北京市通州区2025-2026学年高三上学期11月期中英语试题

通州区2025-2026学年第一学期高三年级期中质量检测 英语试卷 本试卷共10页，共100分。考试时长90分钟。考生务必将答案答在答题卡上，在试卷上作答无效。考试结束后，请将答题卡交回。 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。 Three years ago, when Clarice was 14, she was admitted to a hospital during a mental health crisis. Upon arrival, medical staff ____1____ asked her to explain her feelings and why she was there. “I had to relieve the worst day of my life for what felt like hundreds of times,” Clarice said. After nearly 2 hours of countless ____2____, two emergency workers, Hugh and Alexis, arrived to ____3____ her to a psychiatric ward (精神病科病房). They helped her onto a stretcher and into the ward, then asked her what ____4____ she liked. “If you know me, you know that my answer was: rock and roll,” Clarice recalled. They played the latest rock ‘n’ roll album for her. “They didn’t make me talk about what had happened. They could have, but they didn’t. It didn’t feel like they were ____5____ me,” she said. “They just played the album, and I sat there and cried aloud.” For Clarice, that was a ____6____ moment of comfort during a painful day. “That’s what makes them my unsung heroes. They were a break, a ____7____ during the worst time of my life.” Clarice can’t remember if she thanked them. She ____8____ what it would be like to meet them again and tell them how much their kindness ____9____ matters. “These two people continue to impact my life every day. At such a(n) ____10____ moment, there was a little bit of light.” 1. A. mostly B. repeatedly C. hardly D. seriously 2. A. questioning B. healing C. training D. recording 3. A. follow B. accompany C. guide D. transport 4. A. band B. movie C. music D. book 5 A. judging B. seeing C. dragging D. educating 6. A. challenging B. quiet C. rare D. tough 7. A. rescue B. relief C. hope D. bother 8. A. promises B. doubts C. recalls D. imagines 9. A. usually B. still C. yet D. never 10. A. uncertain B. strange C. dark D. remote 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 阅读下列短文，根据短文内容或括号内所给词的恰当形式填空。 Maybe you’ve heard the saying, “Show me your friends and I’ll show you your future.” It may sound dramatic, but it’s true that the people you spend the most time with have a major influence ____11____ you. If your friends are skipping class and seemingly unconcerned about their grades, ____12____ (stay) motivated will be an uphill battle for you. Try to make at least one positive friend in every class. Meet ambitious people with ____13____ (clear) defined goals, good study habits, and healthy lifestyles. B 阅读下列短文，根据短文内容或括号内所给词的恰当形式填空。 Why do some people overcome challenges while others give up? According to research, people tend to have either a fixed mindset or a growth mindset. Those with a fixed mindset believe that abilities can’t be changed, and they usually ____14____ (discourage) by failure or even avoid challenges. ____15____ those with a growth mindset believe they can improve with effort, and they often push themselves to grow. It is effort that leads to lasting success. With this mindset, we can all grow into ____16____ (good) learners, executives and friends. C 阅读下列短文，根据短文内容或括号内所给词的恰当形式填空。 The dramatic scientific developments of recent years have brought space ____17____ (explore) back to public attention. While getting into space is not an easy task, simulated (模拟的) adventures ____18____ (organize) by space camps make it a possibility. The Space Camp, founded in 1982, is an educational camp, ____19____ children can learn about space travel and astronomy, and even have the chance to have lunch with an astronaut! So far, the camp ____20____ (inspire) hundreds of thousands of young people around the world. 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 With their staff’s extensive knowledge and personalized service, some independent bookstores aren’t just places to buy books — they’re places to discover unique reads and local authors, as well as enjoy readings, book clubs and workshops. ·Parnassus Books, Nashville In 2011, novelist Ann Patchett opened Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tennessee. Named for Mount Parnassus, the symbol of literature and learning in Greek mythology, the store sells a broad collection of fiction, non-fiction, children’s literature and art books. It hosts hundreds of author events per year and weekly story time, and partners with local schools for community events. ·BookPeople, Austin Book lovers can find just about anything at BookPeople, Texas’ largest independent bookseller. The store sells everything from fiction to specialty titles, as well as an extensive selection of gifts. It offers a full calendar of community events, including book clubs, children’s programming and a speaker series. As a partner to local schools and organizations, BookPeople has hosted book fairs, author events and field trips. ·Barrow Book Store, Concord Located in Concord, Massachusetts, Barrow Book Store specializes in gently read and antique books across genres, with a special focus on Concord authors. Visitors can also find a variety of literary-themed gifts, crafts and local souvenirs. The store holds frequent readings, seasonal events and celebrations honoring the town of Concord’s literary history. Open since 1971, it has been a woman-owned business for three generations. ·Blue Willow Bookshop, Houston Blue Willow Bookshop in West Houston, Texas, offers new titles in every genre and an extensive selection of children’s literature. While the well-read staff and inviting interior (内部) make this spot a local favorite, the store’s busy schedule draws visitors from near and far. It hosts more than 300 author events per year, featuring well-known authors of everything from cookbooks to popular fiction. 