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北京五中 2025-2026 学年第二学期期末样卷 高二英语
2026.7
本试卷由样卷和校本题两部分组成，共 100 分。考试时长 90 分钟。考生务必
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第一部分 知识运用（共两节，30 分）
第一节（共 10 小题；每小题 1.5 分，共 15 分）
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 个恰当的
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。请在答题卡指定
区域作答。
A
In his 50s, Tom found____1____(he) gaining weight and struggling with joint pain.
He knew that something needed to change. Instead of focusing on big goals, he
decided to start with small, manageable actions. He set a goal____2____(walk) for 20
minutes every morning and gradually added strength training exercises to his routine.
Over the next year, Tom not only lost weight but also regained his strength. Tom's
success reminds us that health and fitness is not about perfection or achieving big
milestones right away. It's about making small, consistent ____3____(choose) every
day.
B
As fall____4____(approach), new students will arrive on college campuses, taking all
kinds of things they need. But among the preparations for move-in day, many have
not considered____5____ they will need to protect their mental health. Actually, new
students often report loneliness and not fitting in. One tool for them is to spend some
time extracurricular someone back home,____6____ have been especially helpful.
When you're not feeling the best at school, you know you can reach out to them.
C
The Rocky Mountains are one of the most amazing natural features in North America,
____7____(stretch) 3,000 miles from New Mexico all the way to western Canada.
And because this mountain range includes a huge variety of animals, plants, and
geological features, it's no surprise that it hosts many national parks ____8____ both
the United States and Canada. The oldest, Yellowstone National Park,
____9____(found) in 1872, but other parks followed quickly. The newest is Black
Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, ____10____(create) in 1999.
第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，38 分）
第一节（共 14 小题；每小题 2 分，共 28 分）
阅读下列短文，从题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答
题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Habitat for Birds Campus Chapters
Habitat for Birds is an organization that brings people together to protect bird habitats,
conserve bird species, and foster hope for our planet's biodiversity. A Habitat for
Birds campus chapter is initiated and led by a group of students on a high school or
college campus. Its members are students passionate about protecting our feathered
friends and the ecosystems they rely on. Each campus chapter partners with a nearby
organization-the local Habitat for Birds and is ready to take fulfill preservation.
Four guiding functions for campus chapters:
1.Direct service
Campus chapters volunteer on habitat restoration projects, such as planting native
invasive participating in citizen science bird counts, and assisting in treating injured
birds.
2.Fundraising
Campus chapters raise funds to support the work of local bird conservation trusts and
international environmental initiatives. Chapters may contribute through various
eco-friendly fundraisers, such as charity bird walks or sustainable product sales, in
partnership with local environmental organizations.
3.Advocating
Campus chapter leaders and members must advocate environmental protection, which
means raising your voice to help local authorities shape policies that protect wetlands,
forests, and urban green spaces, ensuring a healthier planet for both birds and humans.
4.Educating
Campus chapters help educate others on their campus and in their local community
about the critical link between bird survival and human well-being. By sharing
knowledge about how birds control pests and pollinate plants, and raising awareness
about threats like climate change and plastic pollution, they help more people
understand the importance of a balanced ecosystem.
Do you already volunteer with environmental causes and are ready to take your
involvement to the next level In order to start a campus chapter and gain access to
greater resources and support, your group must partner with a nearby organization.
And your local Habitat will work with you to establish your chapter and set
conservation goals for the year.
11.What do we know about a Habitat for Birds campus chapter
A. It is open to every bird lover.
B. It is under a school's charge.
C. It is a student-run organization.
D. It is for the study of ecosystems.
12.What can a Habitat for Birds campus chapter do
A. Sell eco-friendly products to raise money.
B. Organize activities to record bird species.
C. Make policies to protect green spaces.
D. Design habitat restoration projects.
13.What is required to set up a Habitat for Birds campus chapter
A. Making a one-year plan.
B. Experience in volunteer work.
C. Knowledge of the four functions.
D. Joining hands with a local Habitat.
B
As I started my grad school (研究生学业 ), I found everyone seemed so certain of
their talent, so fluent in the language of ambition. I, on the other hand, was still
figuring out what I even wanted my voice to sound like.
