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2025-2026学年第二学期期中考试高二英语试卷
二、阅读理解
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Exploring Chicago: Unique Tours
Whether you seek adventure, history, food, or family fun, there’s a perfect tour: Here are four top options highlighting Chicago’s best.
Best Active: Urban Kayak Chicago Riverwalk
Price: From $60
Duration: 2 hours
This tour is perfect for those who enjoy an active city view and local yummy dishes. Participants paddle kayaks along the Chicago River, stopping at historical points where guides share insights into the city’s architecture. Suitable for beginners, it offers a unique viewpoint.
Best Ghost: Chicago Gangsters and Ghosts Tour
Price: Adults from $35; kids from $17
Duration: 2 hours
This tour delves into Chicago’s darker history, guided by historians through the Loop district. It’s appreciated for its storytelling and historical accuracy. During the tour, you’ll also have the chance to taste authentic local cuisine, offering a delightful culinary experience that complements the rich history and culture of Chicago.
Best for Families: Underground Donut Tour
Price: Adults from $65; kids from $55
Duration: 2 hours
This food tour is a sweet treat for the whole family. Visiting four top doughnut shops, the tour offers a delightful selection of treats while sharing the history of each shop and Chicago’s doughnut culture.
Best Bike: Bobby’s Bike Hike Chicago
Price: From $85
Duration: 4.5 hours
Combining cycling with culinary delights, this tour covers 13 miles through Chicago’s neighborhoods, stopping for local specialties like pizza, beer, cupcakes, and hot dogs. The tour is known for its easy pace and entertaining guides, offering a fun and educational experience.
21. Which activity would you join if you are interested in building
A．Underground Donut Tour.
B．Bobby’s Bike Hike Chicago.
C．Urban Kayak Chicago Riverwalk.
D．Chicago Gangsters and Ghosts Tour.
22. What can participants expect from the Bobby’s Bike Hike Chicago tour
A．A historical walking tour of the city.
B．A food tour focusing on doughnuts.
C．A kayaking experience on the Chicago River.
D．A bike ride with stops for local food and drinks.
23. What do the tours have in common
A．They all include food tasting.
B．They are all led by historians.
C．They all start at the Riverwalk.
D．They are all scheduled for the weekend.
B
To see Garnett Puett’s latest sculpture at the Hammer Museum, you have to enter a dark room protected by a series of heavy curtains. Inside, glowing red light lights up a glass cage. Within the cage are three human figures with a large group of insects crawling over them. The bees move slowly over the faces of the figures. The colony of bees is so thick in places, it looks like fur (毛皮) growing on the statue — fur that moves.
“Woah.” “I’ve never seen anything like this.” Visitors say as they enter the silent room.
Puett has been making his “apisculptures”, using metal, beeswax (蜂蜡) and colonies of live bees, for four decades now. It’s art with a purpose: Puett wants to remind viewers of the power and creativity of bees, whose survival is under threat around the world. “It’s sort of subconscious advertising,” Puett said. “Bees are good.”
In the 1980s, when Puett’s bee sculptures first became an art world hit, people just thought he was a guy playing with bees. Actually, his use of bees came from a deep family tradition. He grew up as a fourth-generation beekeeper, whose family had worked with bees since the 1700s. His great-grandfather raised queen bees, passing the business down to his son and grandson. Puett worked on those farms as a teenager, starting with the simplest tasks. His bee farm experience has resulted in precision in the art he makes with bee colonies.
In the four decades since the eco-artist withdrew somewhat from the art world, he moved to Hawaii, where he and his family have spent three decades running an organic honey farm. The work is challenging and labor intensive. That work has put him on the frontlines of dealing with threats to bee populations. Foreign species have killed numerous bees on his family’s farm, shrinking the number of surviving beehives (蜂巢) from 4,000 to about 2,000 in the past 15 years.
“People used to call me up really mad saying words I can’t repeat if the hives were bothering them,” relates Puett with a laugh. “But since we lost half the bee population within two years, people are more aware of their importance and are far more understanding and appreciative. That’s been the one bright side to all this difficulty.”
24. What do visitors think of Puett’s bee sculpture
A．It is controversial.
B．It is revolutionary.
C．It is innovative.
D．It is educational.
25. Why did Puett make his “apisculptures”
A．To commercialize bee products.
B．To advocate for bees through art.
C．To offer a shelter for threatened bees.
D．To illustrate a new method of sculpture.
26. What does the author intend to do in paragraph 4
A．Introduce the background of the bee art.
B．Summarize the history of beekeeping.
C．Provide bee-themed activities for kids.
D．Add four generations under one roof.
27. What was the impact of the bee population loss
A．People became tolerant of Puett.
B．Puett downsized his beekeeping.
C．Puett shifted his focus to his sculptures.
D．Public perception of bees has been improved.
C
Parents all over the world know that getting kids to eat healthy foods is an uphill battle. Getting them to avoid junk food when they’ve got some spending money is even tougher. However, new research by Szu-chi Huang, an associate professor of marketing at Stanford Graduate School of Business, shows that children tend to choose healthier food if you offer them a deal.
In their study, more than 2,400 kids ages 6 to 11 were offered three-day discount they could use at school to buy healthy beverages (饮料) such as a cereal shake or a natural fruit beverage. The children did react to the price promotions, buying more of the healthy products. Huang believes that the discounts worked partly because of their novelty. “If we can make it fun, like a puzzle or a game, we draw children’s attention to price and value,” she says, “which may not have been important to them before.”
Another key finding is what happened after the experiment was over and the discounts ended. At one school children continued to choose healthy options more frequently than before the study. This surprised the researchers since it refuted what they’d seen in the literature. The reason for the effect, Huang believes, is that this study promoted a healthy option that was not very expensive to begin with. The experiment encouraged children to pay attention to price, so this relatively inexpensive healthy product kept its appeal even after the discount removed.
However, this also suggests that short-term discounts on healthy food could have the unintended longer-term effect of drawing cost-conscious kids toward cheaper, less healthy products. In contrast, long-term incentives (激励) could steer (引导) kids toward healthy products that are seen as relatively affordable, bridging the “price gap” between inexpensive, unhealthy food and more expensive healthy foods. What’s essential, Huang says, is to help develop healthy consumption habits and preferences in children that last beyond the length of the promotion.
Huang says this research has lessons for marketers, who often struggle to make healthy products attractive to kids. It also could help schools provide healthier options since they act as “gatekeepers” for what students eat during the school day and how products are promoted on campus.
28. What may be Huang’s explanation of kids’ positive reaction to the price promotions
A．The discount was new and fun.
B．The option was healthier and cheaper.
C．Kids could play games with classmates.
D．Kids realized the meaning of price and value.
29. What does the underlined word “refuted” in the third paragraph mean
A．Refused.
B．Contradicted.
C．Supported.
D．Compared.
30. What potential disadvantage might short-term discounts have
A．They promote a habit of healthy eating.
B．They may boost unhealthy consumption.
C．They affect kids’ understanding on value.
D．They make unhealthy food more expensive.
31. What is the last paragraph mainly about
A．The practical applications of the research findings.
B．Ways to improve the taste of healthy food for children.
C．The responsibility schools take in students’ diets.
D．Challenges marketers face in promoting healthy food.
D
Can humans really understand what animals are saying, or are we just barking up the wrong tree
“Artificial intelligence (AI) holds the key to unlocking the fascinating insights. Beyond creating chatbots that charm people, machine learning may soon make it possible to decode (解码) animal calls,” says Raskin, co-founder of the nonprofit Earth Species Project. It’s developing AI models that imitate a variety of species, aiming to have “conversations” with animals. Its team is collecting diverse data from various species and building machine-learning models for analysis. Project CETI (鲸类动物翻译计划) focuses on understanding a particular species, in this case the sperm whale.
Sperm whales have complex social groups. When a familiar young male rejoined his family, researchers seized the chance to record their sounds. For two decades, scientists documented two sperm whale groups, capturing their clicking sounds. After manually decoding some sounds, they turned to AI for faster translation. Using a neural (神经的) network, the team trained it to discern individual whales from a subset of sounds. Next, their ambitious goal is to train a computer to speak whale.
As tech advances, the door has been opened to using machine learning to decode unfamiliar languages. It’s found that AI tools have practical value beyond research. Translating animal sounds aids endangered species. Scientists study caged birds’ calls to grasp sound changes, explaining difficulties in reintroduction. Machine learning decodes pets’ signals like barks and facial expressions. Raskin’s AI model translates dogs’ expressions, revealing their surprising capabilities to owners. Additionally, it helps predict pig emotions based on their sounds, enhancing animal welfare. Advancements deepen our understanding of animals.
Now enthusiastic scientists are committed to open-source data and model sharing. “Every time you invent a technology, you also invent a responsibility,” Raskin says. “Designing a ‘whale chatbot’ demands we imagine an animal’s experience. The true value of any language is that it helps us relate to others.”
32. What is the purpose of the Earth Species Project
A．To gather vast data with a computer.
