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2025-2026学年第二学期高二期中测试英语试卷
二、阅读理解
A
Park Ranger Intern (实习生) Volunteer
Dates
5/4/2026 - 5/31/2026
Required Days
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
Hours Available
40 hours per week
Description
Applicants need to be currently in a college or university working towards an undergraduate or graduate degree. Majors can include but are not limited to History, Education, Environmental Sciences, Parks and Recreation, Social Sciences, or Biology. We are looking for outgoing students who enjoy working and talking with adults and children. Experience working in an environmental setting and presenting education programs is helpful but not required.
The position is in the Division of Interpretation. Duties include:
Staffing river access sites
Presenting river safety talks and providing area information to river users
Performing river patrols (巡逻)
Developing and presenting educational programs to park visitors, local community groups, and summer youth camps
All interns will be provided with training that includes orientation to the park, education program development, First Aid and CPR certification, and canoe and white-water rescue training. Interns must know how to swim to be considered for this position.
For interns that are coming from outside the commuting area which is defined as over 50 miles from Lackawaxen, PA housing is provided and $30.00 is given for each day worked.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Early applicants will be given first consideration. For more information about the Internship Program, contact Ingrid Peterec, 570-493-1020, email: ingrid_peterec@nps.gov.
21. How many days are required altogether for the program
A．5 days.
B．20 days.
C．28 days.
D．40 days.
22. Which of the following is a duty of the intern volunteers
A．Cleaning up the river.
B．Attending educational programs.
C．Guiding visitors around the park.
D．Educating river users about river safety.
23. What is required to apply for the position
A．First aid skills.
B．A university degree.
C．The ability to swim.
D．Relevant experience.
B
It was a gray day. The cloudy sky had been there for 3 days in a row. Even when it wasn’t raining, there was little light. It looked like all the colors of the world had paled thanks to the gray sky overhead. It looked like a preview of the many winter days to come.
I was driving along in my car on my way home, putting on some music to lift my spirits but I still felt tired and run down from the lack of light.
Suddenly, Joy to the World was playing and I smiled. It had always been one of my favorite songs. Since no one was in the car with me to hear, I started to sing along in my weak and cracking (破裂) voice. Just as I started to sing, though, a crack appeared in the clouds and a ray of sunlight broke through. It shone through the window and landed on my face. I bathed in its light and warmth and felt such joy. Eyes welling up, I held back my tears and continued to sing. Then as quickly as it appeared, the crack in the clouds closed and the sun was hidden again. But its light remained in my soul. Absorbed in this little miracle, I continued to sing all the way home.
Life has its share of gray days and not just in the sky either. When these days appear, you have two choices. You can join in the grayness or you can be the light that finds a crack in the clouds and shines through to brighten another’s heart. For myself, I will always choose the latter.
Find that crack in the clouds then. Do your best to bring a little more light to this life. Do your best to bring a little more joy to this world. Do your best to share the love within you.
24. How did the author feel at the beginning of the drive
A．Annoyed.
B．Lonely.
C．Depressed.
D．Anxious.
25. What happened when the author began to sing
A．The sun broke through the clouds.
B．A passenger joined in the singing.
C．The music player stopped working.
D．The car window cracked suddenly.
26. What can we infer about the author from the passage
A．She often listens to music when driving home to pass the time.
B．She prefers to keep her favorite songs a secret from others.
C．She is a person who chooses to stay positive and spread warmth in hard times.
D．She believes that sunny days are the only source of joy in life.
27. What’s the best title for the text
A．Music improves our spirits.
B．Choosing light in life matters.
C．Life is full of ups and downs.
D．Weather affects mental health.
C
In our hyper-connected world of social media, there’s a refreshing cure — one that’s good for your mental health, reduces stress and anxiety and even helps your immune system: being in nature. While any time spent outdoors is advantageous, there’s a “prescription” that can help you get the most benefits. It’s spending 20 minutes in your local park three days per week, five hours in a nature preserve each month and three days immersed in the backcountry once a year. It’s called the 20-5-3 rule, and it’s a science-backed formula that could revolutionize how we think about outdoor time.
