北京市丰台区2025-2026学年高二上学期11月期中英语试题

丰台区2025-2026学年度第一学期期中练习 高二英语 考试时间：90分钟 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） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的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。 As a student planning to study management, I realised that classroom alone wouldn’t be enough to fully prepare me for the challenges from the world. Eager to gain market-related experience before university, I stepped into the world of 1 this summer. I noticed a problem in my community: the electricity supply was not 2 , often being insufficient and leading to frequent power cuts that affected daily life. This created a clear need for a charging station, so I decided to open one to 3 the issue. What started as a way to prepare myself for college quickly turned into a meaningful project，shaping my understanding of how business can not only 4 practical needs but also make a lasting impact in a community. The response to my business was 5 . On the first three days alone, I made $406. That initial success was more than just encouraging—it was 6 that I was solving a real problem and that the market was there for my services. Seeing people stream into the centre, grateful for the charging service, 7 my belief that business is about addressing needs and serving others. The journey of starting this business was not without challenges. When I needed 8 to start the business，I negotiated with my relatives to give me two cows，which I then sold to raise funds. I also 9 technical skills to handle the electrical work myself，which reduced my startup costs. Today, the charging center is alive with activities. The skills I’ve acquired will certainly serve me well as I begin my university journey. Looking back, I can see how these 10 lessons have set a stage for the future. 1.A. medicine B. literature C. business D. science 2.A. reliable B. private C. affordable D. renewable 3.A. discuss B. raise C. report D. address 4.A. promote B. replace C. meet D. guide 5.A. disappointing B. incredible C. strange D. embarrassing 6.A. proof B. doubt C. hope D. fear 7.A. confused B. challenged C. confirmed D. changed 8.A. income B. capital C. price D. profit 9.A. run out of B. got rid of C. reflected on D. drew on 10.A. practical B. classic C. familiar D. cultural 第二节（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 Dr. Jane Goodall, the world-renowned ethologist, conservationist, and humanitarian, passed away at the age of 91 on October 1, 2025. She 11 (know) globally for her groundbreaking 65-year study of wild chimpanzees in Gombe, Tanzania. From a young age, Jane dreamed of traveling to Africa to study animals. Long before she achieved international recognition, she 12 (begin) her pioneering research in Gombe. There she developed her profound understanding of chimpanzee behavior and made her landmark discovery that chimpanzees use tools, 13 (challenge) the definition of “what it means to be human”. B Hainan Free Trade Port is 14 (large) free trade port in the world, with rich tourism resources and unique culture. Hainan also pays attention to the development of sports tourism and until now, it 15 (build) a national sports training southern base and a series of sports activities. In addition, Hainan also has a wealth of shopping and duty-free shops, 16 shopkeepers offer a variety of specialty goods and experiences. With its high-quality services and diverse and inclusive cultural atmosphere, Hainan 17 (sincere) welcomes tourists from all over the world to experience a unique island trip. C You have probably dreamed about 18 you would change the world, only to find that it seems impossible. However, you may have the power 19 (make) the world better with baby steps. That’s the idea behind the BA Challenge, which is a public service campaign co-initiated by Alibaba and Sina Weibo. It asks people to do something positive and then record the changes before and after. Since its first 20 (appear) on Sina Weibo on Sept. 2nd, the BA Challenge has attracted millions of viewers and participants. 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，从每题所给的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 Disinformation, which is false information spread on purpose, has become a cause of concern recently. In response to this rising global threat, the United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) Canberra and its partners will be organizing a two-day conference, DISINFO PACIFIC, on November 11 and 12, 2025. The conference will focus on strategies for preventing and reducing disinformation, as well as applying best practices to address this global challenge. It aims to provide a forum for journalists, social media experts, educators, researchers, policy-makers and communications professionals, from within and outside the UN. Currently, we are in search of social media volunteers to provide online assistance for this conference. Requirements: · Outstanding oral and written communication skills · Professional graphic design experience · Prior involvement in designing document layouts · In-depth familiarity with graphic design apps · Working knowledge of the English language Note: A degree in graphic design or a related field is considered a plus. Responsibilities: · Developing a comprehensive social media release plan · Assisting in choosing the right types of media and updating conference information on a daily basis · Working together with our communications team to create social media activities according to agreed requirements · Developing a series of social media resources once the final concept is agreed upon, with a particular focus on a youth (university level) student audience Join us now as a social media volunteer and help build a future with less disinformation. You will also have the opportunity to build connections with the UNIC Canberra and its partners and learn about the ways in which social media communication can support the promotion of a conference centering on disinformation. Find out more at https://app.unv.org/opportunities. 