There was this quiet, unspoken current of competition: who got published, who was
shortlisted for something, who got invited to read. No one said it aloud, but we all felt
it. I genuinely loved reading my classmates' works, but every time I did, I caught
myself wondering if I'd ever write something that effortless, that sure of itself, which
would fuel my hidden worry whether it was already too late for me to be successful.
To add to the pressure, in the second semester of my first year, I worked with
Marilynne Robinson, a Pulitzer Prize winner. I became consumed with making my
writing worth her time, so much so that the first story I handed in for our workshop
appeared to be something over-polished. When Marilynne told me that my main
character "had no soul", it stung deeply. At that time, I believed her critique wasn't
about the work, but about me. Maybe I was missing something essential that other
writers had. But looking back, I see that comment differently now. Maybe my main
character had no soul because I had been too afraid to give him one, afraid of what
would spill out if I stopped guarding every word.
I began to stop performing the version of myself I thought belonged to the grad school.
Instead of racing to produce something "impressive," I permitted myself to slow down.
I started journaling again, not for a workshop, not for publication, just to remind
myself what it felt like to write without consequence. It was strange how quickly that
shift changed things. When I stopped trying to sound like someone who knew
everything, I started to sound like myself. The pages were still messy, still uncertain,
but they were mine.
Maybe writing wasn't about becoming "good" so much as becoming honest. Grad
school was full of people who were constantly producing new stories, new essays,
new wins. I learned, eventually, that I wasn't built that way. The truth is, I don't know
if I'll ever feel fully "good at this." Maybe writing, and life, really, isn't about certainty
at all. It's about staying curious long enough to see what emerges when you stop
proving and start listening.
14.At the beginning of her grad school, the author
A. lost hope of success
B. felt unsure of herself
C. failed in a competition
D. was jealous of her classmates
15.How did the author feel when hearing Marilynne's words
A. Embarrassed and guilty.
B. Hurt and self-doubting.
C. Disappointed and confused.
D. Discouraged and regretful.
16.The author made some changes by
A. redirecting her focus
B. revising her writing style
C. rebuilding relationships
D. reshaping main characters
17.What can we learn from the passage
A. Good things come to those who wait.
B. Adversity reveals genius; ease blocks it.
C. Tune your guitar and the music will speak.
D. A skilled sailor can navigate through any storm.
C
For a long time, many climate scientists held onto an optimistic belief: when the
impacts of global warming became undeniable, people and governments would finally
act decisively. Perhaps a devastating hurricane, heatwave or flood, or even a cascade
of disasters, would make the severity of the problem impossible to ignore, spurring
(推动) large-scale action. Yet, even as disasters mount, climate change remains low
on voters' priority lists and policy responses are tepid.
This widespread inaction is often blamed on political or structural forces. But decades
of psychological research has suggested something deeper is at play: the human brain
tends to overlook slow, creeping change. This is known as the boiling frog effect—
where subtle changes fail to trigger alarm, resulting in indifference despite worsening
conditions; like a frog in a pan of slowly warming water.
In 2020, we were researching climate impacts in Princeton, New Jersey. The area
doesn't face wildfires or droughts, but we realized it had lost something: winter ice
skating. For decades, you could skate on Lake Carnegie every year. Now, it rarely
freezes over. Through conversations with long-term residents and digging into local
newspaper archives (档案 ), we discovered there had been a sharp decline in ice
skating on the lake over the past century, and a sense of loss over it. This interruption
to a winter tradition suddenly made climate change in Princeton feel real. Tangible.
Personal.
That led us to ask: could binary (二元的) climate data—yes-or-no indicators such as
"lake freeze" vs. "no freeze" make people sit up and take notice better than gradual
temperature rise
We tested this idea in a series of experiments. Participants were shown one of two
graphs: one displayed a fictional town's rising winter temperatures; the other showed
whether its lake froze each year. Importantly, both graphs captured the same
underlying climate trend. But people's responses were very different. People who saw
the binary "froze or not" graphs consistently perceived climate change as having a
greater impact than those who saw the temperature graphs. In follow-up studies with
data taken from lakes in North America and Europe, we saw the same result. When
climate impacts were presented in these kinds of black-and-white terms, people took
them more seriously.
Why We found that binary data creates an illusion of sudden shifts. When people
saw a series of winters when the lake froze, followed by years when it didn't, they
perceived a clear "before" and "after", even though the change was gradual. Climate
change isn't just a physical crisis. It is also a psychological problem. Unless we
communicate it in ways that feel real, we risk tuning out the warning signs until it is
too late.
18.Why does the author mention the boiling frog effect
A. To criticize the inaction.
B. To explain the climate change.
C. To illustrate a psychological state.
D. To justify climate scientists' belief.
19.What can be inferred about the research in Princeton
A. It generated an assumption.
B. It restored a winter tradition.
C. It improved climate solutions.
D. It revealed people's indifference.
20.According to the author, what is more likely to motivate action on climate change
A. Old black-and-white pictures.
B. Extreme weather statistics.
C. Then-and-now images.
D. Temperature graphs.
D
A newly published report claims "AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from
human-written poetry and is rated more favorably", which has drawn massive
attention to this criticized yet beloved art form. The Washington Post definitively
declared that "ChatGPT is a poet". Others more closely echoed the age-old claims that
poetry is dead, or as one publication offered, "Yield, Shakespeare."
Reports like these are important to investigate as they have practical and potentially
serious consequences. They can strengthen what some argue is the art form's nugacity,
which in turn helps fuel arguments that discredit the importance of teaching poetry
and supporting passionate poets, as well as nonprofit poetry organizations and
publishers dedicated to their work.
The authors of the new report, scientists Brian Porter and Edouard Machery, entered
their experiments with the premise (前提) that a poem is something to be solved and
poetry, a competition to win.
In the first of the scientists' two experiments, they directed ChatGPT to produce texts
that imitated poems by 10 poets. Participants were assigned a poem and asked to
determine the origin of the work: poet or bot. The scientists reveal that the study
participants "are non-expert readers of poetry" and "found the task very difficult, and
were at least in part answering randomly".
Their second experiment asked a different, smaller group of participants to review
poems authored by poets and ChatGPT texts imitating poems and then assess them
based on some characteristics. Participants rated the bot's texts higher. However, it
should be noted that, among the characteristics, only rhyme is a specific and distinct
formal element, making it easily recognizable. Rhyme, therefore, as in the previous
experiment, could have influenced results favorably in the direction of ChatGPT.
Porter and Machery propose that their participants' apparent preference for
algorithmically-generated texts is because they were "generally more accessible" to
those who may not have the time or interest for the in-depth analysis demanded by the
poetry of human poets. This reveals a questionable assumption about poetry. It's true
that reading poems takes time. In fact, one of the art form's benefits is that it slows
readers down and invites them to another place for a few moments. But it's not true
that poems sweepingly "demand" "in-depth analysis".
The scientists' second experiment also confirmed that participants judged texts more
negatively when it was revealed they were actually produced by ChatGPT. They draw
the conclusion that this means there is "a mismatch between readers' expectations and
reality". This could instead be something more fundamental: a confirmation of a
desire to be led by a human guide, to be able to imagine the hand, to take comfort in
another being, to know soul.
21.What is probably the author's attitude towards the reports mentioned in Paragraph
1
A. Tolerant.
B. Humble.
C. Pessimistic.
D. Critical.
22.What does the underlined word "nugacity" in Paragraph 2 probably mean
A. Unreliability.
B. Insignificance.
C. Contradictoriness.
D. Backwardness.
23.As for the experiments, the author thinks that
A. participants' desire for easy reading affected the result
B. experimenters' capability to judge poems was shown
C. the assessment features weakened the credibility
D. deep analysis of poems should serve as the basis
24.What would be the best title for the passage
A. The Power of AI's Words: Can Humans Grasp
B. Human Poetry: The Last Art in the Age of AI
C. AI-generated Poetry: A New Renaissance
D. Voices of the Heart; Can AI Bridge
第二节（共 5 小题；每小题 2 分，共 10 分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题
卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。
In 2025, I averaged 9,370 steps a day. My daily aim Ten thousand steps. Because of
goals.
_______25_______In the 1960s, a company in Japan invented an early step counter.
Because the Japanese character for "10,000" looks like a person walking, the
company called its device the 10,000-Step Meter.