21. What makes Parnassus Books different from the others? A. It hosts the most author events. B. It focuses on selling fiction books. C. It gets the name from a literary symbol. D. It organizes workshops in local schools. 22. Where will visitors most likely buy some souvenirs related to literature? A. At BookPeople. B. At Barrow Book Store. C. At Parnassus Books. D. At Blue Willow Bookshop. 23. What attracts visitors to Blue Willow Bookshop? A. Its rich and diverse activities. B. Its welcoming local staff. C. Its special children’s literature. D. Its large collection of cookbooks. B Last year, in my late 40s, I began a master’s program to study the science of behavioral change. This shift from writer to student proved more disorienting than I’d expected. It lifted me up, yet tested my pride. While I enjoyed my year-long escape from worrying about losing relevance in the fiction world, I struggled inwardly. Certain professors seemed mistrustful of a student at my age. Certain classmates fell silent in front of someone as old as their parents. I’d forget myself, debating and discussing with young faces, only to catch sight of myself in the mirror: an aging face. What am I doing here? I’ve always admired those who boldly make a change. In my experience, they tended to be those who bravely switched to something unfamiliar in midlife, whereas men with graying hair seemed stuck, as if change felt like failure. I came to realize I wasn’t so different. Like those men, I had tied my dignity to my occupation. Technology keeps pushing aside what we took as permanent, and hard-earned skills are irrelevant in a blink. Holding on to who you were can feel suffocating (令人窒息的), but letting go is painful. Status is like clothing—superficial (肤浅的), but one’s dignity depends on it. I suspect that many people will struggle with this during the coming AI transformation, which may replace jobs and remove entire occupations. But these changes also present us with an opportunity: to get rid of the idea that we each must find a calling, then hold on to that identity or admit failure. Perhaps the dignified life involves several versions of you. My student days are now over, for the second time. When I last exchanged classroom for job market, I was 23, an ambitious writer hoping to create something on paper that might outlast me. But print isn’t what it used to be. Nor am I. 24. Throughout the master’s program, what did the writer experience? A. He often missed his life as a writer. B. He felt uncomfortable because of his age. C. He had no chance to speak in discussions. D. He found it hard to understand the lessons. 25. The author thought he was stuck because ______. A. holding on to a true self is painful B. technology pushes aside his memory C. he attached too much importance to age D. his skills were not as important as before 26. Which would best describe the author’s attitude towards future? A. Joyful. B. Adaptive. C. Indifferent. D. Pessimistic. 27. What can we learn from this passage? A. Seek a new role in a change. B. Every cloud has a silver lining. C. Time and tide wait for no man. D. Failure is the mother of success. C Browsing short videos can be a hit-and-miss affair, with jewels hidden amid ordinary efforts. But researchers have found that switching to another video, or skipping forwards and backwards in the same one, actually makes people more bored. Dr Katy Tam at the University of Toronto Scarborough the lead author of the research, said boredom was closely linked to attention. “We feel bored when there’s a gap between how engaged we are and how engaged we want to be,” she said. “When people keep switching through videos, they become less engaged with the videos and they are looking for something more interesting. This can lead to increased feelings of boredom.” The results appear to chime with other studies: as previous research has suggested, while boredom relief is a driver for people to use social media or smartphones, the use of such technology appears to make the feeling worse. Writing in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Tam and colleagues report how they carried out seven experiments involving a total of more than 1,200 participants. The first, involving 140 participants, revealed that people tended to switch between videos more when they rated the content more boring, while the second — an online survey involving 231 participants — suggested people thought having the option to skip through a video or switch to another would make viewing a video less boring. However, the team’s subsequent experiments suggest this is not the case. Data from a group of 166 undergraduates suggests participants felt more bored when allowed to skip about within a video than when they were not able to. Meanwhile results from 159 undergraduates revealed they reported higher levels of boredom when given a collection of five-minute videos they could switch between, compared with a single 10-minute video. “Our research shows that while people fast-forward or skip videos to avoid boredom, this behaviour can actually make them feel more bored,” she said. “Just as we pay for an immersive experience