阅读理解、六选四组合练03（训练小卷） （上海高考专用）2026年春季高考英语

阅读理解、六选四组合练03 （满分：60分，推荐用时：60分钟） 第一套 Section A Directions: Read the following four passages. Each passage is followed by several questions. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read. A 【来源】上海市向明中学2024-2025学年高三上学期期中测试英语试卷 “Good morning, everyone. Good morning.” It’s 5:30 a. m. , and a speaker-announcement jolts me awake from a dead sleep. “We have about 20 or so humpback whales outside our ship.” I launch myself out of bed, darting out of my cabin and up to a viewing deck. There they are, arching their knobby dorsal fins gracefully above the water and casting their flukes into the crisp morning air before taking a shallow dive. Shortly after, the sunrise announces itself. Then, icebergs appear out of the mist. “I can’t believe I’m here,” I think. “I can’t believe I’m in Greenland.” I’m on a 12-day expedition cruise aboard Lindblad Expeditions’ National Geographic Endurance, a small boat outfitted with landing craft. Our journey will take us along the thin strip of the “green” in Greenland on its southwest coast — from the post-glacial landscape in Kangerlussuaq in the Arctic Circle, to the tidewater glaciers of Ikerasassuaq — all the way to Iceland. Expedition cruises are the choice of adventurous, nature-loving and sustainability minded passengers who want to visit remote places, while also having a luxury experience. The locations of these expeditions are often threatened by climate change. But burning fossil fuels to visit threatened environments definitely feels ironic. As a travel writer, I’m constantly wrestling with questions such as: Should we be travelling to endangered landscapes at all? Can it even be done sustainably? What is at stake if we don’t travel? As the saying goes: “Tourism is like a fire. You can either cook your food with it, or burn your house down.” If I’m being honest, at least part of my motivation to go to these places is to see them now as they are now — before they’re irreversibly changed or gone. I’m not alone in this. Once a postdoc and research scientist at the University of Michigan, Kurt Hillig takes photos of everything from flowers to glaciers along the way. Record keeping. “This is here now and I’m here now,” he says. “I’m trying to capture it before it disappears, so I can share it with other people show them this is what the world could have been, if we hadn’t been so driven by profit instead of pleasure.” 1．In paragraph 2, the underlined “they” refer to ________. A．the icebergs. B．the dorsal fins. C．other passengers. D．humpback whales. 2．Why did the author and Kurt Hillig board the expedition cruise to Iceland? A．To relax themselves in a luxurious way. B．To see and document the endangered landscapes. C．To do research work on the remote threatened environments. D．To witness the breathtaking sight of humpback whales and icebergs. 3．What attitude does the author hold towards this travel? A．Excited. B．Astonished. C．Regretful. D．Reflective. 4．The best title for the passage is ________. A．Last-Chance Tourism B．A Sustainable Expedition C．Escaping to Endangered Places D．Risky Adventures: The Last Frontier B 【来源】上海市华东师范大学第二附属中学2025-2026学年高三上学期期中考试英语试题 A Framework for Choosing Where and How to Use Gen AI To determine how best to deploy gen AI in your organization, you must first identify the tasks being performed and evaluate them on two factors: What are the consequences if gen AI makes a mistake? What type of knowledge is needed? Once you locate each task within the matrix, you can use the appropriate level of gen AI support. As the framework illustrates, some tasks are best handled by AI alone, others through human-AI collaboration, and some still require purely human judgment, The key is understanding which tasks remain distinctly human.Tacit knowledge Refers to experiential intuitive. and often context-specific insights-such as composing a marketing campaign, interpreting subtle cues. In a negotiation, or making complex strategic trade-offs. Tacit Knowledge is built through lived experience and is difficult to codify making tasks that require it harder for current gen AI models to handle. TYPE OF KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED ·Explicit data Can be clearly articulated. documented, and stored-whether. It Is structured (numerical sales data, inventory databases. operational logs, and the like) or unstructured (written policy documents, customer reviews, and open-ended survey responses, for example). Creative catalyst AI creates options, and human selects. Creating advertisements Outlining sales scripts Developing products Human-first Human leads and does the heavy lifting. AI assists with minor tasks. Setting strategy Integrating enterprise- level systems Making disciplinary decisions. No regrets AI does it all (no human in the loop). Addressing bulk customer inquiries Summarizing documents Screening résumés Quality control AI produces the work, and human verifies it. Drafting high-value contracts Writing production software code Conducting due diligence of records COST OF ERROS Low Errors would result in small inefficiencies or missteps-such as a minor error. In a draft or a missed nuance in a customer response. HIGH Errors could lead to reputational damage legal liability or even physical harm-Incorrect financial fillings, for example, or flawed medical recommendations. 5．The primary purpose of the text is to ________. A．advocate the widespread adoption of Gen AI B．compare the performance of humans and Gen AI C．propose a structured guideline about Gen AI usage D．explain the differences between tacit and explicit data 6．Which of the following tasks is most suitable for the “Human-first” mode? A．Handling large volumes of customer requests B．Checking machine-generated legal agreements C．Setting long-term organizational goals D．Creating initial ad campaign concepts 7．A bank uses Gen AI to generate a risk assessment report from sales data for a loan application. According to the framework, which Gen AI mode is most suitable? A．Creative catalyst B．Human-first C．No Regrets D．Quality Control C 【来源】上海市位育中学2025-2026学年高三上学期期中考试英语试题 In recent years, the food industry has increased its use of labels. