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2025-2026学年高二下学期期中考试英语试题
一、阅读理解
A
Stanford CARE Explorers: AI × Precision Health High School Program
The program is a dynamic two-week in-person summer experience designed for high school students passionate about improving health outcomes in Asian and Asian American communities and beyond. It is open to applicants of all backgrounds.
Session Dates
·Session One: July 15-26
·Session Two: August 6-17
·Application Deadline: May 23
Curriculum
Our lecturers are field-leading experts and researchers in AI, medicine, and precision health who bring a wealth of knowledge and real-world experience to the program. The curriculum includes:
·Critical health topics impacting Asian communities. Previous topics addressed include lung cancer, cardiovascular disease, digestive cancers, and more.
·Using AI to improve understanding of precision health data.
·Basics of statistical data analysis.
·Leadership and teamwork skills. Previous topics addressed include team building activities and group project work.
Application and qualification
To participate in the program, students must:
·Be a rising high school sophomore, junior, or senior.
·Be 14 years old or older.
Fees and Costs
·Application Fee: $49
·Program Fee: $3,200 (Housing and transportation not included)
A limited pool of need-based financial aid is available to help cover the program fee. To be considered, applicants must demonstrate financial need by submitting a brief letter from a high school administrator or community leader. Detailed instructions will be provided on the program application. All applications for financial aid are subject to assessment. Submitting a financial aid request will not impact an applicant’s admission decision.
1. What does the text aim to do
A．To promote teaching. B．To attract participants.
C．To support a proposal. D．To address health issues.
2. Which is one competence the program is designed to develop
A．Collaboration abilities. B．Language fluency.
C．Healthcare management. D．AI programming skills.
3. What can be learned about the program fee
A．It should be paid before applying. B．It covers accommodation and travel.
C．It can be reduced under certain conditions. D．It is returnable in case of early withdrawal.
B
For more than thirty years, Vickie Hardin Woods organized streets, balanced budgets, and turned complicated plans into workable maps. When she retired at 61, she feared the hard-earned identity of “city planner” would disappear the moment she stepped away from her office and co-workers. What would she be without deadlines and department meetings However, she did not remain in fear, but sought renewal in action.
Her choice was unexpected for someone diagnosed with mild memory loss the year before: She would bake one pie and give it away every day for a year. She needed to prove she was still mentally capable. Using fruit from local markets, she filled her kitchen with the smell of cinnamon and warm butter. Measuring flour, folding dough (面团), and timing the oven became her quiet proof that her mind was still sharp.
After making full preparations, she boarded a plane to California and baked a lemon pie in her brother’s kitchen. It was for her 88-year-old aunt, who had once taken her in during a painful chapter of her youth. “The perfect first pie,” she later said. Soon peach pies were delivered to old classmates, chocolate cream pies to a niece with newborn twins, and apple pies to former co-workers. Once, she even handed a pie to a homeless man outside a mall, which he shared with his friends, laughing in disbelief.
Word spread quickly. Strangers began greeting her as “the pie lady”. Some recipients whispered, “How did you know I need this today ” In those moments, she discovered something sweeter than dessert: connection.
Just as city planning had once brought order to chaos, baking did the same. Twelve years later, she still creates — writing daily letters, painting the changing sky, teaching her grandchildren to roll dough. Through flour and fruit, she learned a lasting truth: Identity is not a title but the courage to keep creating, giving, and beginning again.
4. What initially troubled Woods about retirement
A．Identity loss. B．Economic uncertainty.
C．Work-life imbalance. D．Social disconnection.
5. Why did Woods choose to bake pies
A．To relieve her physical pain. B．To reach her extended family.
C．To confirm her mental ability. D．To earn community recognition.
6. What effect did giving away pies have on Woods
A．It connected her with charity. B．It strengthened her social ties.
C．It brought many new visitors to the store. D．It won many new followers online.
7. What can be a suitable title for the text
A．The Sad Fall of an Old Bookstore B．Sweet Memories of Old Paper Books
C．A Traditional Bookstore’s Road to Survival
D．The Power of Giving: The Pie Lady’s New Life
C
Have you ever obeyed the suggestions of a digital writing assistant to replace a word or restructure a sentence Before the appearance of digital tools, you’d probably have turned to a dictionary for the same assistance.
Dictionaries enable us to write not with fail-safe convenience but with originality and a point of view. While AI assistants produce phrases and statements so writers don’t have to think them up, dictionaries provide us with the knowledge to use language ourselves in expressive and potentially infinite (无穷的) ways. They place choice and authority literally in human hands, forcing us to discover how we want to explain ourselves and our ideas to the world.
