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2025-2026学年高一第二学期期末考试英语试题
一、阅读理解
A
The New York City Department of Transportation (NYC DOT) works to ensure safe and fair movement for all New Yorkers and millions of visitors to get around the city. It manages roads, bridges, traffic signals, bike lanes and even the Staten Island Ferry. Part of its service includes operating off-street parking garages and lots across all five boroughs: Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island.
These parking facilities accept quarters, dollar coins, credit cards and the ParkNYC app. Most parking fields do not allow overnight parking, but some garages are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week (24/7).
Parking Rates
Garage Hours First Hour Up to 2 Hours Up to 10 Hours 24-Hour Max Monthly Permit
Delancey & Essex (Manhattan) Open 24/7 $16.00 $24.00 $40.00 $50.00 $600
Jerome-190th Street (Bronx) Open 24/7 $7.00 $10.00 $14.50 $19.50 $250
Bay Ridge (Brooklyn) 8 am ~ 10 pm daily $4.00 $6.75 $12.50 $19.50 $275
Court Square (Queens) Open 24/7 $9.00 $14.00 $20.00 $24.00 $400
Courthouse (Staten Island) 8 am ~ 8 pm daily $5.00 $8.00 $14.00 $20.00 $150
Parking Reservation System
The Parking Reservation System (PRS) website allows the public to reserve parking spaces at garages. Reservations open on the website five days before the first of the month at 10 am. All reservations, including monthly permits, are made for the upcoming month, on a first-come, first-served basis.
Obtaining a reservation does not ensure a parking permit. In order to finalize your reservation, you must pay for the permit at the garage manager’s office no later than the first day of the permit month that you are applying for.
1. What service by NYC DOT is the text mainly about
A．Traffic safety.
B．Off-street parking.
C．City sightseeing.
D．Public transport.
2. Which borough has the highest 12-hour parking fee
A．Manhattan.
B．Staten Island.
C．Brooklyn.
D．Bronx.
3. What should you do to ensure a parking permit
A．Make a reservation on the PRS website.
B．Use ParkNYC app to make a reservation.
C．Pay at the garage manager’s office in time.
D．Find a garage that accepts monthly permits.
B
Their voices rose like a single breath, pure and strong. When music faded, audience stood and cheered. Backstage, I just couldn’t believe we’d come this far.
They now call us the “Little River Flows” — a children’s choir that carries the voice of a thousand hills. I am Wang Xiaoxi, a village music teacher in Midu, Yunnan. My story with the children began here, the “hometown of folk songs,” where melodies had long been whispered but hardly heard in harmony.
Yet things ran opposite to my drive to develop young talents. Local families had no idea what a choir was, thus hesitant to let their kids join. Some children came one week and disappeared the next. Those who stayed failed to read sheet music, not even simple notes. I spent countless hours starting from scratch.
An unexpected hand came when Jin Zixuan, a conductor from Peking University, decided to step in. He traveled from Beijing to Midu every single month, finding each kid’s vocal range, teaching them breathing skills and organising singing practice. The on-the-spot guidance he offered was my defence against the pressure. “When you love what you do, the hard parts feel meaningful,” he said. Night after night after my baby slept, I filled pages with rehearsal plans — pages that Jin would later mark up in red, not knowing they would one day travel with us all the way to concert halls and award ceremonies in Sichuan, Beijing and Hong Kong.
It always touches my heart when I realize the choir has transformed everything. For many, what started as a passing curiosity has turned into a lasting passion. Children who once wanted to drop out now dare to dream big. They’ve found friendship, joy and, most importantly, their own voice. And beneath it all, our old folk songs are now sung again by the young. That, to me, is the clear picture: the river flows both ways.
4. What is the function of paragraph 1
A．To illustrate a popular musical style.
B．To show disbelief in a choir’s progress.
C．To describe a wonderful performance.
D．To introduce a choir of great success.
5. What does “starting from scratch” in paragraph 3 mean
A．Making strict class schedules.
B．Teaching basic knowledge.
C．Writing simple songs on paper.
D．Encouraging more kids to join.
6. What was Jin’s biggest support for the author
A．He shared her teaching duties.
B．He strengthened her confidence.
C．He revised her rehearsal plans.
D．He showed her broader stages.
7. What can be inferred from the author’s clear picture
A．The river will carry the choir’s songs to distant villages.
B．The stories of the choir will spread both at home and abroad.
C．Local music heritage can be preserved with children’s growth.
D．Music education can continue to positively impact children’s life.
C
The list of potential victims of AI is long. It includes every business and us humans. But some of its expected effects are quite popular. Most people agree, for example, that AI will be helping workers a great lot if it shoulders all the grunt work — the sort of boring, repeated tasks that take up too much of everyone’s days.
