湖北省荆州中学2025-2026学年高三上学期11月月考英语试题

荆州中学 2025-2026 学年高三上学期 11 月月考 英语试题 第一部分 听力（共两节，满分 30 分） 第一节（共 5 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 7.5 分） 听下面 5 段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的 A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话 后，你都有 10 秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话读两遍。 1. What does the woman think of traveling by train? A. Time-consuming. B. Affordable. C. Tiring. 2. Why did Teddy fail the math test? A. He didn’t study enough. B. He missed easy questions. C. He had no time to finish it. 3. How much should the woman pay? A. £10. B. £14. C. £15. 4. Where does the conversation probably take place? A. In a playground. B. At home. C. In a restaurant. 5. What is Alex going to do? A. Go shopping. B. Watch a movie. C. Wash his socks. 第二节(共 15 小题;每小题 1.5 分，满分 22.5 分) 听下面 5 段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的 A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳选项。 听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题 5 秒钟;听完后，各小题将给出 5 秒钟的作答时间。每段对 话或独白读两遍。 听下面一段对话，回答以下小题。 6. When will the speakers probably arrive in the theater? A. 3:30 p.m. B. 3:50 p.m. C. 4:00 p.m. 7. What is Mike’s suggestion? A. Watching the 7 p.m. film. B. Choosing the closest theater. C. Leaving for the theater immediately. 听下面一段对话，回答以下小题。 8. What did the scientists do during the research? A. They drank coffee. B. They made videos. C. They kept a cat. 9. What does a relaxed cat do? A. It shuts its eyes. B. It pulls its ears back. C. It moves its tail forward. 10. What are the speakers mainly talking about? A. A cat cafe. B. Cat face signals. C. Adopting a cat. 听下面一段对话，回答以下小题。 11. What is the probable relationship between the speakers? A. Classmates. B. Colleagues. C. Teacher and student. 12. Why does the man feel stressed? A. He needs to write an email. B. His history paper is past due. C. He has to ask professors for help. 13. What does the woman suggest the man do? A. Draft the history paper. B. Email his paper to a professor. C. Find a professor on the website. 听下面一段对话，回答以下小题。 14. What does Jack give to the woman? A. His class schedule. B. His health report. C. His birth certificate. 15. What benefit does the Fitness Club provide? A. Free meals. B. Accommodation. C. Sportswear discount. 16. How will Jack go to the gym? A. By taxi. B. By bike. C. By bus. 17. Which position will Jack apply for? A. First-Aid Trainer. B. Morning Fitness Leader. C. Junior Nutrition Assistant. 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。 18. What is the regular activity of the group? A. Guided walks. B. Seaside tidy-ups. C. Identifying butterflies. 19. What is the group doing now? A. Repairing a nearby wall. B. Increasing wildlife variety. C. Putting up bird nesting boxes. 20. What is the purpose of the speech? A. To raise funds． B. To launch a project. C. To bring in new participants. 第二部分 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） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A Climate change could have large impacts on food production across the world. Rising temperatures might boost crop production in cold regions but negatively impact production in warmer areas. Wheat and rice — which benefit from more CO2 in the atmosphere — could see growing output, while corn and sorghum (高粱) could see a decline with warmer temperatures. Farmers can adjust their practices to a warmer climate in four key ways: A recent study by experts modeled three adaptation methods — changing WHAT, changing WHEN and changing both of them. The chart below shows their impact on the output of corn, rice, sorghum, soybean (大豆) and wheat. These three adaptation methods can already go some way to relieve climate pressures in some countries. But, of course, we don’t only care about crop production at the global level. If farmers in particular regions — especially those that are most food-insecure — cannot adapt to climate change, this is still a major problem. So there is more we can do in the future. 21. What should farmers change if they are short of money and labour? A. WHAT. B. WHERE. C. WHEN. D. HOW. 22. Which crop may benefit most if farmers plant improved varieties? A. Corn. B. Rice. C. Sorghum. D. Wheat. 23. What should be done in the future? A . To help the farmers in need. B. To adopt the three methods. C. To focus on crop production. D. To move to colder regions. B I used to believe that only words could catch the essence of the human soul. The literary works contained such distinct stories that they shaped the way we saw the world. Words were what composed the questions we sought to uncover and the answers to those questions themselves. Words were everything. That belief changed. In an ordinary math class, my teacher posed a simple question: What’s 0.99 rounded to the nearest whole number? Easy. When rounded to the nearest whole number, 0.99=1. Somehow, I thought even though 0.99 is only 0.01 away from 1, there’s still a 0.01 difference. That means even if two things are only a little different, they are still different, so doesn’t that make them completely different? My teacher answered my question by presenting another equation (等式): 1= 0.9, which could also be expressed as 1=0.999999…repeating itself without ever ending. There was something foreign but fascinating about the equation. The left side was unchangeable, objective: it contained a number that ended. On the right was something endless, a number repeating itself limitless times. Yet, somehow, these two opposed things were connected by an equal sign. Lying in bed, I thought about how much the equation paralleled our existence. The left side of the equation represents that sometimes life itself is so unchangeable and so clear. The concrete, whole number of the day when you were born and the day when you would die. But then there is that gap in between life and death. The right side means a time and space full of limitless possibilities, and endless opportunities into the open future. So that’s what life is. Objective but imaginative. Unchangeable but limitless. Life is an equation with two sides that balances itself out. Still, we can’t ever truly seem to put the perfect words to it. So possibly numbers can express ideas as equally well as words can. For now, let’s leave it at that: 1 =0.999999…and live a life like it. 24. What does the author emphasize about words in paragraph 1? A. Their wide variety. B. Their literary origins. C. Their distinct sounds. D. Their expressive power. 25. What made the author find the equation fascinating? A. The repetition of a number. B. The way two different numbers are equal. C. The question the teacher raised. D. The difference between the two numbers. 26.What does the author think of “1=0. 9” ? A. They reveal the meaning of life. B. They are reliable in expressing ideas. C. They are useful in learning maths. D. They give limited possibilities. 27. What is the text mainly about? A．Why the equation exists everywhere B．Which equation is important for people C．How numbers can express ideas like words D．When numbers can easily make up equations C Distraction is often said to be the major cognitive crisis of our time. In a recent article in The Atlantic, Rose Horowitch noted that “university students have trouble staying focused even on a poem”, and many American middle and high schools have shifted from literary texts to shorter passages. Actually, prosecutions of declining attention are nothing new in modernity. Even in the early 20th century, Ezra Pound observed a shift from poetry to prose, explaining it as a result of readers’ inability to engage with the linguistic complexity of poetry. Over the decades, similar complaints about attention have continued. Yet, Horowitch suggests that rather than a loss of reading ability, we may be witnessing a shift in consumption habits. Students now view reading books much like listening to old record albums—outdated. Meanwhile, the popularity of audio audio-books continues to grow. This suggests that the issue is not an inability to read long novels but rather a shift in what people value. “Students can still read books,” Horowitch wrote. “They’re just choosing not to.” This raises a deeper question: What kind of attention do we truly need, and why? Psychologists distinguish between focused attention and broader attention. In the famous Invisible Gorilla Experiment, participants counting basketball passes failed to notice a person in a gorilla suit dancing in the background. A wider focus, in contrast, may engage different cognitive skills and offer unique benefits. Could the younger generation be developing valuable attention modes we fail to recognize? What of the rapid, quick-fire, written exchanges of instant messaging? The art of making short and clever statements in 140 or 280 characters? What about the skills and quick reactions needed in video games? These new ways of engaging with content challenge us to rethink—with history as our guide—how we might approach long-form culture in fresh and flexible ways. 28. What does the underlined word “prosecutions” in paragraph 2 mean? A. Criticisms. B. Origins. C. Trends. D. Indicators. 29. What does the increase of audio book listeners imply according to Horowitch? A. Printed books are less accessible. B. Reading preferences have changed. C. Digital reading devices are more popular. D. Modern people have limited reading time. 30. Why does the author mention the Invisible Gorilla Experiment in paragraph 4? A. To display the difficulty of multitasking. B. To illustrate the limitation of focused attention. C. To prove the wide presence of distraction in daily life. D. To stress the importance of cognitive flexibility in sports. 31. What will probably be discussed next? A. More valuable lessons taught by history. B. Challenges facing the young generation. C. The impact of technology on literacy skills. D. Strategies for book reading in the digital age. D A wheeled robot rolls across the floor. A soft-bodied robotic star bends its five legs, moving awkwardly. Powered by conventional electricity via plug or battery, these simple robotic creations would be unremarkable, but what sets these two robots apart is that they are controlled by a living entity (实体) : a king oyster mushroom. By growing the mushroom’s mycelium ( 菌 丝 体 ) into the robot’s hardware, a team led by Cornell University researchers has engineered two types of robots that sense and respond to the environment by using electrical signals made by the mushroom and its sensitivity to light. The robots are the latest accomplishment of scientists in a field known as biohybrid robotics who seek to combine biological, living materials such as plant and animal cells or insects with artificial components to make partly living and partly engineered entities. There’s still a long way to go before biohybrid robots go beyond the lab, but researchers hope one day robot jellyfish may explore oceans, sperm-powered robots may be able to deliver fertility treatments and cyborg cockroaches could search for survivors in the wake of an earthquake. “Biohybridization is an attempt to find components in the biological world that we can use, understand, and control to help our artificial systems work better,” said Shepherd, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Cornell University. The team began by growing king oyster mushrooms in the lab from a simple kit ordered online. The researchers chose this species of mushroom because it grows easily and quickly. They cultivated the mushroom’s mycelium, which can form networks that, according to the study, can sense, communicate and transport nutrients. The team found it challenging to engineer a system that could detect and use the small electrical signals from the mycelia to command the robot. “You have to make sure that your electrode (电极) touches in the right position because the mycelia are very thin,” said lead author Anand Mishra. “Then you culture them, and when the mycelia start growing, they wrap around the electrode.” 32．What is special about the two robots in the first paragraph? A．They can control living creatures. B．They can make various movements. C．They are powered by king oyster mushrooms. D．They are partly mushroom and partly machine. 33．What does the author want to show by giving the examples in paragraph 4? A．The future possibilities of biohybrid robots. B．The seriousness of the environmental issues. C．The limitations of biohybrid robots beyond the lab. D．The advantages of biohybrid robots over conventional ones. 34．What did the team find difficult when engineering the robots? A．Wrapping the electrode with the mycelia. B．Arranging the electrode in the right order. C．Developing a system to cultivate the mycelia. D．Positioning the electrode accurately on the mycelia. 35．Which of the following can be a suitable title for the text? A．When Nature Meets Technology B．How Technology Transforms Nature C．King Oyster Mushrooms: the Magic of Nature D．Biohybrid Robotics: the Key to Social Development 第二节 （共 5 小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分 12.5 分） 阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 It was a winter morning when I received a package with no return address. The plain brown wrapping gave no clues, and my name was handwritten in shaky letters. 36 Inside was a small wooden box, its surface carved with intricate patterns of vines and birds. I lifted the lid. A faint scent of cedar (雪松) filled the air. 37 It was my grandmother's brooch (胸针) — the one she always wore to Sunday dinners, with a single pearl suspended like a dewdrop. She had passed away three months earlier, and the family assumed the jewelry had been lost in the chaos of her estate. My hands trembled as I picked it up. 38 The weight of the brooch in my palm felt like a connection to a past I had been neglecting. Then I noticed a slip of paper tucked beneath the velvet lining. The handwriting matched the package: “For the girl who loved listening to stories under the old oak tree. Keep this close when you write yours.” 39 Only Grandma called me that during our summer visits. I hadn’t seen her in two years before her death — too busy with school and friends to visit. Guilt washed over me like a tide. How easily life’s distractions can pull us away from what truly matters. That evening, I examined the brooch under lamplight. 40 The year Grandma and I had spent afternoons recording made-up tales about the birds in her garden. I sat there, tears blurring my vision, as I remembered those carefree days. From that moment on, I vowed never to let life’s busyness overshadow the simple joys of family and connection. A．A glimmer of silver caught my eye. B．The nickname “Storybird” leaped out at me. C．The postmark showed a town 200 miles away. D．On the back was a date, the summer I turned ten. E．Whoever sent this knew my childhood intimately. F．For a moment, I simply stared, afraid it might vanish. G．Layers of dust suggested it hadn’t been opened for decades. 第三部分 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) 阅读下面短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 Sargassum is the smelly seaweed piling up on beaches across the Caribbean. It isn’t something most people 41 kindly. But for Omar de Vazquez, a gardener, it was something like a(an) 42 . Years ago, as part of his gardening business, Omar launched a beach cleanup service to 43 the leafy seaweed. But, as its 44 intensified, he started considering how to turn it into something useful, and in 2018 he 45 a way to use it in building blocks. He started his company----SargaBlock to market the bricks which are being 46 by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) as a sustainable solution to a current environmental problem. “When I look at SargaBlock, it’s like looking in a 47 ,” he says, comparing his company to overcoming his personal 48 , including drug and alcohol addiction. “That was a time when I felt unwanted and 49 , like the sargassum people complained about.” Luckily, Omar grew up in nature and poverty, which 50 his character and turned him into someone who takes action. He wanted to make something good out of something everyone saw as bad. Omar then put his idea into 51 , mixing 40% sargassum with other organic materials, like clay, which he then puts into a block-forming machine. The process was 52 . The UNDP selected Omar’s work for their Accelerator Lab, which 53 and recognizes innovative solutions to environmental challenges globally. The idea is that some of the most timely and creative 54 come from locals suffering from environmental dilemmas 55 . 41. A. look on B. bring in C. give up D. come across 42. A. game B. gift C. race D. trouble 43. A. access B. harvest C. remove D. process 44. A. heat B. image C. presence D. movement 45. A. worked out B. called for C. showed off D. turned down 46. A. highlighted B. undervalued C. overemphasized D. withdrawn 47. A. window B. mirror C. dictionary D. puzzle 48. A. struggles B. fears C. desires D. opinions 49. A. appreciated B. infected C. interrupted D. rejected 50. A. fitted B. shaped C. revealed D. described 51. A. operation B. words C. bills D. profit 52. A. straightforward B. transforming C. slow D. consuming 53. A. combines B. provides C. identifies D. drafts 54. A. responses B. reminder C. appeal D. issues 55. A. alongside B. offshore C. underneath D. firsthand 第二节(共 10 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 15 分) 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。 A cultural relic at Nanchong Museum in Sichuan province has recently become a hot topic. A video posted on the Internet shows a small man-like pottery figure, 56 (refer) to as “Mini Ultraman (奥特曼)” due to its exterior. The figure has a pointed head, big eyes, and its arms 57 (raise) slightly. Strangely enough, it is quite a rare occurrence for the pottery figure to bear such a remarkable 58 (similar) to the animated character Ultraman. Since the video 59 (go) viral, many visitors have rushed to the museum just to have a look at this special figure. A staff member of the museum told reporters that they frequently receive inquiries 60 visitors about the figure. Another member noted, “Actually, we find its head particularly similar to 61 of Ultraman.” This unexpected popularity of it has created an atmosphere 62 the integration of traditional culture and modern popular culture becomes a talking point, 63 (breathe) new life into the museum and fostering a more imaginative mindset among people. This happening, 64 (public) counted as a bridge between heritage and contemporary society, has drawn widespread interest. As for the museum, they hope that this can be an opportunity 65 (let) more people know about the profound history behind cultural relics. 第四部分 写作（共两节，满分 40 分） 第一节（满分 15 分） 假定你是李华，你校要开设一个英语社团。外教 Jenny 提出“English Singing Club”和“English Drama Club”两个 选项供大家选择。请给 Jenny 写一封邮件，内容包括:1.你的选择；2.说明理由。 注意: 1.写作词数应为 80 左右; 2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。 Dear Jenny, I really like the idea of starting an English club in our school. Yours, Li Hua 第二节（满分 25 分） 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。 In a small town, Sarah and her husband, David, ran a modest noodle shop. Over the years, it had become a familiar gathering place for hardworking folks in the neighborhood, especially those who often worked into the late hours. Early in 2022, an elderly wandering man named Robert entered their shop. “Ma’ am, I’ d like a bowl of noodles. Here’ s the money,” the elderly man said, handing over a well-worn and old one-dollar banknote. Sarah exchanged a quick glance with David, for a bowl of noodles cost five dollars. However, David accepted it without hesitation, instructing Sarah to serve Robert. Sarah couldn’t help whispering to her husband, “David, why did you accept this old money and sell the noodles for one dollar?” David gazed at her and responded, “My dear, everyone faces challenges. What’s a bowl of noodles worth anyway? What if he goes hungry?” David’ s friendly smile made Robert feel at home. He wasted no time in wolfing down the hot noodles, as if he hadn’t eaten in days. The couple watched with compassionate eyes as Robert enjoyed every single bite. After finishing his meal, Robert left with satisfaction. Robert returned the next day, and for several days thereafter. They soon learned that Robert had a slight intellectual disability from a very young age. After the passing of his parents, he lived alone, with his elder brother visiting him occasionally. But Robert didn’t want to burden his brother’ s family. David and Sarah silently formed an unspoken agreement with Robert. They genuinely helped him but never mentioned the price. Sarah even added extra vegetables to his bowl sometimes. As months passed by, they developed a bond of kindness. Robert only visited the shop when it was less crowded. Yet, his payments went from regular dollars to small change, until he had no money left. 注意： （1）续写词数应为 150 左右； （2）请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。 Paragraph 1: One day, Robert arrived with something unusual — a hand-drawn banknote. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ Paragraph 2: When David shared Robert’ s story online, it quickly gained attention. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $nullnull