The abundance of digital writing assistants gives greater urgency to debates about what a dictionary should be. In 1946, George Orwell described good writing as “picking out words for the sake of their meaning,” a practice that dictionaries facilitate while digital writing programs stifle. Writers consulting a dictionary make a choice, while writers guided by an app have their choices made for them. The digital-native approach delivers hands-off, derivative (衍生的) communication. The other requires leafing through pages without knowing exactly where you’ll end up. Without dictionaries to provide us with a guide to English’s potential, writing that way is nearly impossible.
Our ability to express ourselves is critical — it helps us define who we are. Dictionaries aid us in achieving this: They categorize our unique ways of thinking through language. I’m a Canadian; my feeling of pride in my native land is enhanced by small verbal Canadianisms like “eaves trough” or “serviette”, which are well-documented in dictionaries but rarely used by AI chatbots, for the most part.
As digital writing extends deeper into our lives and minds, we need dictionaries more than ever. Abandoning dictionaries and embracing mechanized writing would weaken our capacity for collective identity quite as much as the ability to express ourselves.
8. What might be a distinct feature of dictionaries according to the author
A．They promise fail-safe phrases.
B．They possess academic authority.
C．They facilitate creative writing.
D．They provide ready-made expressions.
9. What does the underlined word “stifle” in paragraph 3 probably mean
A．Favor. B．Revise. C．Observe. D．Discourage.
10. Why does the author mention “eaves trough” and “serviette” in paragraph 4
A．To show how AI aids us in expressing.
B．To indicate the weakness of dictionaries.
C．To celebrate the diversity of Canadian English.
D．To illustrate how language use affects identity.
11. What can be a suitable title for the text
A．Why Keep Your Dictionary
B．How to Deal with Digital Writing
C．Who Uses Writing Assistants
D．What to Expect from Dictionaries
D
Why does “bouba” sound round and “kiki” sound spiky (尖锐的) This perception, known as “bouba-kiki” effect, is reliable all over the world, and for at least a century, scientists have considered it a clue to the origin of language, theorizing that maybe our ancestors built their first words upon these associations between sound and shape. But a new study published in Science adds an unexpected finding: baby chickens make these same pairings, suggesting that the link to human language may not be so unique.
The study was led by Maria Loconsole, a comparative psychologist at the University of Padua. She and her colleagues placed chicks in front of two panels: one featured a flowerlike shape with gently rounded curves; the other had a spiky shape like a cartoon explosion. They then played recordings of humans saying either “bouba” or “kiki” and observed the birds’ behavior. When the chicks heard “bouba,” 80 percent of them approached the round shape first and spent an average of more than three minutes exploring it compared with an average of just under one minute spent exploring the spiky shape. When the chicks heard “kiki,” the opposite occurred.
One long-standing theory that these associations are inspired by the shape your mouth makes when you say each word can now be ruled out, since the chicks showed the effect despite being unable to speak. Instead the “bouba-kiki” effect may originate from the physical properties of objects themselves. When round objects hit the ground or roll, they typically produce more continuous, low-frequency sounds than spiky ones. A built-in grasp of those dynamics, linking sight and sound, could help newborn animals quickly make sense of their environment, possibly to locate food or avoid predators (食肉动物).
The “bouba-kiki” effect may have played a role in the emergence of language. But for chickens, this same tendency seems to serve a more evolutionary purpose. “Even if language is unique to humans,” Loconsole says, “that doesn’t mean that it comes from an ability that is unique to humans.”
12. What does the new study focus on
A．The origin of human language. B．Sound-shape connections in chicks.
C．Animals’ recognition of shapes. D．Brain-behavior relationships of birds.
13. In what way do the chicks respond differently to the two sounds
A．Sound localization. B．Reaction speed.
C．Exploration preference. D．Matching accuracy.
14. What is paragraph 3 mainly about concerning the effect
A．Its historical context. B．Its potential application.
C．Its overlooked limitation. D．Its possible explanation.
15. What does Loconsole say about the effect
A．It originated in birds. B．It shows evolutionary tendency.
C．It’s shared across species. D．It’s vital to language emergence.
七选五
It’s easy to give in to the winter hibernation (冬眠) urge — but countless studies have shown that outdoors activity is one of the best ways to reduce your risk of anxiety, depression and seasonal affective disorder (SAD). ___16___ Here’s how to make the best use of our natural health service.
Starting small.
“Sometimes getting out and running 5km was like climbing Everest. It would take me all day just to find the energy to get out,” says Alex Staniforth, a mental health campaigner. ___17___ Try opening a window, sitting by natural light, or bringing nature indoors with plants. When you’re ready, aim for short, achievable goals like a five-minute walk. You don’t need hours. Aiming for regular activity is key.
___18___
Mental health and fitness coach Gareth Jones emphasized that good planning and structure are crucial. “If you know you’re struggling with motivation, laying out all your kit — from your socks all the way up to the food you’re going to take — can be helpful,” he says. “___19___ You might want to get out when you get to the front door — but if you have to go and search for your trainers because they’re lost under the stairs somewhere, you may not feel like going out at all.”
Group support.
Social commitments can also act as motivation for people with depression and anxiety. Having other people around us — whether that’s joining a club or committing to something with a friend — can really help. ___20___ “People are very quick to post their accomplishments on social media, but what you don’t see is the build-up,” says Gareth. “It doesn’t matter where people are now in their lives, they’ve had to work to get there. And you’ll get there too.”
A．A clear goal.
B．A structured approach.
C．However, don’t compare yourself to others.
D．A disorganized life can affect your motivation.
E．Therefore, doctors are encouraging people to go outdoors more.
F．But time in nature isn’t the only cure for mental health problems.
G．If this sounds familiar, remember even small steps can bring benefits.
二、完形填空
A group of senior high school graduates visited their old professor, eager to share postgraduation twists. As they chatted ___21___ in the cozy living room, swapping ambition and frustration stories, the professor ___22___ himself and went to the kitchen. Soon, he returned with a steaming pot of coffee and a tray of various cups.
The cups were of all ___23___ — porcelain, glass, clay; some plain and dull, some ___24___ and exquisitely carved; a few inlaid with sparkling crystals. “Help yourselves to the coffee,” the professor said, eyes twinkling with purpose.
The students ___25___ and picked up the tray, eager to seize the finest cups, each striving for one that ___26___ the rest. Plain, simple ones were left ___27___ on the tray edge, unworthy of notice. With cups filling with coffee in hand, the professor leaned back and spoke.
“I’ve observed something telling,” he said, glancing at their chosen cups. “You all picked out the eye-catching cups, ___28___ the ordinary ones. But the cup itself adds no ___29___ to the coffee. You were so fixed on the container that you barely noticed the coffee’s rich fragrance.”
The students fell silent, ___30___ by his words. The professor continued, “Life is coffee; jobs, wealth and status are ___31___. They are tools to ___32___ life, but cannot alter its ___33___. Fixing gaze on ‘cups’ makes you ___34___ missing life’s genuine joy — the quiet fulfillment that ___35___ our souls.”
He paused, and then added softly, “The happiest don’t have the best of everything. They simply make the best of what they have.” The students nodded, grasping the lesson hidden in a cup of coffee.
21.A．enthusiastically B．coldly C．cautiously D．awfully
22.A．adjusted B．relaxed C．behaved D．excused
23.A．sorts B．depths C．heights D．widths
24.A．awkward B．fancy C．fragile D．faded
25.A．bent down B．gave up on C．crowded around D．turned away from
26.A．outweighed B．matched C．supported D．outshone
27.A．polished B．published C．untouched D．damaged
28.A．cherishing B．dismissing C．advocating D．evaluating
29.A．distinction B．appeal C．significance D．quality
30.A．struck B．confused C．amused D．annoyed
31.A．rewards B．cups C．goals D．dreams
32.A．bear B．waste C．replace D．overlook
33.A．trend B．taste C．essence D．condition
34.A．come across B．hold on to C．end up D．put off
35.A．worries B．disturbs C．empties D．anchors
三、语法填空
As is widely recognized, archaeology serves as ___36___ key to unlocking China’s time-honored civilization. What makes modern Chinese archaeology particularly ___37___ (attract) is its integration with artificial intelligence (AI). AI technologies, many of ___38___ have been independently developed by Chinese research teams, are revolutionizing the way archaeologists work. Not only are AI systems rich ___39___ data analysis capabilities but also they are extremely efficient when ___40___ (apply) to the restoration of cultural relics. ___41___ (help) archaeologists sort through tens of thousands of unearthed fragments in hours, AI has greatly shortened the research cycle and improved the accuracy of restoration.