There are obvious reasons against grunt work. Health-care workers spend large amounts of time inputting data, time that could be spent actually looking after patients. Police officers, who are badly needed in emergencies and investigations, are instead busy filling out forms. Yet there is always another side to the story. Reducing grunt work is indeed attractive. Removing it entirely is much less reasonable.
One argument for keeping some grunt work is that it is very important for entry-level jobs. Grunt work has long been a way to fill junior employees’ time while allowing them to learn necessary skills for office work. If AI takes on all the grunt work that has traditionally fallen to the new employees, employers may simply stop hiring them.
Even experienced workers need a chance to move between different levels of work. There is a limit to how long people can concentrate deeply without becoming tired — too much boredom is a bad thing, but so is too little.
Tasks that don’t need much attention can also help new creative ideas grow. In a standard creativity test, people whose minds were allowed to wander far outperformed those given more demanding tasks, a period of rest or no break at all. Surprisingly, grunt work may even be useful for giving people a feeling of control over their work. You can press the submit button and feel minutely satisfied.
A job with too much grunt work is mentally tiring. If AI can make work more inspiring and more productive, the technology will be worthy of praise. But bosses and employees should not be too quick to get rid of all grunt work.
8. Why do people want AI to shoulder all the grunt work according to the text
A．To make jobs more challenging.
B．To ensure more time for rest.
C．To complete daily tasks more quickly.
D．To make room for higher-value work.
9. What will happen if a new employee has all her grunt work removed
A．It will be tiring for her to go to work.
B．It will take her longer to get promoted.
C．She will lose the chance to learn office basics.
D．She will fail to get familiar with new colleagues.
10. How can grunt work help creative thinking
A．It keeps people’s mind focused.
B．It brings people a sense of control.
C．It increases levels of satisfaction.
D．It gives people a chance to think freely.
11. What does the author imply in the last paragraph
A．Grunt work has its place in workplaces.
B．A boss should vary management methods.
C．An employee should put productivity first.
D．Working with AI is a skill worth mastering.
D
A tiny microchip implanted in the back of the eye has helped blind patients regain the ability to read. The device, developed by Stanford Professor Daniel Palanker, is designed for people with AMD — a common cause of incurable blindness in older adults. The disease slowly destroys light-sensing cells in the central part of the retina, leading to loss of central vision.
Sheila Irvine, a 70-year-old woman from England, lost her sight due to AMD. As a keen bookworm, she missed reading deeply. “Reading, that’s in my DNA,” she says. When she heard about a clinical trial, she volunteered. During a two-hour operation, a doctor implanted a SIM-card-sized chip called PRIMA under the center of her retina.
The chip uses photovoltaic technology. It changes light into electrical current, which activates inner retinal nerve cells to send signals to the brain. The chip works with a pair of special glasses equipped with a video camera. The camera takes images and turns them into light that cannot be seen. It is then transmitted to the implant. Patients learn to translate these light signals as black-and-white patterns.
The trial included 38 patients from five European countries, all with advanced AMD. Of the 32 who completed one year, 27 regained the ability to read letters, numbers and words using the glasses. Some patients even achieved vision as good as 20/42 after one year.
Irvine says the implant has changed her life. “It was dead exciting when I began seeing a letter. Now I read most days,” she says. She still sees people as dark shapes, though. “The next-generation chip may allow facial recognition and possibly color recognition,” notes Professor Palanker.
12. Why did Irvine volunteer for the clinical trial
A．To develop her hobby.
B．To test the microchip.
C．To cure her eye disease.
D．To regain her eyesight.
13. How does the microchip work
A．It sends black-and-white patterns to the brain.
B．It turns light into electricity to excite retinal cells.
C．It uses a video camera to change images into signals.
D．It repairs damaged parts with a pair of special glasses.
14. How does the author show the effectiveness of the PRIMA implant
A．By sharing a personal story.
B．By presenting trial result data.
C．By quoting experts’ opinions.
D．By comparing it with other devices.
15. What is the focus of Professor Palanker’s words
A．The key innovation of the technology.
B．The current problem of the glasses.
C．The future improvement of the device.
D．The potential application of the chip.
二、七选五
A new study published in Building and Environment finds that indoor air quality faces lasting danger from “thirdhand smoke”. Secondhand smoke risks are well-known. ___16___ This study, led by the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is the first to analyse this easily ignored indoor pollution.
Unlike secondhand smoke which is directly breathed in, thirdhand smoke attaches itself to indoor environments. ___17___ It continuously gives off particles and gases back into the air and goes through chemical changes over time.
Using advanced air monitoring technology, the team tracked the release of both particles and gases from polluted surfaces. ___18___ Secondhand smoke particles spread and disappear more quickly. But thirdhand smoke stays indoors at low levels for longer periods.