B．To create chatbots that imitate animals.
C．To understand animal languages using AI.
D．To study the social behavior of sperm whales.
33. What does the underlined word “discern” in paragraph 3 mean
A．Train.
B．Recognize.
C．Identify.
D．Seek.
34. How do AI tools provide practical value in deepening our insights into animals
A．By translating animals’ calls and looks.
B．By advancing animal well-being.
C．By reintroducing endangered species.
D．By studying animals’ negative emotions.
35. What is the best title for the passage
A．Lost in Translation Not with AI
B．A Future of Chatting with Animals
C．Whales SOS: Human-AI Unite for Miracles
D．Practical Value of Machine Learning Models
七选五
Why Do I Need A First-aid Kit
You need a first-aid kit because it keeps all your medical supplies together in one place. ___36___. If you or a family member needs first aid, you aren’t going to feel like hunting around your house looking for bandages in the bathroom drawer, your desk for a pair of scissors, the medicine cabinet for antibiotic ointment, etc. ___37___. Consequently, if someone crashes their bike in the driveway or suffers a burn, you can simply grab the kit and be confident that you have everything you need.
If you’re out of your house on a hike, camping trip, soccer practice or scout outing, then a first-aid kit is even more important. ___38___ if you have to wait until you reach a hospital to get treatment. This will also prevent you from having to improvise (即兴创造) with unsanitary (不卫生的) or inappropriate items that aren’t meant for treatment. ___39___.
___40___. It is a larger, more comprehensive kit meant to prepare you for a weather or natural disaster. In this case, you may not have access to a hospital or an ambulance for some time, making an effective first-aid kit even more important to have on hand.
A．A first-aid kit is also portable(便携的)
B．A first-aid kit should be at hand
C．A first-aid kit is also an effective emergency or disaster kit
D．Even relatively minor injuries can become serious issues
E．Thus, you’ll be able to act quickly in case of emergency
F．That will surely save you a lot of time and get the victims properly treated
G．A sterile (无菌的) bandage will be more effective than a dirty handkerchief or sweaty T-shirt
36.__________ 37.__________ 38.__________ 39.__________ 40.__________
三、完形填空
Percival Lugue is an artist in the Philippines. From the age of 5, he has had a ___41___ for collecting toys from fast-food restaurant chains like McDonald’s and home-country favorite Jollibee.
Now, the 50-year-old has about 20, 000 toys packed from ___42___ to ceiling in his home and ___43___ a Guinness World Record from 2014, when his collection ___44___ more than 10, 000 items. “The toy is like a storyteller in itself,” said Lugue, explaining his ___45___ while sitting among his toys in his three-story home. “For example, it gives me a glimpse of that ___46___ period when I got it, the story of what’s going on.” he said.
Lugue built his home especially to ___47___ his collection. He compares the ___48___ that getting new toys gives him to Christmas morning. He has always played with the toy. But unlike the other kids, who would ___49___ their toys into pieces, even as a child, he took ___50___ care of them and put them on display.
While ___51___ purchases brought him most of his toys, some were shared by friends and family. “I would invite my friends to have lunch at McDonald’s and in one sitting I would be able to complete the ___52___ set,” he said.
One of his most ___53___ pieces is a “Hetty Spaghetti” figurine, a mascot from the Jollibee chain that his mother gave him in 1988.
His dream now is to ___54___ put his collection on display for the public or even open a museum to “give others a chance to ___55___ their own childhood memories.”
41. A．potential B．passion C．mission D．quality
42. A．bedroom B．garden C．floor D．kitchen
43. A．holds B．ruins C．provides D．collects
44. A．filled B．reached C．allowed D．expected
45. A．courage B．chain C．choice D．hobby
46. A．particular B．fragrant C．fragile D．curious
47. A．ship B．blanket C．house D．film
48. A．excitement B．depression C．suspect D．frustration
49. A．set up B．tear up C．use up D．build up
50. A．casual B．good C．slight D．little
51. A．personal B．private C．secret D．legal
52. A．enough B．only C．all D．whole
53. A．shared B．treasured C．wasted D．sacred
54. A．eventually B．constantly C．immediately D．naturally
55. A．melt B．weaken C．revisit D．spill
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。
Cork painting, also known as “wood painting”, is ___56___ unique craft native to Fuzhou in Fujian Province. This delicate form of cork carving ___57___ (emerge) in the early 20th century, inspired by similar “wood paintings” imported from Germany. ___58___ (draw) on China’s rich tradition of wood carving, Fuzhou artisans refined these techniques to create an ___59___ (entire) new art form.