The application of AI in archaeology has brought far-reaching changes to the field. One remarkable benefit is that the ___42___ (cooperate) between archaeologists and AI experts can break through the limits of traditional manual work. Advanced as foreign AI technologies are, the AI tools ___43___ (develop) by Chinese institutions are tailored to the characteristics of Chinese archaeological sites, indicating they have been functioning ___44___ (effective) in protecting cultural heritage.
With China attaching greater importance to cultural heritage protection, AI archaeology is gaining global attention due to the fact that the international academic community has realized ___45___ great significance it is to combine cutting-edge technology with archaeological research.
四、书信写作
46. 假定你是李华，你设计的机器人在你校举办的“Tech Lights Up Life”创新设计大赛中获奖。请给你的英国好友Alex写封邮件，内容包括：1.作品介绍；2.参赛感受。注意：1. 写作词数应为80个左右；2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Alex,
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Yours,
Li Hua
五、读后续写
47. I’d always dreamed of living close to where I worked. So when I found a small house just around the corner from the school, I jumped at the chance. My mother wasn’t so sure. “Some of your pupils will probably be your neighbours,” she warned. “Your every move will be watched.” I laughed it off. What did I have to hide
But soon I realised she was right. The first weekend after I moved in, we sat outside, enjoying a simple meal, when Mum suddenly paused and tilted her head toward a bedroom window in the house behind mine. A boy’s grin was pressed to the glass. It was Thomas, the liveliest child in my class. He waved as if we were close friends.
After that, the “small town effect” became impossible to ignore. One morning, still in my pyjamas (睡衣) and slippers, I rushed outside to put my bin out, only to notice Amelia standing beside me, neat in her uniform. She smiled brightly and said, “Nice pyjamas, Miss Carter.” My cheeks burned.
At school, the children’s curiosity turned my private life into public entertainment. They asked about my home and my family. I began to feel as if I were living in a glass house.
I tried to set boundaries, but it was easier said than done. And my Dad wasn’t exactly helpful. I returned home one afternoon to find him chatting with Thomas, who was hanging over the fence. My heart sank. I knew my whole class would soon know about my past. “I have an image to maintain!” I told Dad later. He promised to keep quiet, but I could tell he found it funny.
One Saturday morning, I was at the supermarket when my phone rang. A woman’s voice spoke. “Miss Carter, this is Thomas’s mum. Your father’s had a fall in the garden, but he’s with Amelia’s mum and me now. Don’t panic — can you come home ”
I sped home and found Dad looked after by neighbors.
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That evening, Dad left hospital with only a pulled muscle.
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2025-2026第二学期高二期中考试英语答案
第一部分 阅读（共两节，满分50分）
第一节 （共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分）
1-3 BAC 4-7 ACBB 8-11 CDDA 12-15 BCDC
第二节 （共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分）
16-20 EGBDC
第二部分 语言运用（共两节，满分30分）
第一节 （共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
21-25 ADABC 26-30 DCBDA 31-35 BACCD
第二节 （共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
36. a 37. attractive 38. which 39. in 40. applied
41. Helping 42. cooperation 43. developed 44. effectively 45. what
第三部分 写作（共两节，满分40分）
第一节 应用文写作（满分15分）
One possible version:
Dear Alex,
I’m extremely thrilled to share with you the news that my robot, which I designed specifically for the school’s “Tech Lights Up Life” innovation competition, has won an award!
Called “Smart Helper”, my robot is capable of cleaning rooms and watering plants automatically. What makes it truly special is that it is equipped with sensors, without which it couldn’t avoid obstacles, and a timer, by which users are reminded of daily tasks. Had it not been for my teacher’s guidance, this design would never have been possible.
Not only did I gain valuable technical skills during the process, but I also came to realize how important it is to combine creativity with technology. So fulfilling is this journey that I feel more motivated than ever to explore further.
Yours,
Li Hua
第二节 读后续写
I sped home and found Dad looked after by neighbors. Thomas and Amelia stood by anxiously, keeping Dad company and comforting him patiently. They told me they happened to spot Dad falling and immediately called their parents for help. Gratitude flooded my heart as I thanked them repeatedly. Without their timely assistance, the situation could have been much worse. I used to feel annoyed about their constant attention and even blamed them for invading my privacy, but at this moment, all my prejudice melted away completely.
That evening, Dad left hospital with only a pulled muscle. Safe and sound, he kept praising the two warm-hearted kids. I realized those so-called “stares” were never invasion but pure kindness and care. The next day at school, I smiled sincerely at Thomas and Amelia. I no longer tried to keep distant from my students. Instead, I learned to embrace this special neighborhood bond. This experience taught me that true warmth always lies in trivial and ordinary moments around us.

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