Florence Williams, author of Nature Fix and Heartbreak, tells Yahoo Life: “Having a general guideline like this could be helpful to some people. It’s worth noting that it’s important for each of us to tune into what we need in a particular week or year.” Williams explain that when we’re experiencing extra stress, pain or heartbreak, we might need more time in everyday nature spaces or in deep wilderness. “The emerging science is an opportunity for us to notice how we feel when we’re outside, to recognize which elements of nature we most respond to and to prioritize doing the things that give us the restoration we need,” she says.
While spending time in your local park is beneficial, it requires s more frequent exposure to achieve the same stress-reducing benefits as a deep wilderness experience. That’s because in urban green spaces, we’re often still tied to our devices and surrounded by city sounds. It can be more like “nature-lite” if we’re not intentional about the time we spend outdoors.
The numbers back this up. Research shows that while a 20-minute walk in nature lowers stress hormones, these levels often bounce back within hours in urban pare this to multi-day wilderness experiences, where studies have documented health benefits lasting up to a month.
28. How does the author introduce the topic
A．By giving a definition.
B．By listing numbers.
C．By offering an example.
D．By describing a phenomenon.
29. What do we know about the 20-5-3 rule
A．People may practice the rule flexibly.
B．The rule was created by Florence Williams.
C．Everyone must follow the rule without any change.
D．People should spend 5 hours in a local park every month.
30. Why does the author say urban green spaces are like “nature-lite”
A．There are no real natural things.
B．The air quality there is much worse.
C．Various distractions reduce the effect.
D．People don’t like to stay there for long.
31. What’s the author’s purpose in writing the text
A．To advocate people to get close to nature.
B．To suggest a new treatment to mental illness.
C．To provide a prescription to improve physical health.
D．To recommend an approach to reducing stress and anxiety.
D
Nicholas Dames has taught Literature Humanities at Columbia University since 1998. He loves the job, but it has changed. Over the past decade, students have become bewildered by the thought of finishing multiple books a semester. This development puzzled Dames until a first-year student shared how challenging she had found the early assignments. The student said that at her public high school, she was only assigned passages, but not entire books. “My jaw dropped,” Dames told me. This helped explain the change: It’s not that they don’t want to read. It’s that they don’t know how.
Failing to complete a 14-line poem without giving in to distraction (干扰) suggests one familiar explanation for the decrease in reading ability: smartphones. Teenagers are constantly drawn by their devices. Reading books, even for pleasure, can’t compete with TikTok. In 1976, about 40 percent of high-school seniors said they had read at least six books for fun in the previous year, compared with 11.5 percent who hadn’t read any. By 2022, those percentages had flipped.
But high school kids appear to be encountering fewer and fewer books in the classroom as well. Since the ability to read an entire book is difficult to assess, teachers focus on skills that are easier to measure. They have shifted from books to short passages, followed by questions about the author’s main idea, just as standardized reading-comprehension tests do.
Faced with this situation, many college professors feel they have no choice but to assign less reading and lower their expectations. This means students will miss out on the mental development that comes from reading entire books. Reading enlarges your sympathies. Deep reading — sustained focus on a text — encourages a number of valuable mental habits, including critical thinking and self-reflection, in ways that skimming or reading in short passages does not.
I can imagine worse preparations for the trials, and thrills, of Literature Humanities. But we’ve never forgotten the originals. To understand the human condition, and to appreciate humankind’s greatest achievements, you still need to read The Iliad — all of it.
32. What does the underlined word “bewildered” mean in paragraph 1
A．Delighted.
B．Confused.
C．Satisfied.
D．Relieved.
33. Why does the author list numbers in paragraph 2
A．To highlight the rise of social media.
B．To clarify the problems of smartphones.
C．To illustrate the change in reading methods.
D．To demonstrate the decline in book reading.
34. What is a result of professors assigning less reading
A．The shortage of learning motivation.
B．The reduction of genuine sympathies.
C．The loss of cognitive growth opportunities.
D．The restriction of personal academic progress.
35. What is the author’s attitude towards reading originals
A．Supportive.
B．Doubtful.
C．Cautious.
D．Indifferent.
七选五
The work is piling up, pressure is mounting, and deadlines are approaching. How can we still get useful results if we need to make quick judgments and fast decisions ____36____ Here’s how we can upgrade our minds.