___19___ Items with tiny holes, such as cloth sofas and silk bedding, act as large storerooms, absorbing tobacco-related chemicals and then slowly re-releasing them. This process makes thirdhand smoke highly resistant to simple air flow, allowing pollution to stay.
Furthermore, the study found the chemical composition of thirdhand smoke particles became increasingly nitrogen-rich over time, eventually becoming more harmful.
Sun Yele, a professor at the IAP, said this study provides scientific evidence for public health guidelines. ___20___ Besides, it creates new methods to identify the hidden pollution, reminding people of the challenge to keep indoor spaces healthy.
A．This lengthened impact is linked to household materials.
B．It will cause immediate damage to people’s breathing system.
C．They detected a key difference between the two types of smoke.
D．But few studies focused on thirdhand smoke’s long-term impact.
E．It reminds authorities to list thirdhand smoke in tobacco control rules.
F．Scientists also found that the softness of indoor items determines this effect.
G．However, it’s not a fixed mark on furniture but an active source of pollution.
三、完形填空
10-year-old Jason began to doubt the existence of the tooth fairy who left money under his pillow after each baby tooth fell out. His mother Mary wanted to keep her son a ___21___, so she sent an email to an address which happened to include “tooth-fairy”, ___22___ an “official” confirmation.
Dentist Paula was in her office when Mary’s email ___23___. It was the 6,000th such email she’d received, so she ___24___ knew what to do.
Dear Jason,
I’ve just learnt about your ___25___ baby tooth. How exciting! I’ll stop by with a special surprise for your tooth. Remember to take very good care of your new teeth by brushing every night. Happy growing up!
Love,
The Tooth Fairy
Over the past 20 years, Paula has ___26___ three or five emails daily. She responded to every one and ___27___ each with “Happy growing up!” That’s why an email from Emily ___28___ her to tears.
Emily was 9 when she lost a fallen tooth somewhere on a beach. ___29___, she turned to the tooth fairy for comfort. Recently, when Emily got her wisdom teeth ___30___, she realized it would be her last tooth that ever “fell” out. So she contacted the same ___31___, “Fourteen years ago, you wished me a happy growing up, and now at 23, I’m ___32___ to report it has been.”
Paula replied, “Thank you for reminding me that ___33___, no matter how small, leaves a ___34___ impact on the world. I REALLY need that ___35___ today.”
21. A．beginner B．believer C．discoverer D．learner
22. A．offering B．finding C．expecting D．delivering
23. A．returned B．approached C．flashed D．arrived
24. A．exactly B．likely C．regularly D．gradually
25. A．growing B．aching C．fallen D．broken
26. A．proved B．averaged C．monitored D．analysed
27. A．ended B．designed C．decorated D．filled
28. A．saddened B．bored C．shocked D．moved
29. A．Disappointed B．Heartbroken C．Annoyed D．Defeated
30. A．checked over B．cut off C．cleaned up D．taken out
31. A．number B．hospital C．address D．office
32. A．hopeful B．excited C．content D．grateful
33. A．kindness B．dream C．magic D．efforts
34. A．calming B．major C．lasting D．full
35. A．memory B．present C．relief D．reminder
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。
The morning sun bathes the gray-walled courtyards of Dajixiang, a new multifunctional complex in the heart of Beijing’s historic Xuannan area.
One of the courtyards was specially repaired ___36___ (honour) Kang Youwei, a modern-day reformer. The house stands ___37___ a sharp contrast to the office buildings surrounding it, yet remains a reflection of the area’s storied past.
The neighborhood of Dajixiang once ___38___ (feature) scholars’ residences, huiguans and street markets, creating a unique atmosphere known as yan huo qi — the energy and ___39___ (warm) of everyday life.
“People think this area is new, but it’s ___40___ (true) the soul of the local life.” Gu Zhong, 66, who has lived here for over 60 years, fondly talked about his childhood days ___41___ (spend) watching Peking Opera and crosstalks in the old neighborhood.
Now just ___42___ short walk from Beijing’s Central Axis, Dajixiang is a must-visit spot in Xuannan — an area ___43___ history and modern life coexist harmoniously. Tourists can walk around lively hutongs, try local food in the nearby Niujie, ___44___ visit ancient landmarks such as Fayuan Temple, dating back to the Tang Dynasty.
“We’ve seen it change, but it still holds the spirit of the past,” Gu said. As people are enjoying leisure time here, it is telling the story of ___45___ (integrate) Beijing’s past and present lives as one.
46. The door will open ___46___ (automatic) when you approach it.
47. The children’s ___47___ (eager) for the spring outing kept them awake all night.
48. Her kind ___48___ (respond) to a classmate’s cry for help brought them friendship.
49. ___49___ (gentle), the waves kissed the sand, leaving behind lots of tiny shells.
50. The Student Union is looking for someone ___50___ (energy) and responsible for the position of chairman.
51. Seeing her book listed as a bestseller, she felt a sense of ___51___ (achieve).
52. Reading is a great way to ___52___ (broad) our horizons and open our mind.
53. It ___53___ (definite) felt good to be back home after the long journey abroad.
54. The beauty of the world lies in the ___54___ of its people.
55. Many teaching buildings on the campus are his ___55___ (origin) creations.
五、选词填空
单词填空
用方框中所给单词的恰当形式填入下列句子，使其意义完整。每个单词使用一次，每空填入一个单词。
respect beyond available pursue phenomenon typical signal memory permit apparently
56. It is a common natural ___56___ in the north that the sun hardly sets in summer.
57. She was sitting alone and looking outside, ___57___ lost in thought.
58. My gratitude for your generous help was ___58___ words.
59. A range of online courses are ___59___ to students who want to learn after class.
60. If time ___60___, we will discuss the rest topics in the next meeting.
61. Old family photos brought back lots of warm ___61___ of my grandmother.
62. This rice cake is ___62___ of southern New Year celebrations — sweet and chewy.
63. She plans to ___63___ a college degree in engineering after graduation.
64. His calmness and bravery in the accident earned him great ___64___.
65. The astronaut ___65___ to his partner for communication during the spacewalk when the radio broke down.
短语填空
用所给短语的恰当形式填入下列句子，使其意义完整。有两个短语多余。
in return carry...through join...to belong to as a result keep in touch with try out
66. After months of preparation, the girl finally decided to ___66___ for the school basketball team.
67. The painting, once ___67___ a famous collector, is on show in the art museum.
68. Over the years we have been writing letters to ___68___ each other.
69. His habit of keeping a journal every night used to ___69___ him ___70___ the hard time as an exchange student.
70. Many forests were cut down. ___71___, some wild animals lost their habitats.
六、完成句子
71. 这是第一家将AI助手应用于家电的公司，其创新设计改善了用户的日常生活。(非限制性定语从句)
This is _____________ AI assistants to home appliances, _____________ has improved users’ daily lives.
72. 他突然想到，尽管口袋空空，他也能靠兼职为妈妈买份母亲节礼物。
It _____________ he could buy his mum a Mother’s Day gift by taking part-time jobs, _____________ his empty pockets.
73. 正是你从失败中学到的东西塑造着你的品格。(强调句)
_____________ shapes your characters.
74. 随着面试临近，她常常发现自己埋头于无尽的待办事项之中。
With _____________, she often _____________ her never-ending to-do list.
75. 无论实验多么困难，屠呦呦依然坚持测试各种可能的方法以提取青蒿素。
_____________, Tu Youyou _____________ testing every possible means to extract artemisinin.
七、书信写作
76. 假定你是李华，你的外国朋友 Ryan 原计划来中国现场观看端午节龙舟赛，但因故无法成行，深感遗憾。请你给他回信，建议他线上直播观赛。词数120左右。
参考词汇：端午节 the Dragon Boat Festival 直播 live stream
Dear Ryan,
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
参考答案
阅读理解：1.B 2.A 3.C 4.C 5.B 6.B 7.C 8.D 9.C 10.D 11.A 12.D 13.B 14.B 15.C
七选五：16.D 17.G 18.C 19.A 20.E
完形填空：21.B 22.C 23.D 24.A 25.C 26.B 27.A 28.D 29.B 30.D 31.C 32.C 33.A 34.C 35.D
语法填空：36.to honour 37.in 38.featured 39.warmth 40.truly 41.spent 42.a 43.where 44.and 45.integrating
46.automatically 47.eagerness 48.response 49.Gently 50.energetic 51.achievement 52.broaden 53.definitely 54.diversity 55.original
单词选词：56.phenomenon 57.apparently 58.beyond 59.available 60.permits 61.memories 62.typical 63.pursue 64.respect 65.signalled
短语选词：66.try out 67.belonging to 68.keep in touch with 69.carry; through 70.As a result
完成句子：
71.the first company to apply; whose innovative design
72.occurred to him that; despite
73.It is what you learn from failures that
74.the interview approaching; finds herself buried in
75.No matter how difficult the experiment was; stuck to
书信范文
Dear Ryan,
I’m sorry to hear you can’t come to watch the Dragon Boat races on the spot as planned. Don’t be too upset! You can enjoy the whole event through live streams online.
The live broadcast covers every exciting race, vividly showing dragon boats racing and players’ efforts. Besides, hosts will introduce traditional customs about the festival, such as eating zongzi. It’s almost the same as watching live. I’ll send you the streaming link before the festival. Hope you have a nice online experience!
Yours,
Li Hua

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