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北京昌平区2025-2026学年第二学期高二年级期末质量抽测英语（第二组）
一、完形填空
It was a rainy evening. The supermarket was crowded with people trying to finish their shopping quickly. Among them was Maria, a young mother of two. Her shoulders ached after her shift at a local café and she was 1.____. Her children, Ethan and Lily, stayed close beside her as she pushed a cart filled with basic groceries and a small box of chocolate Ethan had 2.____ her to get.
Maria had carefully counted her money before entering the store. Money was 3.____ ever since her husband lost his job. At the counter, Maria kept her head down as the cashier scanned the items. “$47.25,” the cashier said. A wave of 4.____ washed over Maria. She had only $40. “I’m sorry,” Maria whispered, “Can you please 5.____ the chocolate and maybe the apples ” Ethan’s face fell, but he didn’t complain. Lily whispered, “Mommy, it’s okay.” Maria could feel the eyes, some impatient, some sympathetic. 6.____ rose in her eyes.
Just then, a man in a damp work jacket stepped forward. “I’ve got it,” he said gently, placing a $20 bill on the counter. Maria tried to 7.____, but the man smiled kindly. “I’ve been where you are. Someone once helped me, and now I’m paying it forward.” After the payment was 8.____, Maria thanked the stranger through tears. Ethan whispered, “Mommy, he’s like a superhero!”
Years later, Maria often told her children the story of the stranger who paid for groceries. Lily would often buy extra food to 9.____, and Ethan grew up to volunteer at shelters. The act of 10.____ that began with one simple gesture had spread through their family, touching countless lives.
1. A．exhausted B．confused C．satisfied D．pleased
2. A．encouraged B．allowed C．begged D．urged
3. A．easy B．extra C．safe D．tight
4. A．relief B．shame C．loneliness D．curiosity
5. A．put in B．sell down C．take off D．pull over
6. A．Doubts B．Tears C．Light D．Surprise
7. A．complain B．refuse C．hide D．persuade
8. A．settled B．returned C．cancelled D．delayed
9. A．donate B．store C．process D．consume
10. A．devotion B．patience C．courage D．kindness
二、语法填空
Passage 1
Scientists believe birdwatching benefits the brain like learning a musical instrument, because both involve learning new skills, 11.____ adds new pathways and connections in your brain. Dr. Eric Wing said birdwatching combines the ability 12.____ (identify) things with a sensitivity to movement and pattern detection. Other benefits include human-nature connection and 13.____ (build) awareness of the environment. Birdwatchers say their hobby is good for their social life because they meet many like-minded people.
Passage 2
Leaving behind everything familiar is never easy. When I moved to a big city purely 14.____ a new job, I felt like I was stepping into a world of endless possibilities and uncertainties. The city buzzed with life, and its streets 15.____ (fill) with stories. I navigated crowded subways, 16.____ (explore) lively neighborhoods, and slowly started to settle into the local life there. That move wasn’t just a change of address-it was a profound (深刻的) journey of self-discovery.
Passage 3
A new trend, 17.____ (humorous) called “Becoming Chinese”, is gaining popularity on all social media platforms. It 18.____ (focus) on a comfort-driven lifestyle rooted in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Chinese customs. This trend is a clear signal of 19.____ many people now desire: a broader change. In a fast-paced world, the Chinese way of life offers a sense of order and inner peace. As personal stresses grow, people are looking beyond borders for a 20.____ (healthy) lifestyle than their own stressful routines.
三、阅读理解
A
The Asia-Europe Foundation Young Leaders Summit (ASEFYLS) is a cross-cultural platform for Asian and European youth. It aims to train participants’ self, team and societal leadership, develop their creativity and intercultural competence, and inspire them to contribute to social progress.
Requirements
To qualify for the programme, applicants must be individuals aged 16 to 30, including students and young professionals, and citizens of some Asian and European countries. Additionally, they are expected to be actively engaged in youth organizations or student associations and command good oral and written English for effective cross-cultural communication. Qualified candidates can submit applications via the official “APPLY NOW” link before the deadline on August 12, 2026, as late applications will not be accepted.
Benefits
● Receive professional training on future thinking and practical leadership skills.
● Work with peers from diverse cultural backgrounds to improve intercultural understanding.
● Attend lectures given by senior managers from top international companies.
● Gain chances to join global youth events and share creative ideas publicly.
Programme Overview
The 2026 ASEFYLS training centres on “Anticipatory Leadership”. This leadership style guides young people to analyse social trends, notice potential changes and make adaptive plans for a more sustainable future. The whole programme runs from August to November, combining online learning and offline practical tasks. Participants will attend two weekly online training sessions from August 19 to October 19, spending around four hours per week on study, along with flexible self-paced individual tasks. In the action phase, all participants are required to organize local sharing events to put theoretical knowledge into practice. Outstanding participants will also have access to an on-site training programme held in Norway.
