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2025-2026学年第二学期高二英语期中考试试题
一、完形填空
On a bright afternoon, Jordan, Mahir and Mahir’s father gathered at the foot of a mountain. “Hey, Jordan, over here!” Jordan’s best friend, Mahir, waved his hand, pointing to a crack in the side of the mountain. “We could ___1___ this!”
Jordan tied his safety harness (系带) and checked his rope. He weighed one of them in his hand, determining its weight. Then he looked for ___2___ locations, considering the difficulty of the task. “That crack is ___3___ narrow. I don’t think we’d get up very high.”
“At the time of a test, a person rises or falls.” said Ghanim, Mahir’s dad. Shaking his head in ___4___ over the foreign proverb (谚语), Jordan examined the crack. It was nothing more than a sliver in the solid face of the cliff. He shifted in his harness as Mahir gave the proverb his own explanation: “If you’re not reaching the ___5___, you’re not trying hard enough.” Jordan recognized the bit of advice from a previous climbing lesson.
His own father’s voice resounded in his thoughts, as if in a half-forgotten dream. “Climb a mountain, son, and you climb the insecurity in your own life. You climb over your shadow, climb over your ___6___.”That was five years ago, before the automobile ___7___ that took his dad’s life. Jordan’s father swiftly turned his car and effectively ___8___ a car from going over a cliff (悬崖). The sudden move had saved the people in that car. But his father’s car went off a cliff. ___9___ with the difficult situation, Jordan’s dad had never hesitated before making the decision.
And now Jordan wouldn’t either. ___10___ on his balance, he took a deep breath and began to climb. Finally, they made it to the peak of the mountain.
1. A．master B．pack C．climb D．dive
2. A．worthwhile B．possible C．unique D．immediate
3. A．acceptable B．classical C．amazingly D．unbelievably
4. A．confusion B．awareness C．understanding D．appreciation
5. A．agreement B．destination C．balance D．crack
6. A．shock B．power C．doubt D．struggle
7. A．accident B．journey C．event D．trap
8. A．discouraged B．connected C．pulled D．prevented
9. A．Agreed B．Faced C．Ended D．Gone
10. A．Concentrating B．Depending C．Moved D．Carrying
二、语法填空
阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。
Passage 1
When the 48-year-old Uzbek gymnast, Oksana Chusovitina, ___11___ (participate) in the Asiad women’s gymnastics qualification on Monday, thousands of spectators chanted for “Qiu Ma,” ___12___ translates to “Mother Chusovitina”. When her son was diagnosed with leukemia in 2002, she adopted German citizenship to compete at global events for a higher income and ___13___ (good) medical treatment. After her son’s ___14___ (recover), Chusovitina continued her gymnastics journey out of sheer love for the sport．
11.__________ 12.__________ 13.__________ 14.__________
Passage 2
Shenzhou XVII crew members completed their first spacewalk on 22nd December, 2023, completing a host of tasks outside the Tiangong space station. It was the 14th spacewalk ___15___ (conduct) by Chinese astronauts. There are a lot of science and technology assignments for them ___16___ (perform) during the remaining days of their stay in orbit. Since their arrival, the astronauts ___17___ (examine) and maintained equipment and made preparations for their spacewalk.
15.__________ 16.__________ 17.__________
Passage 3
Possessing more bamboo than any other country in the world, China is known ___18___ the Kingdom of Bamboo. To the Chinese people, bamboo is the symbol of virtue. It has the title of “the gentleman of plants”. It is always closely related to people of positive spirit. For example, its deep root symbolizes determination, and the straight and hollow stem ___19___ (represent) straightness and modesty. Bamboo culture always plays a positive role in encouraging Chinese people to hold on when ___20___ (face) tough situations.
18.__________ 19.__________ 20.__________
三、阅读理解
A Grading Policies for Introduction to Literature
Grading Scale
90-100, A; 80-89, B; 70-79, C; 60-69, D; Below 60, E.
Essays (60%)
Your four major essays will combine to form the main part of the grade for this course: Essay 1 = 10%; Essay 2 = 15%; Essay 3 = 15%; Essay 4 = 20%.