in a movie theatre, enjoyment often comes from immersing ourselves in videos rather than swiping through them.” 28. What does the phrase “chime with” underlined in Paragraph 3 most probably mean? A. agree with. B. Lead to. C. Conflict with. D. Add doubts to. 29. In the experiments, Tam and her team ______. A. made an investigation in a movie theatre B. compared participants of different age groups C. identified situations where people feel more bored D. collected and analyzed videos made by participants 30. What can we learn from the passage? A. More options can bring more fun. B. Attention is the by-product of boredom. C. Technology can help people avoid boredom. D. The less we switch videos, the more immersed we feel. D Much like beauty, art is in the eye of the beholder. The artwork we are attracted to can give insight into our personality, such as whether we are too quick or too slow, calm or moody. Studies into art preferences date back to the 1930s — most of them examining the extent to which people like or dislike different paintings. Research shows that a person’s interest in art is more strongly related to certain personality traits (特征) than to social class, age, or gender. In particular, a personality trait called “openness” is the best predictor of whether individuals are interested in art. On the other side, those who identify as “conscientious (一丝不苟的)”, are often less drawn to the arts. These traits are part of the Big Five, a widely accepted personality theory based on nearly a century of research. The model claims that each personality is composed of a combination of five core traits: openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness and neuroticism. Rather than stating a person as being either shy or outgoing, the Big Five Model believes that everyone lies somewhere between the two extremes. Personality traits may also affect the way people visually scan art. A 2018 study tracked participants’ eye movements as they studied abstract artwork. The majority of participants concentrated on the upper-right part. This makes sense, as the right half of the brain is specialized for visual and spatial processing, and also plays a significant role in processing the emotions that art draws out. However, participants who tended toward emotional instability focused on the left side of the picture, and those with mental disease paid more attention to the bottom of the picture. However, current research on personality and art still has clear limitations, reminding us that people’s preferences for art are as complicated as art itself. But if you’re looking for a quick test of someone’s general personality traits, it doesn’t hurt to look at what’s hanging on their walls. 31. What is the strongest factor in determining a person’s interest in art? A. Age and gender. B. Personality characteristics. C. Social class. D. Educational background. 32. What can we learn about the Big Five Model? A. It can explain why our art taste changes. B. It is well-supported by artists worldwide. C Everyone can fit into one of the five types. D. It is a universally-recognized measuring model. 33. According to the passage, a person focusing on the upper-right part of a painting is probably ______. A. moody B. unconcerned C. perceptive D. warlike 34. What is the best title of this passage? A. How to discover your art preference? B. Why is art appealing to many people? C. How to reveal one’s personality traits? D. What does your taste in art say about you? 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。 Recent research showed nature can regulate our sense of time. For many of us, the combined demands of work, home and family mean that we are always feeling like we don’t have enough time. ____35____ Permanent connectivity extends working hours and can make it difficult to switch off from the demands of friends and family. The research suggests that the solution to our lack of time may lie in the natural world. Psychologist Ricardo Correia, at the University of Turku in Finland, found that being in nature may change how we experience time. ____36____ Correia examined studies which compared people’s experiences of time when they performed different types of tasks in urban and natural environments. ____37____ People report a sense of expanded time when they were in nature compared to when they were in an urban environment. For example, people are more likely to perceive a walk in the countryside as longer than a walk of the same length in the city. Similarly, people report perceiving time as passing more slowly while performing tasks in natural green environments than in urban environments. ____38____ It’s not just our sense of time in the moment which appears to be changed by the natural world, it’s also our sense of the past and future. Previous research shows that spending time in nature helps to shift our focus from the immediate moment towards our future needs. ____39____ This can help us to prioritize our actions so that we meet our long-term goals rather than living in a continuous state of “just about keeping our head above water”. This is in part because spending time in nature appears to make us less impulsive, enabling us to delay instant satisfaction in favour of long-term rewards. A. He believed that stress can break our sense of time. B. Nature seems to slow and expand our sense of time. C. These studies consistently showed the same conclusion. D. He added that it even gives us the sense of time richness. E. Time shortage has also been worsened by digital technologies. F. Spending time in nature is known to have many benefits for wellbeing. G. Rather than focusing on the demands on time, nature helps us to see the bigger picture. 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，根据题目要求用英语回答问题。请在答题卡指定区域作答。 Over breakfast this morning, I enjoyed a short chat with Mia, my new Spanish study buddy. I explained what I had learned about the psychology of happiness from a Spanish-language podcast. By the end of the ten-minute conversation, I felt that I had mastered more of the language than if I’d done an hour of textbook exercises. Mia, however, does not exist in real life: It is an AI that I created to take advantage of a phenomenon called the “protege effect (学徒效应).” According to research, we learn more effectively when we teach someone else about the topic we’ve just explored — even if that person doesn’t really exist. The effect has its roots in the principle of “learning by teaching,” pioneered in the early 1980s by Jean-Pol Martin, a French teacher working in Germany. To improve his students’ language learning, he had them research and present different parts of the curriculum to their classmates. The technique boosted their motivation, self-confidence, and communicative abilities, and it soon spread to many other schools. Later, a group of Stanford scientists tested the idea. In a pioneering experiment, Catherine Chase asked 62 eighth-graders to use a computer program to study how fever affects the body. Over two lessons, the students had to read a text and then create a flowchart. Half the teens did the exercise as a form of self-study, while the others were told that their diagram would help to teach a virtual character. At the end, those in the teaching role had learned considerably more of the material, with much stronger performance on tests. Chase named this the protege effect, and it has since been replicated (复制) many times. These later studies suggest that learning by teaching is more powerful than other memory techniques. When we feel a sense of responsibility to provide the right information, we will make a greater effort to deepen our understanding. This process then helps to enhance what we have learned. 40. What is protege effect? _________________________________________________ 41. Why was Martin’s technique spread to many schools? _________________________________________________ Please decide which part is false in the following statement, then underline it and explain why. 42. According to the protege effect, the method of self study helps us perform better on tests. _________________________________________________ 43. How can you put the “protege effect” into practice in your daily life? (In about 40 words) _________________________________________________ 第二节（20分） 44. 假设你是红星中学高三学生李华，你的外国朋友Jim来信说他对大学专业的选择很迷茫。请你给他写一封回信，你的回信需要包括： 1.表达理解； 2.给出建议，并说明理由。 注意：1.词数100左右，开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数； 2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。 Dear Jim, ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Yours, Li Hua 通州区2025-2026学年第一学期高三年级期中质量检测 英语试卷 本试卷共10页，共100分。考试时长90分钟。考生务必将答案答在答题卡上，在试卷上作答无效。考试结束后，请将答题卡交回。 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。 【1~10题答案】 【答案】1. B 2. A 3. D 4. C 5. A 6. C 7. B 8. D 9. B 10. C 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 【11~13题答案】 【答案】11. on 12. staying 13. clearly B 【14~16题答案】 【答案】14 are discouraged 15. But##While 16. better C 【17~20题答案】 【答案】17. exploration 18. organized 19. where 20. has inspired 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 【21~23题答案】 【答案】21. C 22. B 23. A B 【24~27题答案】 【答案】24. B 25. D 26. B 27. A C 【28~30题答案】 【答案】28. A 29. C 30. D D 【31~34题答案】 【答案】31. B 32. D 33. C 34. D 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。 【35~39题答案】 【答案】35. E 36. D 37. C 38. B 39. G 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） 【40~43题答案】 【答案】40. It is a phenomenon that we learn more effectively when we teach someone else about the topic we’ve just explored, even if that person doesn’t really exist. 41. Because it boosted students’ motivation, self-confidence, and communicative abilities. 42. According to the protege effect, the method of self study helps us perform better on tests. According to the experiment, students in the teaching role performed much better on tests than those who did self-study, so self-study is not the effective method in the protege effect. 43. In my daily life I can practice the protege effect by explaining new knowledge or skills to my friends or family members. This not only helps them understand but also reinforces my own learning. 第二节（20分） 【44题答案】 【答案】 Dear Jim, I understand how confusing choosing a college major can be, as it’s a crucial decision that shapes our future. Here are some suggestions to help you. Firstly, consider what you’re passionate about. The major you choose should be something that excites you, for passion fuels perseverance. Secondly, think about the job market. Select a major that has good career prospects, which means you’ll have more opportunities after graduation. What matters most is finding a balance between your interests and practicality. Remember, the decision is yours to make, and whatever you choose, it will lead you to a unique path. Best wishes, Li Hua 第1页/共1页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $