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2025-2026学年高二下学期5月阶段检测英语试题
第一部分 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2.5分，满分50分）
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The International Linguistics Olympiad (IOL) is a competition for pre-university students, held in a different country each year since 2003. It challenges participants, both individually and in teams, to solve linguistic (语言学的) puzzles. To compete at the IOL, no special knowledge is required, only basic language concepts, logic, patience, and creative thinking. Try this beginner sample to see if the IOL is right for you.
A Puzzle
The names of some South American countries are written in Georgian (格鲁吉亚语) with their English translations: Brazil, Peru, Uruguay
Q: What is the English name of this country
The Solution
●The Georgian forms of “Peru” and “Uruguay” have the same number of letters as their English names, showing a direct letter match.
●The repeated U in “Uruguay” further confirms Georgian is written left-to-right.
●“Brazil” has fewer letters than the Georgian version, but thanks to the two other names, we already know: R, A, G, E.
●With these letters, the pattern can be translated as “A R G E _ _ _ _ A, ” which is “Argentina.”
Contest Rules
● Each individual contestant or team must choose a working language for their problems and solutions, a choice that cannot be changed less than two weeks before the Olympiad begins.
● The individual contest involves solving five problems in six hours, whereas the team contest features one problem with two hours less.
● Unless instructed, giving multiple answers will receive zero marks. Besides, a detailed explanation is required for each answer; failure to provide one will result in a lower score.
Awards
The team contest will award up to one gold, two silver, and three bronze medals. In the individual contest, the number of gold, silver, and bronze medals awarded shall be in the ratio 1: 2: 3, with the total number of medals being between one quarter and one third of the contestants. Click here to find out other awards.
1. Which is essential to solve the sample puzzle
A．Linguistic fluency. B．Reasoning ability. C．Geographic knowledge. D．Mathematical calculation.
2. What is different about the rules for the individual and team contest
A．The duration of the competition. B．The deadline for language choice.
C．The result of giving multiple answers. D．The requirement for answer explanations.
3. If there are 240 individual contestants, how many medals could be awarded in total
A．40. B．54. C．72. D．84.
B
Seven children line up, awaiting their turn on a slide. As each child rushes down, the ones behind laugh and cheer. Such scene is rare in Lagos, one of Africa’s fastest-growing cities, with a population of about 17 million. But on the city’s outskirts, a garbage-site-turned-park is providing room for kids to play. The project is the brainchild of 17-year-old Amara Nwuneli, who wants to prove that even in Lagos’ most crowded corners, children can have fun.
For Amara, the path to building parks began when a terrible flood struck her hometown in 2020. Heavy rains swallowed entire neighborhoods, leaving thousands of families homeless. “People just said it was government failure or bad luck.” Amara recalls. But, later, she realized it was what was called Nigeria’s “climate apathy”: the tendency to view floods, heat waves, and droughts as isolated (孤立的) incidents rather than consequences of a warming planet.
“I wanted to change the mindset,” Amara says. “If people don’t feel connected to nature, they won’t fight to protect it. And I knew that had to start with creating spaces people could actually see and feel.”
It was no easy task. Amara first approached the Lagos State Government, which offered land but imposed (施加) restrictions that made long-term construction impossible. After months of dead ends, she shifted strategy and started looking for alternative spaces that were accessible to high-risk communities. Eventually, Amara secured a garbage site. She then mobilized a team of artists, volunteers, and small donors to clear the trash and rebuild the site with recycled materials. Three months later, the park opened.
Amara is now planning two more parks. She says communities from across the country have been reaching out to her team for advice on how to reclaim abandoned spaces for public use. “That creates a kind of cycle,” Amara reflects. “I take action, others notice, they want to take action, too. And together, it grows.”
4. What might be a problem Lagos is facing
A．Insufficient public areas. B．Poor garbage management.
C．Limited recreational activities. D．Uncontrolled population growth.
5. What made Amara determined to build parks
A．Losses from natural disasters. B．People’s ignorance of climate change.
C．Disappointment in government failure. D．Nigeria’s inadequacy in public education.
6. What quality does Amara demonstrate when completing the project
A．Integrity. B．Optimism. C．Flexibility. D．Confidence.
7. What does Amara want to convey in the last paragraph
A．Small steps make a big difference. B．Every cloud has a silver lining.
C．All roads lead to Rome. D．It is never too late to act.
C
Researchers from the University of Buenos Aires have successfully used a robotic tutor to teach the male chingolo, a kind of small bird in South America, a song that was once part of the species’ culture but had been lost for more than half a century.