The primary material used in cork painting is the outer layer of the bark of the cork oak, a tree commonly ___60___ (find) along the Mediterranean coast of the Americas. This wood ___61___ (be) light, soft, elastic (有弹性的), and has a fine texture that makes ___62___ ideal for intricate carving.
The process begins by slicing the cork into thin sheets, ___63___ are then meticulously (小心翼翼地) carved by hand using traditional techniques. Artisans use ___64___ (knife) to create complex patterns and delicate images. These scenes often depict traditional Chinese pavilions and towers, crafted with great attention to detail. By carefully arranging these elements within the confines of a frame, the artists create a three-dimensional effect that brings the artwork ___65___ life.
56.__________ 57.__________ 58.__________ 59.__________ 60.__________
61.__________ 62.__________ 63.__________ 64.__________ 65.__________
五、通知（书面表达）
66. 假定你是国际学校的学生会主席李华。你校将邀请当地一位知名的体育行业专家进行以“运动促进健康”为主题的讲座，请你就此写一则通知。
内容包括：1.讲座的时间、地点；2.讲座的主要内容。
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。
Notice
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The Student Union
六、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。
I’m 36, a single dad to my 12-year-old son Nick. It’s just been us since his mom died three years ago. Our ninth-floor apartment is small and loud with pipes. The elevator groans, and the hallway always smells like burnt toast. Next door lives Mrs. Lawrence, a retired English teacher and a wheelchair user in her seventies. For Nick, she became “Grandma L” long before he said it out loud. She bakes him pies before big tests and makes him rewrite an entire essay over “their” and “they’re”.
That Tuesday started normally. Then the fire alarm went off. At first, I waited for it to stop. We got false alarms weekly. But this time it turned into one long, angry scream. Then I smelled it — real smoke, bitter and thick.
“Jacket. Shoes. Now,” I said. Nick froze for a second, then dashed for the door. I grabbed my keys and phone. Gray smoke curled along the ceiling. “The elevator ” Nick asked. “Stairs,” I said. “Stay in front of me. Hand on the rail. Don’t stop.” The stairwell was full of people — bare feet, pajamas and crying kids.
Nine flights doesn’t sound like much until you’re doing it with smoke drifting down behind you and your kid in front of you. By the seventh floor, my throat burned. By the fifth, my legs ached. By the third, my heart was pounding louder than the alarm. Eventually, we burst into the lobby (门厅) and then out into the cold night. People gathered in small groups, some wrapped in blankets, some barefoot. I pulled Nick aside and knelt in front of him. I looked around for the friendly face of Mrs. Lawrence and couldn’t find it.
“I need to get Mrs. Lawrence. The elevators are dead. She has no way out.” My son’s eyes filled. “You can’t go back there. Dad, it’s a fire.” “I know. But I can’t leave Mrs. Lawrence behind,” I replied.
Then I turned and rushed back into the building.
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We finally made it outside of the building.
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参考答案
阅读理解
21.C 22.D 23.A
24.C 25.B 26.A 27.D
28.A 29.B 30.B 31.A
32.C 33.B 34.A 35.B
七选五：36.A 37.F 38.D 39.G 40.C
完形填空
41.B 42.C 43.A 44.B 45.D 46.A 47.C 48.A 49.B 50.B 51.A 52.D 53.B 54.A 55.C
语法填空
56.a
57.emerged
58.Drawing
59.entirely
60.found
61.is
62.it
63.which
64.knives
65.to
通知范文
Notice
To help us realize the importance of exercise, our school will invite a famous sports expert to give a lecture themed Sports for Health.
The lecture will take place in the school lecture hall at 2 p.m. next Friday. The expert will share easy daily sports suitable for teenagers, explain how regular exercise improves study efficiency and answer students’ questions on fitness.
All students are welcome to attend on time.
The Student Union
读后续写范文
Then I turned and rushed back into the building. Thick smoke blocked my sight and made me cough badly. Holding my breath, I stumbled upstairs to Mrs. Lawrence’s door and knocked hard. She sat in her wheelchair, trembling in panic. I pushed her wheelchair forward slowly, covering her mouth with a wet towel to keep smoke out. The stairs were slippery, and I moved cautiously step by step, comforting her all the way.
We finally made it outside of the building. Nick ran to us immediately, eyes red with worry. Mrs. Lawrence held both Nick and me tightly, expressing countless thanks. Firefighters arrived soon and put out the fire successfully. Standing in the cool night air, I realized that kindness means never abandoning people who care about us, even when danger is ahead.

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