Group Assignments (30%)
Students will work in groups to complete four assignments (作业) during the course. All the assignments will be submitted by the assigned date through Blackboard, our online learning and course management system.
Daily Work/In-Class Writings and Tests/Group Work/Homework (10%)
Class activities will vary from day to day, but students must be ready to complete short in-class writings or tests drawn directly from assigned readings or notes from the previous class' lecture/discussion, so it is important to take careful notes during class. Additionally, from time to time I will assign group work to be completed in class or short assignments to be completed at home, both of which will be graded.
Late Work
An essay not submitted in class on the due date will lose a letter grade for each class period it is late. If it is not turned in by the 4th day after the due date, it will earn a zero. Daily assignments not completed during class will get a zero. Short writings missed as a result of an excused absence will be accepted.
21. Where is this text probably taken from
A．A textbook.
B．An exam paper.
C．A course plan.
D．An academic article.
22. How many parts is a student’s final grade made up of
A．Two.
B．Three.
C．Four.
D．Five.
23. What will happen if you submit an essay one week after the due date
A．You will receive a zero.
B．You will lose a letter grade.
C．You will be given a test.
D．You will have to rewrite it.
B
I was desperately nervous about becoming car-free. But eight months ago our car was hit by a passing vehicle and it was destroyed. No problem, I thought: we’ll buy another. But the insurance payout didn’t even begin to cover the costs of buying a new car－I worked out that, with the loan, we’d need plus petrol, insurance, parking permits and tax, we would make a payment as much as 600 a month.
And that’s when I had my fancy idea. Why not just give up having a car at all I live in London. We have a railway station behind our house, a tube station 10 minutes’ walk away, and a bus stop at the end of the street. A new car club had just opened in our area, and one of its shiny little red Peugeots was parked nearby. If any family in Britain could live without a car, I reasoned, then surely we were that family.
But my new car-free idea, sadly, wasn’t shared by my family. My teenage daughters were horrified. What would their friends think about our family being “too poor to afford a car” (I wasn’t that bothered what they thought, and I suggested the girls should take the same approach.)
My friends, too, were astonished at our plan. What would happen if someone got seriously ill overnight and needed to go to hospital (an ambulance) How would the children get to and from their many events (buses and trains) People smiled as though this was another of my mad ideas, before saying they were sure I’d soon realize that a car was a necessity.
Eight months on, I wonder whether we’ll ever own a car again. The idea that you “have to” own a car, especially if you live in a city, is all in the mind. I live—and many other citizens do too—in a place that has never been better served by public transport, and yet car ownership has never been higher. We worry about rising car costs, but we’d be better off asking something much more basic: do I really need a car Certainly the answer is no, and I’m a lot richer because I dared to ask the question.
24. The author decided to live a car-free life partly because ______.
A．most families chose to go car-free
B．he was hurt in a terrible car accident
C．the cost of a new car was too much
D．the traffic jam was unbearable for him
25. What is the attitude of the author’s family toward his plan
A．Supportive.
B．Disapproving.
C．Optimistic.
D．Unconcerned.
26. What did the author suggest his daughters do about their friends’ opinion
A．Argue against it.
B．Take their advice.
C．Think it over.
D．Leave it alone.
27. What conclusion did the author draw after the eight-month car-free life
A．Life cannot go without a car.
B．Life without a car is a little bit hard.
C．His life gets improved without a car.
D．A car-free life does not suit everyone.
C Try Hard, but Not That Hard.
So many of us were raised with the belief of hard work and max effort, taught that what we put in was what we got out. Now, some coaches and corporate leaders have a new message.
Trying to run at top speed will actually lead to slower running times. Lifting heavy weights until you absolutely can’t any more won’t spark more muscle gain than stopping a little sooner. The trick — be it in exercise, or anything — is to try for 85%. Aiming for perfection often makes us feel awful, burns us out and backfires (事与愿违). Instead, count the fact that you hit eight out of ten of your targets this quarter as a win.
“I already messed it up,” Sherri Phillips would regret after missing one of her daily personal goals. Last year, the COO of a Manhattan photography business began tracking metrics (指标) like her sleep quality and exercise time. It was only after she switched to aiming for 85% success over a week that she stuck with her efforts, instead of giving up when she missed a mark.
Dialing in on the sweet spot of 85% can help us grow. In a 2019 paper, researchers used machine learning to try to find the ideal difficulty level to learn new things. The neural network they created, meant to mimic (模仿) the human brain, learned best when it was faced with queries (疑问) set to 85% difficulty, meaning it got questions right 85% of the time. If a task is too hard, humans get demotivated, says Bob Wilson, an author of the study. “If you never make any errors, you’re 100% accurate, well, you can’t learn from the mistakes.”
Ron Shaich, a founder and former CEO of restaurant chain Panera, is skeptical of people who hit 100% on sales targets. He wonders if the goals are too low. They should be ambitious enough that you won’t always get there, he says. Now an investor, board member and author of a coming business book that stresses 80% equals success, Shaich is convinced most companies don’t even hit that number.
Years ago, as a consultant, Grace Ueng learned the “80-20 rule.” The idea was to stop once you were 80% complete on a project, she says. Ueng recently took up piano. She practiced for long hours and still grimaced (面露痛苦) when she performed for her music group. Then she started tackling small chunks of a piece instead of running through the whole thing again and again. Before a recent performance, she read a book and went to church instead of putting in extra hours at the piano. When it was time to perform, she played well — and actually enjoyed it. “You have to have the wisdom,”she says, “to know when to stop.”
28. What does the underlined phrase “sweet spot” in Paragraph 4 probably mean
A．The most appropriate degree for progress
B．The toughest level for challenging ourselves
C．The lowest standard to avoid making errors
D．The strictest principle to keep working hard
29. According to Ron Shaich, what does consistently hitting 100% targets suggest
A．Exceptional performance.
B．Perfect strategic planning.
C．High levels of employee motivation.
D．Goals not ambitious enough.
30. What can be inferred from the passage
A．Sherri Phillips would not regret any more after tracking 85% metrics.
B．Bob Wilson thinks 100% accuracy gets people full of motivation.
C．Grace Ueng felt optimistic after she played the piano for a long time.
D．Researchers believe the ideal learning way is to face difficult queries.
31. What is the main message of the passage
A．Maximum effort is key to success.
B．Proper aims and effort enhance performance.
C．Striving for perfection leads to burnout.
D．Consistent hard work guarantees success.
D
Some people see colours when they hear different sounds. Others see colours when they see words and numbers printed in black and white. These interesting people are called synaesthetes, and what they experience is called synaesthesia.
A study at the University of Sussex is finding out how learning to see sounds as colours or think of letters in colour could improve your IQ and memory. One of the study leaders, Dr Bor says that carrying out these tests has given them the opportunity to find out more about how people use different kinds of memory.
Dr Bor based his latest research around something scientists already know a lot about—" chunking". He explains that this is a way of breaking large pieces of information into smaller units, to make it easier to remember. "When I give you my phone number, 01274737215, you probably remember it as 012 74 7372 15, or something similar. If you can remember 012 and the first 74, you can remember the rest. You can get some amazing benefits from chunking!"
This is really important for understanding synaesthesia. Dr Bor says that synaesthesia adds extra information to things that are difficult to remember, such as letters and numbers, or extra colours. This helps us remember things better. And Dr Bor's own study of one amazing person, who has both synaesthesia and a very strong memory advantage, supports this idea as well.
The study began as a way to test whether synaesthesia is connected to greater abilities to do certain things and aimed to create a way of learning synaesthesia to develop benefits for everyone. After training, people were able to pass the normal synaesthesia tests, and their IQ jumped up about 12 points! But Dr Bor says they need to test the increase in IQ with different groups of people apart from clever students who took part in this study.
37. According to the passage, when do people experience synaesthesia
________________________________________________________________________
38. How can synaesthesia help improve memory
________________________________________________________________________
39. Please decide which part is false in the following statement, then underline it and explain why
Dr Bor has proved that the IQ of people from different groups was able to improve about 12 points after learning synaesthesia.