Male chingolos learn their unique, two-second melody from adult males. “It is a distinctive song — like a fingerprint, but learned,” says one of the researchers. “It serves to attract females and protect territory. It is the bird’s way of saying, “This is me, and here I am.” However, urbanization and habitat loss have broken this learning chain, causing local song “dialects” to disappear.
Driven by this problem, researchers took on a pioneering task: bringing back a song that had disappeared from the wild — known only from a musical record made in the 1960s — to a population of chingolos.
Using physics-based modeling of the bird’s vocal tract (声道) , the team first created an accurate artificial version of the lost song. They then engineered this model into a physical device designed to broadcast the forgotten melody — a “robotic tutor.” This artificial song was introduced to the chingolos in the park during their critical learning period from October to February. The sessions took place during peak singing hours and were limited to a maximum of eight hours. There were random pauses (停顿) in between so that the birds interpreted the playback from the three devices placed in the area as a real exchange, as if these devices were responding to each other. This stimulated the birds’ vocal responses.
The results were impressive. Young chingolos learned and adopted the song, though they added their own population’s “accent” to the final trill (颤音) , which showed that their singing is shaped by learned behaviors and inborn characteristics.
“This is about preserving not just genetic, but cultural biodiversity,” says another researcher. The team is now developing AI systems to automatically identify individual bird songs and planning to study cultural spread in bird populations to ensure that bird culture is not lost again.
8. Why did the researchers teach the birds the song
A．To save an endangered species. B．To study the birds’ brain structure.
C．To develop new robotic devices. D．To preserve the birds’ cultural heritage.
9. What is a role of chingolos’ song
A．It keeps hunters away from them. B．It helps them adapt to urban growth.
C．It functions as their social identity. D．It makes them remember their habitat.
10. What is the purpose of the random pauses
A．To protect the birds’ vocal tract. B．To test the birds’ reaction speed.
C．To push the birds to catch the beat. D．To trick the birds into interaction.
11. What can we learn from chingolos’ learning results
A．The song has spread to other bird species. B．Their singing shows special vocal features.
C．Their response to the song needs improving. D．The effectiveness depends on their population.
D
Secret codes (密码) once thought impossible to crack now face a challenge from quantum computers. Luckily, to protect information, physicists have developed a theoretically foolproof system called device-independent quantum key distribution (DI-QKD) , which uses entangled quantum particles (纠缠态量子粒子) to fix weak points in existing methods. Now, a team in China has demonstrated the technique in real city conditions, an advance that could clear the way for a secure quantum internet in which trust is taken for granted.
Most cryptography (密码学) works by encrypting messages with a secret code that requires a special key to decode. The challenge lies in making sure the key can’t be decoded when sent. For instance, the keys in one popular encryption scheme are based on the prime factors of large numbers, which take enormous effort to crack. But such calculations could be quick work for the large quantum computers. QKD offers a solution, but it has a weakness: hardware must be perfect.
DI-QKD removes the need for trust in the hardware, by employing another feature of quantum mechanics — entanglement — which closely links properties of widely separated quantum particles. If the sender and receiver entangle a pair of particles across the network, they can each perform tests that confirm the particles’ properties are strongly linked, well beyond chance. After this “handshake”, they can be sure they’re the only ones on the channel. Then, other measurements on the entangled particles can establish a key, which can be shared with confidence that nobody can decode it.
In 2022, a UK-based team managed to create and share a DI-QKD key for only about 2 meters. Now, Jianwei Pan and his colleagues have extended this to practically useful distances. After collecting data for 26 days, they showed they had the statistics to establish and share a key across 11 kilometers. The researchers also showed that in theory — and given about 23 years for data collection — they could have sent a key across 100 kilometers. Pan’s group now plans to explore ways to perform DI-QKD using satellites in space.
12. What is the advance made by Chinese scientists
A．They put forward a coding theory. B．They enhanced DI-QKD practicality.
C．They set up the quantum internet. D．They discovered quantum entanglement.
13. The author explains the encryption principle by __________.
A．providing a definition B．making a comparison C．giving an example D．citing a statement
14. What is the main idea of paragraph 3
A．What entanglement is. B．How DI-QKD works.
C．What prevents key sharing. D．How particles connect.
15. What is the limitation implied in the last paragraph
A．Long data collection time. B．Strict laboratory conditions.
C．Unstable entangled particles. D．Heavy reliance on satellites.
第二节（共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
In recent years, science fictions are becoming increasingly popular. Science fiction writers using their magical imagination create imaginary worlds that attract a great number of readers especially teenagers. But how can they make it so believable 16 ______
The way things work in your imaginary worlds will be based on actual science. So you must be familiar with the scientific laws related to your creation. If you’re writing about humans living on a planet with zero gravity, then you need to know the effects of zero gravity on the human body. 17 ______ Only in this way can you gain the readers’ trust.
