
D．It ignores subjective factors in standards.
33. What is TRUE about the two-tier framework
A．Anthropocentric floods are more objective.
B．Physical floods involve no human judgment.
C．The rarity threshold is set by personal values.
D．A flood must be rare to be judged good or bad.
34. The underlined term “interventional ambiguity” most likely refers to __________.
A．hesitation to act due to value conflicts
B．confusion over which areas are at risk
C．disagreement between farmers and residents
D．difficulty in deciding how rare a flood must be
35. Which is the best title for the passage
A．What Defines a Flood
B．Why “Normal” Is Hard to Define
C．Why Flood Definitions Cause Troubles
D．How Physical Science Explains Floods
第二节 七选五
Feeling Good Builds Self-Control, Not the Other Way Around
Self-control is commonly regarded as a precondition for happiness, which explains why we repeatedly make New Year’s resolutions in the hope of improving our lives. But new research challenges this assumption. 36. __________
Researchers carried out a series of controlled experiments to investigate the real relationship between mood and self-control. One group was arranged to complete stressful, difficult tasks to get into a bad emotional state. The other group was asked to finish simple and relaxing tasks to keep a peaceful and positive emotional state for twenty minutes. 37. __________
It is revealed that participants in a positive emotional state scored significantly higher on the self-control measures. 38. __________ In contrast, those in a negative emotional state performed considerably worse. They lost patience easily, gave up halfway, and favored short-term enjoyment without careful deliberation. 39. __________ Positive emotions, therefore, do not lead to laziness or lack of discipline. Rather, they act as steady fuel that sustains self-control over time.
These findings suggest a practical shift in how we approach self-discipline. Rather than blaming ourselves or increasing internal pressure when self-control fails, we should prioritize our emotional well-being. 40. __________ In other words, a relaxed, positive mental state, serves as the true foundation for lasting self-regulation and improved self-management.
A．Self-control brings happiness.
B．Feeling good may instead build self-control.
C．This makes it easier to stick to long-term goals.
D．The participants were then given a five-minute rest.
E．After that, all the participants took the same self-control test.
F．They made more rational long-term choices and rarely yielded to instant pleasure.
G．These findings challenge the common belief that negative emotions enhance self-control.
第三部分 语言运用
第一节 完形填空
Most of us are bad at predicting what will make us happy, including the world’s best athletes.
Four years ago, Swiss skier Mathilde Gremaud won gold at just 22 at the Beijing Winter Olympics. But within a month, her joy had 41. ______. “There’s nothing left,” she said. “It was super 42. ______.”
Gremaud is far from an isolated case. Researchers have found that a significant number of Olympians 43. ______ from a phenomenon called the post-Olympic blues — a(n) 44. ______ crash following the Games. For decades, scientists have sought to 45. ______ why this happens. The answer starts with a simple but 46. ______ fact: people are really bad at predicting what will make them happy.
One of the main reasons for this is a cognitive 47. ______ known as “focalism” — the tendency to focus 48. ______ on big, life-changing events while 49. ______ all the smaller, everyday aspects of life. When we imagine happiness, we tend to think of 50. ______ moments: a championship, a promotion, a dream vacation.
But here is what researchers have actually discovered: how good your experiences are doesn’t 51. ______ nearly as much as how many good experiences you have. The 52. ______ of small, positive moments is a far better 53. ______ of overall happiness than the intensity of a single great event.
54. ______, happiness is not one big victory. It is the 55. ______ of hundreds of small things.
41. A．disappeared B．multiplied C．lessened D．collapsed
42. A．tiring B．empty C．lonely D．meaningless
43. A．escape B．recover C．benefit D．suffer
44. A．emotional B．physical C．sudden D．financial
45. A．carry out B．point out C．figure out D．rule out
46. A．apparent B．surprising C．remarkable D．well-known
47. A．bias B．ability C．error D．blindness
48. A．narrowly B．broadly C．briefly D．casually
49. A．balancing B．remembering C．ignoring D．overvaluing
50. A．memorable B．intense C．rare D．daily
51. A．differ B．matter C．improve D．bother
52. A．duration B．quality C．frequency D．variety
53. A．result B．cause C．reminder D．predictor
54. A．Fortunately B．Similarly C．Obviously D．Actually
55. A．mixture B．outcome C．sum D．achievement
第二节 语法填空
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Kites rank among humanity’s earliest flying inventions, their origins tracing back to China during the late Spring and Autumn Period (770—476 BC). These early “wooden birds”, 56. __________ (fashion) from wood served primarily for military signaling and distance measurement. This humble beginning laid the groundwork for a pastime 57. __________ would eventually grace skies worldwide. The subsequent invention of paper during the Eastern Han Dynasty (25—220) revolutionized kite design, making them lighter, more affordable, and 58. __________ (access). This crucial shift transformed kites from instruments of war 59. __________ cherished objects of leisure and artistic expression, reflecting not only technological advancement but also humanity’s innate desire 60. __________ (blend) practicality with beauty.