________________________________________________________________________
40. Besides synaesthesia, what do you think are some other ways to improve your memory （In about 40 words）
________________________________________________________________________
七选五
Food has always been a universal language that brings people together. It has the power to bridge cultural gaps and foster understanding between nations. ___32___
Actually, culinary diplomacy is not a new concept. It has been practiced for centuries, with ancient civilizations using food as a means of establishing diplomatic relations. Today, it has developed into a more formalized practice, with governments recognizing its potential to build bridges and promote peace.
___33___ Food is deeply rooted in culture, and by sharing traditional dishes, countries can showcase their unique heritage and traditions. Through food, people can gain a deeper understanding of a nation’s history, values, and way of life. This exchange of culinary traditions can lead to a greater appreciation and respect for different cultures.
Culinary diplomacy also provides a platform for dialogue between nations. ___34___ These gatherings create opportunities for people to engage in meaningful conversations. By breaking bread together, people can find common ground and establish connections that go beyond political differences.
Furthermore, culinary diplomacy can have economic benefits for countries. By promoting their local cuisine, nations can attract tourists and boost their culinary tourism industry. ___35___ Additionally, culinary diplomacy can enhance a country’s soft power, as its cuisine becomes a symbol of its cultural richness and diversity.
In recent years, several countries have embraced culinary diplomacy as a means of promoting their national cuisine and culture. Peru, for example, has successfully used culinary diplomacy to promote its cuisine. ___36___ Peru has taken advantage of this by hosting international food events and establishing culinary schools to train chefs. As a result, Peru has seen a significant increase in tourism and international recognition.
A．Culinary diplomacy can promote trade, tourism and cooperation.
B．This generates profit and creates job opportunities for local people.
C．One of the key roles of culinary diplomacy is fostering cultural exchange.
D．Its rich culinary heritage, with dishes like ceviche, has become a global hit.
E．International food festivals and events bring food enthusiasts worldwide together.
F．As the saying goes, “The easiest way to win hearts and minds is through stomach.”
G．This is where culinary diplomacy comes in, using food to promote cultural exchange.
32.__________ 33.__________ 34.__________ 35.__________ 36.__________
四、书信写作
41. 假如你是红星中学高二学生李华。在五一国际劳动节到来之际，你们学校开展了一次以“劳动最光荣”为主题的实践活动。你校国际部交换生Jim对此很感兴趣，发来邮件询问。请你用英文给他回复，内容包括：
1. 劳动过程；
2. 你的感受。
提示词：劳动最光荣：labor is the most glorious
注意：词数100左右；开头结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Jim,
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
参考答案
一、完形填空
1.C 2.B 3.D 4.A 5.B 6.C 7.A 8.D 9.B 10.A
二、语法填空
Passage 1
11.participated
12.which
13.better
14.recovery
Passage 2
15.conducted
16.to perform
17.have examined
Passage 3
18.as
19.represents
20.facing
三、阅读理解
A
21.C 22.B 23.A
B
24.C 25.B 26.D 27.C
C
28.A 29.D 30.A 31.B
七选五
32.F 33.C 34.E 35.B 36.D
阅读表达
37. They experience synaesthesia when they hear different sounds or see printed words and numbers and meanwhile see colors.
38. It adds extra information such as extra colours to hard-to-remember things, which helps people remember them better.
39. False part: from different groups
Reason: Dr Bor only tested clever students in the study and hasn’t carried out tests on other different groups yet.
40. We can memorize things by chunking information into small parts. Repeated review and linking new knowledge to familiar things also work well.
四、书面表达范文
Dear Jim,
I’m glad you’re interested in our school activity themed “labor is the most glorious”.
Last Friday, we were divided into groups to do different work. Some cleaned the campus garden, pulling weeds and watering plants. Others tidied classrooms and sorted rubbish. I helped repair broken desks with my teammates.
Tired as I was, I gained a lot. Labor teaches us to value every fruit of hard work. It also makes me realize that all labor deserves respect.
Would you like to share your labor experience with me
Yours,
Li Hua

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