Then the rules in your creation can be different from our daily life, so you have to figure out the exact rules of your imaginary worlds. 18 ______ For example, if humans in your creation are able to breathe underwater in Chapter 1, your characters can’t drown (溺水) in a swimming pool or river in Chapter 3.
19 ______ You should decide the following issues: the history of the world, the geography, what possibilities it offers, how everything works in this new reality, as well as how all of these factors affect the way your characters think, feel, and react. You don’t have to tell your readers all the rules in the first chapter. But you have to let readers know enough to understand what’s going on.
When you are writing, remember to make it feel real. You are creating a new real world for the readers. 20 ______ They are able to see, hear, feel, smell, and even taste what it’s like in the new world. Whether your novel is about a world without disease or an undiscovered planet, help your readers feel like they’ re actually there.
A．And you have to follow them.
B．You are inviting them to visit the new world.
C．You have to get rich imagination to create science fictions.
D．Make sure what you are writing is not against basic science.
E．Characters in the imaginary worlds always have super power.
F．Here you will find the answer if you are longing to create one.
G．Your preparation work also involves planning everything in great detail.
16.______ 17.______ 18.______ 19.______ 20.______
第二部分 完形填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
When I was 12, I was diagnosed with scoliosis, where the spine curves to the side. After the 8-hour operation, I spent three days in intensive care and a week in a general ward (病房), followed by being wheelchair-bound for six days, requiring full 21 ______ for all activities of daily living.
Even now, the period of recovery keeps 22 ______ my mind. The paralysis (瘫痪) caused by my spinal injury seemed psychologically 23 ______, and it was so 24 ______ to put up with it. I couldn’t get out of bed or do anything for myself. I was filled with a sense of 25 ______ for the entire experience — an emotion even I couldn’t understand or explain. It was my mother who 26 ______ how I perceived both the surgery and its lasting influence.
She was 27 ______. She’d ask me if she could present it to people, and then she’d turn me around and say, “My daughter is a (n) 28 ______ — you’ve got to check out her scar. Isn’t it a symbol of 29 ______ ” Gradually, it evolved into a 30 ______ part of my identity rather than a source of shame and even became a powerful tool I now use to help others through their own 31 ______.
Since then, I have not 32 ______ discussing my operation — even wearing a wedding dress that showed off the 33 ______ when I married Jack Brooksbank in 2018. Now I am a mother of two, also sponsor of Horatio’s Garden, which helps to improve the 34 ______ of patients having spinal surgery by giving them garden spaces to 35 ______ occasionally.
21. A．rest B．assistance C．participation D．energy
22. A．changing B．concentrating C．crossing D．blowing
23. A．unique B．dependent C．disastrous D．random
24. A．eager B．complex C．ridiculous D．difficult
25. A．shame B．regret C．dignity D．anger
26. A．reshaped B．presumed C．calculated D．recognized
27. A．strict B．cautious C．considerate D．easy-going
28. A．artist B．superman C．operator D．patient
29. A．strength B．history C．love D．suffering
30. A．deserted B．revised C．valued D．destroyed
31. A．guilt B．training C．sympathy D．healing
32. A．got rid of B．put up with C．looked forward to D．backed away from
33. A．honor B．scar C．elegance D．spot
34. A．happiness B．status C．bonus D．right
35. A．extend B．deliver C．switch D．escape
第三部分 语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
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。
With Chinese online literature becoming a global cultural phenomenon, creators and providers are rapidly expanding overseas, acting as carriers of culture and helping writers from around the world get dream jobs.
Online literature, which is believed 36 ______ (gain) a significant foothold in the Chinese mainland in the 1990s, has grown into a global trend over the past two decades. Works in Chinese, whether 37 ______ (release) online or published as physical books, 38 ______ (enjoy) popularity worldwide now.
The rise of online reading platforms 39 ______ the development of localization ecosystems have significantly contributed to the global influence of Chinese online literature. It is now described as one of the world’s four major cultural 40 ______ (phenomenon), alongside US Hollywood movies, Japanese animation and South Korean TV dramas. 41 ______ (feature) great imagination, fascinating plots and compelling (扣人心弦的) stories, Chinese online literature has drawn readers from all over the world. The charm of Chinese online literature is boundless. “It breaks cultural barriers and resonates (引起共鸣) with readers worldwide. Themes like the 42 ______ (pursue) of dreams and the fight for justice are 43 ______ (universe), uniting people across cultures,” said Carlo Maria Rossi, 44 ______ Italian fan of the popular Chinese web novel Lord of Mysteries.