Step-counting devices such as watches and phones came into widespread use only in
the past two decades. Once they did, scientists needed to follow users for long periods
to learn anything meaningful about the number of steps that affects life span,
cardiovascular (心血管的) fitness or anything else._______26_______
The current physical activity guidelines published in 2018 were still based on time not
on steps._______27_______Nearly all were based on self-reports of physical activity,
a measure that is not exact. It's the equivalent of guessing how much time I spent
walking last year.
Now evidence about steps is starting to come in. In 2023, experts published one of the
first studies specifically investigating the actual effects of meeting the 10,000-step
goal. Several other large studies followed. The result Some movement is good, and
more is better, but the benefits level off at some point.
Your personal peak depends on your age. People younger than 60 should indeed walk
8,000 to 10,000 steps a day to get the best benefits. People older than 60 show the
most benefit between 6,000 and 8,000 steps. The difference is energy consumption.
Walking for 60 minutes at 3.3 miles an hour and running for 30 minutes at six miles
an hour use the same amount of energy. Kraus, an epidemiologist, says: "Per step,
older people expend more energy." _______28_______
Newer studies are moving beyond death rates to ask questions about the way steps
may contribute to diabetes prevention or help to control blood pressure and weight.
_______29_______Full results are not in yet, so Kraus' advice in the meantime is:
"Tailor your steps according to what you are trying to achieve and according to who
you are."
A. And until recently, that hadn't happened.
B. If they get 10,000 steps, it seems like a good goal.
C. Experts reviewed hundreds of studies on exercise and health.
D. The goal, after all, is not just to live longer but to live healthier.
E. As a result, they need fewer steps to achieve the same benefits.
F. Yet the concept of taking 10,000 steps a day to maintain health is rooted not in
science.
G. Studies indicate that a decade of consistently hitting that goal translates to about an
extra year and a half of life.
高二英语第 8 页 (共 10 页)
第三部分 书面表达（共两节，32 分）
第一节（共 4 小题；第 30、31 小题各 2 分，第 32 小题 3 分，第 33 小题 5
分，共 12 分）
阅读下面短文，根据题目要求用英文回答问题。请在答题卡指定区域作答。
The distinction between sympathy and empathy is such a fine line in a dictionary. But
there is a huge difference in real life.
It was an icy morning; the road was very slippery. I had seen two cyclists fall off their
bicycles already. "They should be more careful," I thought. Then I braked (刹车), the
world turned upside down, and suddenly there were three splatted cyclists. Some
people came to help, holding hands and taking small careful steps so they didn't fall
over, too. One woman lifted the bike, lifted me, and got me safe. She told me to go to
hospital.
"I'm fine," I gasped, holding my ribs (肋骨) tight. I eventually cracked three days later
when I woke up barely able to move.
The doctor-a not unbusy man-gave me a quick exam, diagnosed me, and then with
less drama than I would have liked told me there was nothing to be done and I would
be in a lot of pain for a while.
Over the next few weeks, I came to understand the complaints of older people. Putting
on my socks was a victory. If I dropped something, it stayed dropped. I came to
understand why disabled restrooms have handles. Coughs were extreme suffering.
There was a three-week period in February when I knew exactly how many times I
sneezed. Sometimes, my wife laughed when I struggled with ordinary daily chores. I
never laughed, I pointed out, when years before she hurt her knee skiing and hopped
along on crutches (拐杖) like a lame duck.
But beneath the joke, something shifted. I have always been sympathetic to people in
long-term pain, but it took falling off my bike to be empathetic. Even then, I still
cannot say I truly understand it, as there was one crucial difference: I knew my pain
would come to an end. Many people do not have that comfort.
30.What happened to the author on an icy morning
31.What did the doctor conclude after examining the author
32.Please decide which part is false in the following statement, then underline it and
explain why.
The author came to understand the complaints of older people when he hopped along
on crutches.
33.Do you think we can truly understand the pain of others Why or why not (In
about 40 words)
第二节（20 分）
假设你是红星中学高二学生李华。上周你校举办了一年一度的 "学生节"
(Student Festival)，你的外国好友 Jim 对此很感兴趣，来信向你询问。请你用英
文给他回信，内容包括：
1."学生节" 主题及内容；
2.你参与的情况及感受。
注意：1. 词数 100 左右；
2. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Jim,
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
(请务必将作文写在答题卡指定区域内)

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