Firstly, challenge your key assumptions. Based on past experience, our mind constantly makes assumptions about the world. However, what saves us time and energy can lead to wrong conclusions if they remain unchallenged. Start by working in a team and questioning each other’s assumptions. ____37____
You should also consider alternative explanations. Humans seek explanations, and we prefer the one that comes to mind first. ____38____ It pays to naturally look beyond the most obvious explanations. This is to avoid confirmation bias; when we ignore evidence that goes against a prior belief. A master thinker treats their preferred explanation just as an assumption.
____39____ They simply refer to the main factors influencing how things have been going or how they will go. If we practice watching for driving factors when we have time to think, we’ll be able to identify them more instinctively on occasions when we’re in a hurry. The master thinker prioritizes the factors that impact an issue the most.
Finally, consider the overall context. The master thinker considers the circumstances and conditions of an issue. ____40____ A few minutes to orient ourselves and reflect on the situation as a whole can once more save us time down the road. Only then is it time to consider the details and incorporate them back into said picture.
A．Moreover, try to focus on key drivers.
B．Attempt to think about problems wisely.
C．However, that isn’t necessarily the correct one.
D．This habit involves looking at the big picture first.
E．True expert thinkers know the limitations of their minds.
F．This collaborative approach enables your thinking to be challenged.
G．Actually, the habits of master thinkers can help in reasoning and making decisions.
三、完形填空
When I entered my freshman year of high school in England from my hometown Milan, Italy, I had a secret that no one knew: I was terrified of public speaking. The mere thought of standing before a crowd would make my heart ____41____ wildly.
That fear became a reality when my English teacher announced a speech contest. “Everyone in class must ____42____,” she said, looking directly at me. I wanted to hide under my desk. For the next three weeks, I practiced my speech every single night in front of my bedroom mirror. But whenever I ____43____ performing in front of my family, my voice would shake and my palms would sweat.
The contest day arrived. Standing backstage, I could hear my heart pounding in my ears. “Next up: Li Hua.” I walked onto the stage, and the bright lights made me ____44____. For ten extremely painful seconds, my mind went completely ____45____. Then I saw my teacher in the front row, nodding gently. I took a deep ____46____, closed my eyes for a moment, and began.
To my surprise, after the first few sentences, the words started flowing. I focused not on the audience, but on the ____47____ I wanted to share — a story about how my grandfather’s perseverance had inspired me. When I finished, the applause felt like a warm embrace. I didn’t win the first prize, but I ____48____ something far more valuable. From that day on, I never ____49____ an opportunity to speak in public again. Each time, the fear became a little ____50____. My teacher later told me, “The goal isn’t to eliminate fear, but to teach your heart to ____51____ despite it.”
Looking back, I ____52____ that the real victory was not the prize but the person I had become. I learned that growth happens when you ____53____ your comfort zone. That small step onto the stage was the ____54____ of a journey toward becoming a more confident version of myself. Now, whenever I feel nervous before a presentation, I ____55____ myself: courage is not the absence of fear—it’s acting in spite of it.
41. A．race B．sink C．melt D．break
42. A．win B．participate C．watch D．host
43. A．practiced B．considered C．imagined D．avoided
44. A．confident B．excited C．proud D．dizzy
45. A．blank B．wild C．deep D．fast
46. A．thought B．look C．rest D．breath
47. A．prize B．message C．technique D．reputation
48. A．lost B．missed C．forgot D．gained
49. A．created B．took C．avoided D．missed
50. A．smaller B．louder C．clearer D．weaker
51. A．break B．hide C．beat D．stop
52. A．doubt B．realize C．forget D．pretend
53. A．build B．find C．step out of D．return to
54. A．end B．symbol C．beginning D．middle
55. A．punish B．remind C．doubt D．challenge
四、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。
Today marks the last day of the Social Media Detox, ____56____ is a fundraising campaign for new sports equipment. At first, more than 100 students had been persuaded to stop ____57____ (use) social media for seven days. Now, with the detox ____58____ (finish), they’ve switched on their ____59____ (device). In the campaign, some students, who found the detox was difficult to tolerate threw ____60____ the towel halfway, while others managed the whole week. Faced with the challenge, they found new ways ____61____ (communicate) with each other. And now they believe that even if social media aren’t ____62____ (access), they can still enjoy a colourful life. In my opinion, what ____63____ (raise) through the detox is not only money, but also the ____64____ (aware) of how much we rely upon social media. Now it’s time for us to step away from it and live ____65____ more meaningful life.