Currently, Chinese online literature is breaking new ground by focusing on the global co-creation of intellectual property (知识产权). Writers from different nations and regions are working together on the development of web novel IPs, 45 ______ has further promoted its international spread.
36.______ 37.______ 38.______ 39.______ 40.______
41.______ 42.______ 43.______ 44.______ 45.______
第四部分 书面表达（满分40分）
第一节 邮件写作（15分）
46. 假定你是李华，准备参加学校组织的英文诗朗诵（recitation）比赛。请给外教George写封邮件求助，内容包括：
1. 说明比赛要求；
2. 请他推荐英文诗；
3. 请教朗诵技巧。
注意：词数80左右；行文连贯。
Dear George,
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Yours,
Li Hua
第二节 读后续写（25分）
47. 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，续写词数150左右。
It was supposed to be a perfect father-son biking adventure. Sixteen-year-old Tom and his dad had planned a 50-kilometer bike ride through the countryside to celebrate Tom’s birthday. The night before, Tom was so excited that he could barely sleep. His mind was full of images of the open road and the beautiful scenery they would encounter.
Before leaving, Tom’s dad put on an old silver watch. It was a family treasure passed down from his grandpa. The watch’s glass was cracked, showing its long history, but it still kept time accurately, standing as a symbol of the family’s toughness. “This watch has seen its share of tough times, just like all of us,” his dad said, smiling at Tom. “But it keeps going, and so will we.” Tom nodded, feeling close to his dad when he looked at the watch.
In the warm morning sun, they set off. Their backpacks were filled with water, energy-boosting snacks and a first-aid kit for any emergencies. Tom’s shiny red bike, which he had spent weeks cleaning and fixing, shone brightly in the sun. As they cycled along the country roads, the fresh smell of grass and wildflowers filled the air. Tom felt extremely happy and pedaled (踩踏板) even harder with excitement.
However, as the morning passed, the sun gradually disappeared behind thick dark clouds. By noon, a cold and heavy rain started to fall. The dry dirt path quickly turned into a muddy mess. Tom’s legs, which had been moving smoothly just a few hours ago, now ached with every push of the pedals. He took a deep breath and tried to focus on the rhythm of his pedaling, trying to ignore the rain and the tiredness in his legs.
Although they were wet and uncomfortable, they kept going. They were determined not to let the weather stop them. But when they turned a sharp corner, they saw a long, steep slope (斜坡). The rain was still pouring heavily, and the path ahead looked very slippery with mud sliding down. Tom’s heart sank, and he began to doubt himself.
Paragraph 1: As Tom hesitated, his dad placed a firm hand on his shoulder.
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Paragraph 2: Gradually, the rain stopped and they arrived at the top of the mountain.
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阅读理解
1.B 2.A 3.C 4.A 5.B 6.C 7.A 8.D 9.C 10.D 11.B 12.B 13.C 14.B 15.A
七选五 16.F 17.D 18.A 19.G 20.B
完形填空
21.B 22.C 23.C 24.D 25.A 26.A 27.C 28.D 29.A 30.C 31.D 32.D 33.B 34.A 35.D
语法填空
36.to have gained 37.released 38.are enjoying 39.and 40.phenomena
41.Featuring 42.pursuit 43.universal 44.an 45.which
书面表达范文
46 求助邮件
Dear George,
I’m going to take part in the school English poetry recitation contest and I’m writing to ask for your help.
The contest requires a poem within three minutes, and participants will be scored on pronunciation, emotion and rhythm. Could you recommend some suitable English poems for me Besides, I wonder if you can share some practical recitation skills to make my performance more impressive.
I would appreciate it if you could give me some advice.
Yours,
Li Hua
47 读后续写范文
Paragraph 1: As Tom hesitated, his dad placed a firm hand on his shoulder. He pointed at the cracked silver watch on his wrist and told Tom that hardships were just tests. Instead of giving up, they could walk the bike slowly up the slope together. Encouraged by his dad’s words, Tom calmed down. They got off their bikes and trudged step by step through the sticky mud, supporting each other whenever one felt exhausted.
Paragraph 2: Gradually, the rain stopped and they arrived at the top of the mountain. A rainbow stretched across the valley, with rolling green fields lying below them. Though soaked and worn out, they felt a strong sense of achievement. Tom realized the journey’s value lay not in smooth roads, but in overcoming difficulties side by side with his father. That tough rainy ride became his most unforgettable birthday gift.

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