A remarkable testament to resourcefulness unfolded in 1847 at Niagara Falls. Engineers faced the challenge of stringing the initial line across the daunting gorge (险峻的峡谷) to begin constructing a suspension bridge. 61. __________ (they) solution A kite-flying competition. 62. __________ (interesting), a teenager named Homan Walsh skillfully piloted his kite across 63. __________ divide. His kite string then served as a channel to pull heavier ropes and, ultimately, sturdy cables across the gorge, 64. __________ (lay) the foundation for the iconic Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge. This story exemplifies the kite’s unexpected potential as a simple yet potent tool for overcoming complex engineering hurdles, proving that innovation often 65. __________ (spring) from unassuming origins.
第四部分 写作
第一节 书信写作
66. 假定你是李华，你和英国笔友Chris正在合作创作一首毕业歌曲。对于歌曲的风格，你们产生了一点分歧。请你给他写一封邮件，内容包括：
(1)说明分歧所在；
(2)表达你的观点并说明理由。
注意：
(1)写作词数应为80个左右；
(2)请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Dear Chris,
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
第二节 读后续写
67. 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
My best friend, Emily, and I had been inseparable since middle school. We shared everything — lunches, secrets, and dreams for the future. Yet as graduation approached, the mounting stress of exams and college applications began to take its toll on both of us. We studied side by side and promised to get through this together.
The turning point came after the midterm examinations. I had prepared for weeks — sacrificing sleep, skipping social gatherings — yet my score fell far below my expectation. Finally, on the other hand, received one of the highest grades in our class. She tried to be kind about it, never bragging or even mentioning her score. But somehow, that made things worse.
She came to me that afternoon with my favorite snacks. “It’s just one exam,” she said gently. “You’ll do better next time.” I nodded but could not bring myself to look at her. She attempted to lighten the mood with silly jokes, but every word felt like a reminder of the growing gap between us. Then she said, half-jokingly, “Come on, don’t be so negative. It’s not the end of the world.”
Something inside me broke. “Easy for you to say,” I erupted. “You’re not the one who failed.” The moment the words left my mouth, I regretted them. Her face fell. She parted her lips to respond, but no words came. After a long, painful silence, she simply stood up and walked away without a word.
The following days were cold and heavy. We stopped sitting together at lunch. She found a new table, and I did the same. We passed each other in the hallways like strangers. I could tell she was hurting too, but pride kept us both frozen. The silence between us was not empty — it was loaded with guilt, pride, and everything we wished we could say.
It was not until our English teacher assigned us to work together on a final presentation that we were forced to confront each other. When I saw our names paired on the list, I felt a mix of dread and relief. Finally, there was no way out.
注意：
(1)续写词数应为150个左右；
(2)请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Silence fell upon us when we sat down to prepare at first.
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
With the weight lifted off our shoulders, we threw ourselves into preparing the presentation.
________________________________________________________________________
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参考答案
一、阅读理解 阅读单选（21-35）
21.A 22.B 23.C 24.D 25.C 26.B 27.D 28.D 29.B 30.A 31.C 32.D 33.C 34.A 35.A
二、七选五（36-40）
36.B 37.E 38.F 39.G 40.C
三、完形填空（41-55）
41.A 42.B 43.D 44.A 45.C 46.B 47.A 48.A 49.C 50.B 51.B 52.C 53.D 54.D 55.C
四、语法填空（56-65）
56. fashioned 57. that/which 58. accessible 59. to 60. to blend
61. Their 62. Interestingly 63. the 64. laying 65. springs
五、写作参考范文
66. 书信范文
Dear Chris,
I’m glad we’re creating a graduation song together, but we have different ideas about its style. You prefer rock music, while I think soft music is more suitable.
Soft music is gentle and warm, which can perfectly remind us of the sweet memories in school. Besides, it can express our sincere feelings for teachers and classmates better. I hope you can understand my idea. Looking forward to your reply.
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
67. 读后续写范文
Silence fell upon us when we sat down to prepare at first. Neither of us dared to break the awkward silence. Staring at the paper, I felt extremely guilty for my rude words that day. Just as I was about to apologize, Emily spoke softly. She told me she never meant to look down on me and was worried about my bad mood. Hearing this, tears welled up in my eyes. I apologized sincerely for losing my temper.
With the weight lifted off our shoulders, we threw ourselves into preparing the presentation. We discussed ideas actively and divided work properly. We laughed and communicated naturally just like before. Cooperation made our work smooth and excellent. After the presentation, we walked side by side again. This experience taught me that true friendship can stand misunderstandings, and we should cherish every precious friend around us.

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