21. To apply for the programme, participants are required to ________.
A．possess professional experience in Europe
B．show leadership in student organizations
C．register through official offline channels
D．master both spoken and written English
22. What benefits can participants gain
A．Practice-driven creative ideas.
B．Various general professional skills.
C．Cross-cultural teamwork experiences.
D．Working chances with senior managers.
23. The 2026 ASEFYLS program is designed to enable the youth to ________.
A．solve current social problems
B．design on-site training courses
C．develop forward-looking leadership
D．complete self-paced individual tasks
B
“I want to be a writer.” This had been my answer to every discussion with the adults about what I would do when I grew up. Bearing this goal in mind, I signed up for a journalism class, hoping to gain some valuable experience. Despite my love for writing, I found myself uninterested in the subject. When I thought of writing, I imagined profound poetry and exciting plot lines. Journalism required a brief style and orderly structure, and I found the assignments dull. That class shook my confidence as a writer.
Despite my doubts, I decided I couldn’t give up journalism without trying it outside the classroom. The following year, I applied to be a staff reporter for our school newspaper. I hoped this would help me become more creative, rather than merely writing articles that my teacher assigned. To my surprise, my time on staff was worlds away from what I experienced in the journalism class. I valued the freedom I had to explore and learn, and to write more independently than I could in a classroom.
Although I enjoyed working for the school newspaper immediately, reporting also pushed me outside of my comfort zone. I am a shy person, and speaking with people I did not know scared me. During my first interview, I met with the basketball coach to prepare for a story about the team’s recent success. As I approached his office, I felt everything from my toes to my tongue freeze into a solid block, and I could hardly get out my opening questions. Fortunately, the coach was very kind and supported me through the conversation, giving me the confidence to keep going.
Throughout that year, I grew to love writing for our school newspaper. I realized that journalism gave me a window into seeing beyond my own experiences. I learned that news writing, though different from the “writing” I had imagined, could also tell exciting stories about everyday events. Becoming a writer might be difficult, but this process of uncovering stories was as rewarding as I’d always imagined writing could be.
24. How did the author feel about the journalism class
A．Disappointed.
B．Inspired.
C．Embarrassed.
D．Relieved.
25. Why did the author decide to join the school newspaper
A．To regain her confidence in writing.
B．To improve her news writing skills.
C．To try real journalism beyond classes.
D．To complete articles the teacher assigned.
26. What did the author get from her first interview
A．The realization that kindness is necessary.
B．A new skill to overcome her nervousness.
C．A better understanding of news writing.
D．The courage to continue with reporting.
27. What can we learn from this passage
A．Think twice before you speak.
B．He who laughs last laughs best.
C．Failure teaches more than success.
D．The path reveals itself as one walks.
C
Is the widespread presence of AI taking away one of life’s most reliable small pleasures — the daily joy of an “Aha!” moment What might happen if we outsource an increasing amount of our idea generation to AI before thinking it through ourselves
Research strongly suggests that the dopamine (多巴胺) system is involved when we have those sudden small inspirations. A study found that during tests, the midbrain areas responsible for releasing dopamine showed the highest activity when participants solved problems designed to activate an “Aha” moment. But “Aha!” moments don’t just feel good. They function as an internal “selection signal”. When a solution strikes us, the accompanying feeling of accuracy and satisfaction helps capture our attention. The brain then flags the idea as important to prioritize certain ideas for learning and future use. Several studies show that sudden insight, and even “D’oh!” moments — cousins of the “Aha!” moment experienced after failing to arrive at a conclusion and having it come to light — improve memory for information presented around the same time. Brain scans reveal they restructure related neural (神经的) networks, and those changes are associated with how easily people recall information. That “Aha!” moment may be a mechanism for labelling discoveries as worth learning.
Let’s get back to AI. If we increasingly turn to large language models (LLMs) for even our smallest problems, are we missing out on an opportunity to learn, remember or perhaps something greater still Cambridge neuroscientist Hannah Critchlow shared a fascinating study that compared the neural activity of 18 essay writers either using brain power alone, with the help of a search engine or with ChatGPT. AI users showed lower brain activity, struggled to accurately quote their own work and consistently underperformed neurally, linguistically and behaviourally. Critchlow also points out that non-competitive group discussions make people’s brainwaves harmonize — a unique advantage of human insights that AI cannot match, which predicts protection against dementia (痴呆), and is one of the most significant factors shaping teenagers’ ability to form bonds with and learn from peers.
Perhaps paradoxically (矛盾地), new tools like LLMs will help us appreciate that fundamental to our species’ success is our ability to connect and communicate with others. We learn from them and allow ideas to be shared between minds, which brings us satisfying “Aha!” moments and enables us to solve problems together and benefit as a species.
28. What is Paragraph 2 mainly about
A．How our brain draws attention to important ideas.
B．How “Aha!” moments bring mental benefits to people.
C．What influences the formation of people’s neural networks.
D．Why sudden inspirations excite our dopamine system greatly.
29. What can be inferred from Critchlow’s research
A．Writing with AI affects people’s general performance.
B．Teens who use AI fail to form peer bonds effectively.
C．Competition weakens people’s ability to harmonize.
D．Neural activity levels determine the writing quality.
30. What does the author mainly do in this passage
A．Justify the widespread application of AI.
B．Highlight the benefits of “Aha!” moments.
C．Advocate human connection over AI reliance.
D．Illustrate brain changes from sudden inspiration.
D
Resilience, the ability of people or things to recover quickly, has become one of our favourite terms of praise. We praise resilient children, workers and communities. It sounds humane. But, more often than not, it does something else: it lets the person doing the praising back away.
When someone calls a person resilient, they reassure themselves that whatever happened didn’t really change anything — not that person, and certainly not themselves. It’s a get-out-of-jail-free card. In engineering, resilience has a precise meaning: how quickly a system returns to baseline after a disturbance. Ecology borrowed the term, but in the 1970s, the ecologist C. S. Holling pushed the concept in a different direction. He argued that real ecological resilience wasn’t about springing back, but about persistence: the capacity to absorb disturbance, reorganize and continue.
That distinction mattered, but it didn’t travel well. Outside ecology, the simpler engineering version won out. What moved into public life wasn’t Holling’s complexity, but a safer idea — resilience stripped of its teeth, reduced to endurance. This is why resilience has such cultural appeal. Calling someone resilient in the endurance sense sounds kind. But communicating kindness without taking any responsibility is just a way to make yourself feel more comfortable. The word “resilient” reassures the speaker that they’ve done their part.
Endurance is getting through; recovery is getting better. We confuse the two, and this confusion has consequences. Whereas endurance can be demanded of someone, recovery requires support. Glorifying (歌颂) endurance shifts attention away from systems and places expectations on individuals. When we praise resilience, we often become a shelter for the broken institutions around the person who is enduring harm.
There’s also a quiet statistical trick contained in resilience talk: survivorship bias. Modern culture celebrates the people who make it through hardship and treats them as proof that the system works. Too often, we fail to count those who didn’t have the support, safety or luck to endure at all. Praise replaces accountability. I see this in academia, where we focus on the “winners” but ignore the brilliant researchers pushed out by a shift in funding. By focusing only on those who reached the top, we accept a filter (筛选) that selects for the fortunate and calls it excellence.
The language we use matters. When we tell people to be resilient, we ask them to stay the same. When we talk about recovery, we invite change. If I break my leg, no one expects me to bounce back. They expect me to rest and rebuild. We should offer the same grace for the invisible injuries — the social, emotional or moral ones.
31. What does the phrase “stripped of its teeth” underlined in Paragraph 3 most probably mean
A．Strengthened by sharp criticism.
B．Made less powerful or effective.
C．Given a more complex meaning.
D．Combined with cultural concepts.
32. Why does the author mention “survivorship bias”
A．To show that praise of endurance removes blame from systems.
B．To argue that our view of resilience and success is changed by it.
C．To emphasize that individual effort is the key to achieving excellence.
D．To reveal that good fortune plays a decisive role in surviving hardship.
33. How does the author develop the passage
A．Problem — Cause — Effect — Solution
B．Claim — Evidence — Argument — Conclusion
C．Example — Concept — Exception — Implication
D．Phenomenon — Definition — Analysis — Appeal
34. Which would be the best title for the passage
A．Resilience VS. Endurance: An Ignored Fact
B．True Resilience Is Not About Bouncing Back
C．Endurance VS. Recovery: A Critical Distinction
D．True Endurance Helps Us Overcome Hardships
四、七选五
So, you sent a text. No response. Now you’re stuck in the ultimate tough decision: Should you send a follow-up or try to play it cool
35.____ Double texting occurs. Sometimes we send a second, or even more messages, before the person replies to our previous one. Examples include confirming things: “Hey, just making sure we’re still on for later” or messy streams of messages like “Why aren’t you responding Do you hate me ”
We do this for many reasons. Some are good reasons: making plans, waiting for key information or handling time-sensitive matters. The other person may be distracted, have a dead phone, or miss your message. 36.____
Double texting is acceptable in certain situations — for close friends, urgent updates, or adding forgotten details. But you must avoid seeming pushy or demanding. One follow-up is enough. It’s unwise to double text someone busy or someone who already leaves you on read with short replies. 37.____ You look desperate, create misunderstandings, and risk unnecessary conflict.
“If you’re double texting, you likely are also putting more into the relationship than the other person,” Psychologist Sabrina Romanoff notes. Often, people tend to double text to receive more from other people. 38.____ Ultimately double texting is problematic because you’ll never know what others would do without your prompting (催促). If you hold back, either they never reply, which saves you from wasting any further time or energy, or respond on their own genuinely showing how they feel about you and their real interest.
Here’s how to double text without coming off as impatient, or needy: Ask yourself first whether you have given them enough time to respond. People get busy, distracted, or simply don’t have the mental energy to text back right away. 39.____ If a person consistently takes a long time to reply, that’s also a sign to adjust your expectations. Remember, no response is a response.
A．Overdoing it has the opposite effect.
B．Unless it’s urgent, wait and show patience.
C．However, it only pushes them further away.
D．We know the feeling and we’ve all definitely been there.
E．Many people fear that a double text will make them appear eager.
F．But mostly, it comes from anxiety or insecurity, as we seek reassurance.
G．Therefore, it’s wise to consider both timing and content when following up.
五、阅读表达
When you truly care about the planet, inspiration can come from the most unexpected places. For fifteen-year-old Evan Budz, it came in the form of a turtle swimming smoothly through the water on a camping trip, creating an idea that would lead to an award-winning robot.
But Evan didn’t just want to build any robot; he wanted one that wouldn’t harm the very ecosystems it was meant to protect. Unlike traditional underwater technologies, which often create very high-pressure water streams that disturb marine life, his bionic turtle moves silently, copying natural swimming patterns to gather data without damaging sensitive habitats.
To create his bionic turtle, Budz studied how sea turtles swim by watching videos and talked with experts at his local aquarium. He learnt that their front flippers (鳍状肢) push them forward, while the smaller back flippers help them change directions. Using his 3D design software, he created a robot that copies these movements.
The robot has four flippers just like the real turtles and has a “body” for housing its electronic components, which include a microcomputer. This runs AI models to detect environmental threats and record data. The robot also has a front camera for “seeing” its surroundings, along with additional sensors outside to help guide itself, offer depth control, and check for ecological damage like microplastics and bleached coral (白化珊瑚).
Evan tested the robot in his grandparents’ backyard pool and later in Lake Ontario. It can swim for up to eight hours per charge on a battery, though it also has a solar panel that can keep it going for even longer periods, at about the same speed as real turtles. In tests, it correctly identified coral damage 96% of the time. His dream is to send out many of these quiet, gentle robots around the world to protect underwater life.
40. What inspired Evan to invent the robot
________________________________________________________________
41. How was Evan’s bionic turtle different from earlier technologies
________________________________________________________________
42. Please decide which part is false in the following statement, then underline it and explain why.
Budz’s bionic turtle, equipped with a microcomputer, camera and sensors, can record data and help relieve underwater ecosystem damage.
________________________________________________________________
43. How can you put your ideas into practice as Evan did (In about 40 words)
________________________________________________________________
六、书信写作
44. 假设你是红星中学高二学生李华。你的好友Jim看到了你分享的“社区邻里日”(Community Neighbour Day) 的活动照片，对此很感兴趣，发来邮件想了解相关情况。请你用英文给他回复，内容包括：
1. 介绍你参与的社区活动；
2. 你的感受。
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
参考答案
完形填空：1.A 2.C 3.D 4.B 5.C 6.B 7.B 8.A 9.A 10.D
语法填空：11.which 12.to identify 13.building 14.for 15.were filled 16.exploring 17.humorously 18.focuses 19.what 20.healthier
阅读理解：21.D 22.C 23.C 24.A 25.C 26.D 27.D 28.B 29.A 30.C 31.B 32.A 33.D 34.B
七选五：35.D 36.F 37.A 38.C 39.B
阅读表达参考答句
40. Watching a turtle swim smoothly during a camping trip inspired him.
41. It swims silently like real turtles without disturbing marine habitats while collecting data.
42. False part: help relieve underwater ecosystem damage. The robot only detects damage instead of repairing it.
43. First observe real life to get inspiration, then learn related knowledge and design prototypes to test my ideas constantly.
书信范文
Dear Jim,
I’m glad you’re interested in our Community Neighbour Day.
I took part in two meaningful activities. First, we held a flea market to exchange used books and toys with neighbours. Later, we planted saplings together in the community garden. We chatted and shared daily stories while working.
This activity brought us closer. I truly felt the warmth of neighbourhood and hope we can hold such activities more often.
Yours,
Li Hua

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