五、书信写作
66. 假如你是李华，你校英语社团正在开展主题为“社交媒体时代的人际交往”的征文活动。请你就家庭互动话题写一篇短文投稿，内容包括：
(1)社交媒体对家庭互动的影响;
(2)你的看法和建议。
注意：写作词数应为100个左右。
Interpersonal Communication in the Age of Social Media
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六、书面表达（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。
An A for Mrs. Bartlett
I was sitting next to Missy in my ninth-grade world history class when Mrs. Bartlett announced a new project. In groups, we were to create a poster around what we were studying.
On a piece of paper, we wrote the names of three friends we wanted in our group. After collecting all the requests, Mrs. Bartlett informed us that she would take into consideration the names we chose and would let us know the results the next day. I was a well-rounded top student in the class, so I had no doubt I would get the group of my choice. There were only a handful of sociably decent people in the class, and Missy was one of them. I knew we had chosen each other.
The next day, I anxiously awaited the class. After the bell rang, Missy and I stopped talking as Mrs. Bartlett called for our attention. She started to call out names. When she reached group three, Missy’s name was called. So I’m in group three, I thought. The second, third and fourth members of the group were called. My name was not included. There had to be some mistake!
Then I heard it. The last group: “ Mauro, Juliette, Rachel, Karina. ” I could feel the tears well in my eyes. How could I face being in that group — the boy who barely spoke English, the one girl who was always covered by skirts that went down to her ankles, and the other girl who was often wearing very strange and unusual clothes with fancy items. They certainly fell into the category of the least popular in our class. They were considered misfits (不合群的人)!
There must be something wrong! Mrs. Bartlett was such a person of insight, vision and thoughtfulness that she never forgot to bring out the potential of all her students. Oh, how badly I wanted to be with my friends. Finally I was determined to convince her I should be in the “ good ” group.
注意：
1.续写词数应为150左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Paragraph 1:
I fought back tears as I walked up to Mrs. Bartlett.
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Paragraph 2:
Halfway through the week, I felt myself enjoying the company of these three misfits.
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参考答案
二、阅读理解
21.B 22.D 23.C
24.C 25.A 26.C 27.B
28.D 29.A 30.C 31.A
32.B 33.D 34.C 35.A
七选五：36.G 37.F 38.C 39.A 40.D
三、完形填空
41.A 42.B 43.C 44.D 45.A
46.D 47.B 48.D 49.C 50.A
51.C 52.B 53.C 54.C 55.B
四、语法填空
56.which
57.using
58.finished
59.devices
60.in
61.to communicate
62.accessible
63.has been raised
64.awareness
65.a
五、征文范文
Interpersonal Communication in the Age of Social Media
Nowadays, many family members bury themselves in social media at home instead of chatting face to face. Cold screens take up most spare time, reducing warm family communication.
In my opinion, overuse of social media weakens family bonds. We should set fixed family time without phones every day. Besides, we can share interesting daily stories or do housework together. Only real face-to-face talks can build close and harmonious family relationships.
六、读后续写范文
Paragraph 1:
I fought back tears as I walked up to Mrs. Bartlett. I poured out my disappointment, begging her to move me to my friends’ group. Mrs. Bartlett smiled gently and explained that the three classmates needed a top student’s help to finish the poster. She told me everyone had shining strengths waiting to be discovered, and this project was a good chance to learn to get along with different people. Though still upset, I nodded and went back to my new group.
Paragraph 2:
Halfway through the week, I felt myself enjoying the company of these three misfits. Mauro was good at drawing historical figures, Juliette had rich creative ideas, and Rachel was skilled at writing descriptions. We cooperated smoothly and shared lots of fun stories while making the poster. I realized they were kind and talented, just misunderstood by others. Our poster won high praise from the whole class. I thanked Mrs. Bartlett later, for she taught me never to judge others by appearance.

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