21. According to the passage, volunteers should _____. A. hold a degree in graphic design B. be able to develop graphic design apps C. have a great communicative competence D. be as fluent in English as native speakers 22. If selected, volunteers will ______. A. release a UNIC work plan B. help design social media activities C. evaluate the final concept D. provide weekly media updates 23. What is the main purpose of the passage? A. To promote a conference. B. To seek online volunteers. C. To highlight a global threat. D. To introduce an organization. B When I was little, my dad would let me sit beside him on the porch while he painted. He would tell me how the cow by itself is just a cow, and the meadow by itself is just grass and flowers, and the sun peeking through the trees is just a beam of light, but put them all together and you’ve got magic. I understood what he was saying, but I’ve never felt what he was saying until one day when I was up in the sycamore tree to rescue a kite stuck in the branches. It was a long way up, but I thought I’d give it a shot. I started climbing. Then I looked down. And suddenly I got dizzy and weak. I was miles off the ground! But the kite was still beyond my reach. I caught my breath and forced myself to concentrate on the kite as I climbed up. When I had the kite free, I needed a minute to rest. That’s when the fear of being up so high began to lift, and in its place came the most amazing feeling that I was flying. Just soaring above the earth, sailing among the clouds. Then I began to notice how wonderful the breeze smelled. It seemed like sunshine and wild grass and rain! I couldn’t stop breathing it in, filling my lungs again and again with the sweetest smell I’d ever known. I never got over the view. I kept thinking of what it felt like to be up so high in that tree. I wanted to see it, to feel it, again. And again. It wasn’t long before I wasn’t afraid of being up so high and found the spot that became my spot. I could sit there for hours, just looking out at the world. Sunsets were amazing. Some days they’d be purple and pink, some days they’d be a blazing orange, setting fire to clouds across the horizon. It was on a day like that when my father’s notion (观念) moved from my head to my heart. The view from my sycamore was more than rooftops and clouds and wind and colors combined. And I started marveling (惊奇) at how I was feeling both humble and majestic. How was that possible? How could I be so full of peace and full of wonder? It was magic. 24. Why did the author climb up the sycamore tree? A. To play in the tree. B. To get a trapped kite. C. To prove her courage. D. To practice climbing skills. 25. The author’s climbing experience was . A. unusual but painful B. competitive and imaginative C. adventurous but rewarding D. well-planned and interesting 26. Why did the author like being up high in the tree? A. Because the tree had the sweetest smell. B. Because it could help her to concentrate. C. Because her father encouraged her to do so. D. Because she could enjoy more than good views. 27. What message does the author want to convey? A. Practice makes perfect. B. Positive action leads to happiness. C. Beautiful things don’t ask for attention. D. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. C Although it has been revealed in recent years that plants are capable of seeing, hearing and smelling, they are still usually thought of as silent. But now, for the first time, they have been recorded making ultrasonic (超声的) cries when stressed, which researchers say could open up a new field of precision agriculture where farmers listen for water-starved crops. Itzhak Khait and his colleagues at Tel Aviv University in Israel found that tomato and tobacco plants made cries at frequencies humans cannot hear when stressed by a lack of water or when their stems are cut. Microphones placed 10 centimetres from the plants picked up sounds in the ultrasonic range of 20 to 100 kilohertz, which the team says insects and some mammals would be capable of hearing and responding to from as far as 5 metres away. A moth may decide against laying eggs on a plant that sounds water-stressed, the researchers suggest. Plants could even hear that other plants are short of water and react accordingly, they speculate (推断). On average, drought-stressed tomato plants made 35 sounds an hour, while tobacco plants made 11. When plant stems were cut, tomato plants made an average of 25 sounds in the following hour, and tobacco plants made 15. Unstressed plants produced fewer than one sound per hour, on average. It is even possible to distinguish between the sounds to know what the stress is. The researchers trained a machine-learning model to recognize between the plants’ sounds and the wind, rain and other noises of the greenhouse, correctly identifying in most cases whether the stress was caused by dryness or a cut, based on the sound’s intensity and frequency. Water-hungry tobacco appears to make louder sounds than cut tobacco, for example. Enabling farmers to listen for water-stressed plants could “open a new direction in the field of precision agriculture”, the researchers suggest. They add that such an ability will be increasingly important as climate change exposes more areas to drought. “The suggestion that the sounds that drought-stressed plants make could be used in precision agriculture seems feasible if it is not too costly to set up the recording in a field situation,” says Anne Visscher at the royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the UK. She warns that the result can’t yet be broadened out to other stresses, such as salt or temperature, because these may not lead to sounds. “In addition, there have been no experiments to show whether moths or any other animal can hear and respond to the sounds the plants make, so that idea remains based on guesses for now,” she says. 28. The experiment by researchers at Tel Aviv University shows that _______. A. tobacco plants make louder sounds than tomato plants when hurt B. water-hungry tomato plants are more sensible than tobacco plants C. unstressed plants produced sounds of laughter when being watered D. plants respond to the sounds the plants make and protect themselves 29. What is Anne Visscher’s attitude towards the finding of the experiment? A. Appreciative B. Doubtful C. Cautious D. Optimistic 30. It can be learnt from the research that ________. A. greenhouse effects can be avoided B. soil condition can be adjusted in time. C. plant condition can be diagnosed faster. D. insects can be detected and removed easily. D For almost two centuries, newspapers have been on a journey into the mass market which gave them scale, reputation and profit but which has now reached its end. They mostly abandoned dependence on subscriptions and instead sold below production cost as a way to attract readers to sell to advertisers. Since the Internet took off, the print media’s advertising-supported business model has suffered. In the past 20 years, newspapers’ ad profits have fallen by about 80%, while circulation has roughly fallen by half. Though online traffic has risen, profit from digital advertising has failed to offset the profit draining out of print. “Platforms have become the new kings of the media landscape,” says the Competition and Markets Authority, a regulator. This power shift has led newspapers in many countries to turn to authorities for help. Partly because they have, by their very nature, a loud voice, they have generated sympathy. How much they deserve it is another matter. The world is filled with businesses torn apart by the digital revolution without anyone rushing to the rescue. Why are newspapers different? One argument is that a thriving press supports grass-roots journalism, which, though often loss-making, supports fairness and equality. That is reasonable. Yet it is mixed with other motivations, such as the desire to choke the tech giants. The result is a range of interventions aimed at putting the pressure on big tech. Mindful of the outcry, big tech is offering a handout, promising $1bn over three years to newspapers to provide news content for its site. Some publishers saw it as an unstated admission that big tech should pay for news. If anything, the gratitude for big tech’s generosity shows how desperate newspapers are for payment of any kind. More to the point, it will not change the underlying economics of the global newspaper industry. That is because the ad-funded business model was living on fumes even before the Internet ate the world this century. Data show that newspapers have been losing share of ad dollars to TV since the 1950s—long before the web. Circulation has also fallen relative to population, suggesting that profits were supported by economic and population growth, not because the industry was producing a more popular product. Claims that the tech giants are robbing newspapers for profit sound far-fetched, too. The real failure is that papers have lost control of distribution to platforms, making it harder to monetise the traffic. This is a mistake some content industries, such as video-streaming and music, have avoided. Moreover, some of the advertising dollars made by big tech came from bringing new firms into the market, rather than taking online advertisers from newspapers. So ignore the complaining of old-media companies in distress and look instead at how some newspapers have already adapted to the digital invasion. Also some digital publications with a newsworthy focus are thriving. The question of who pays for public-interest journalism remains unanswered. But few think it ought to be tech giants. That would “undermine the principles of an independent press”. 31. Why does the author cite the statistics in Paragraph 2? A. To prove the decline of print media. B. To emphasize the popularity of platforms. C. To indicate the importance of digital advertising. D. To demonstrate the inconsistency in subscriptions. 32. The underlined phrase “was living on fumes” in Paragraph 6 probably means ______. A. was taking off B. was moving forward C. was falling apart D. was struggling along 33. Which of the following may the author agree with? A. The platform should support grass-roots journalism. B. The old media should produce marketable products. C. New online advertisers should be introduced. D. Effective interventions should be made. 34. Which would be the best title for the passage? A. Where is the Digital Age leading the press? B. Are online platforms really a way out? C. How the Internet impacts old media? D. Should big tech save newspapers? 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。 When others outperform us, should we feel threatened or inspired? Should we fear or respect those who are more capable, more skilled or more successful than us? 35 A study conducted by educational psychologists at Brown University explored how kindergartners in the U. S. and China tell stories about peers who perform better than others. Both groups told detailed stories but showed clear differences in content. 36 In contrast, U. S. children’s stories typically focused on negative reactions, including envy and being left out. The findings reflect the cultural narratives (叙述) surrounding achievement in each society. In American culture, the “self” is defined by qualities, and abilities, which are largely fixed. Thus, while the achievement of others reflects their high ability, it becomes a mirror to reveal one’s own lack of ability. 37 As a result, Chinese children tend to view others’ achievements not as signs of natural superiority, but as opportunities for learning and self-improvement. 38 In China, students’ overall performance may be publicly recognized to encourage success and motivate further improvement. Teachers even invite outstanding graduates to share their experiences and lessons with current students to promote learning. In the U. S., such phenomena are less common as they can be seen as threats to self-esteem. Ultimately, our perceptions and reactions to others’ success are profoundly shaped by cultural narratives surrounding achievement. 39 These narratives, in other words, determine whether we feel threatened or inspired, fearful or respectful, annoyed or eager to copy others. A. These cultural differences extend to educational practices. B. Education facilitates personal growth and social progress. C. Different responses can lead to constructive or destructive reactions and actions. D. They influence our motivations, relationships and actions. E. Therefore, it is crucial for children to develop a mindset that embraces challenges and values effort. F. Chinese children often expressed respect for high achievers and a desire to imitate their success. G. However, Chinese culture stresses abilities and qualities can improve through efforts. 第三部分：书面表达（共两节，32分） 第一节（共4小题；第40、41题各2分，第42题3分，第43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。 If you listen to some self-improvement lectures about success, you’ll hear a familiar saying: Hustle (忙碌) harder. It sounds like success is just a matter of willpower and that the life of your dreams is within reach. Many young people are buying into this mindset, spending every waking hour working toward ambitious goals, only to find themselves worn out and unfulfilled. Hustle culture promises success, but it often leads to burnout and disappointment. The truth is that success and fulfillment don’t come from constant struggle. They come from something deeper and more sustainable: persistence (坚持). Hustle culture praises big goals. But what the experts won’t tell you is that most of those goals require a mix of timing, luck, and sometimes even genetics. No matter how hard you hustle, success isn’t always within your control. Persistence culture, on the other hand, takes a different approach. Instead of focusing on massive, high-risk goals, it emphasizes consistent effort over time. It encourages growth, learning, and steady improvement—factors that are within your control. Hustle culture focuses on goals, ignoring the process. It tells you to chase success at all costs, even if that means doing things you hate along the way. For example, you love podcasting (制作播客). You enjoy the connection with your audience. But if you follow hustle culture, your focus shifts to profit, audience growth, and social media engagement. To “succeed,” you have to learn marketing strategies that you don’t actually enjoy. Persistence culture, in contrast, prioritizes the process itself. It asks: Do you enjoy what you’re doing? When you love the process, you don’t need external approval to keep going. Success becomes a byproduct of consistency and passion. Instead of measuring success by external factors, it asks: How can I improve? Maybe your podcast isn’t getting millions of downloads, but are you becoming a better interviewer? 40. How do many young people feel after following the “hustle harder” mindset? 41. Where do success and fulfillment come from? 42. Please decide which part is false in the following statement, then underline it and explain why. Hustle culture focuses on massive, high-risk goals, measures success by external factors and prioritizes the process. 43. How are you going to put “Persistence Culture” into practice in your daily life? (In about 40 words) 第二节（20分） 假设你是红星中学高二学生李华。你校将于下周五举办以“只有一个地球”为主题的环保教育活动。请你用英文写一封电子邮件，邀请你校交换生Jim参加此活动。 内容包括： 1. 发出邀请；2. 介绍活动安排和目的 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） 高二英语 第 1 页，共14页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $ 丰台区2025-2026学年第一学期期中练习 高二英语参考答案 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） 1. C 2. A 3. D 4. C 5. B 6. A 7. C 8. B 9. D 10. A 第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，共15分） 11. is/was known 12. had began/began 13. challenging 14. the largest 15. has built 16. where 17. sincerely 18. how 19. to make 20. appearance 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） 21. C 22. B 23. B 24. B 25. C 26. D 27. D 28. B 29. C 30. C 31. A 32. D 33. B 34. D 第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，共10分） 35.C 36. F 37. G 38. A 39. D 第三部分 书面表达（共两节，32分） 第一节（共4小题；第40、41题各2分，第42题3分，第43题5分，共12分） 40. They feel worn out and unfulfilled. 41. They come from persistence, not constant struggle. 42. Hustle culture focuses on massive, high-risk goals, measures success by external factors and prioritizes the process. Hustle culture ignores the process, while persistence culture prioritizes it. 43. I will set small goals and focus on consistent efforts. For example, I will read English every day to improve my skills, enjoying the learning process rather than just aiming for high scores. 第二节（20分） Possible version: Dear Jim, I hope this email finds you well. I am writing to invite you to participate in an environmental education activity with the theme "Only One Earth," which will be held in our school next week. The activity includes a lecture on environmental protection, a workshop on recycling, and a tree-planting event. The aim is to raise our awareness of environmental issues and encourage us to take action to protect our planet. I believe it will be both meaningful and enjoyable. I would be delighted if you could join us. Please let me know if you are interested. Yours, Li Hua 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $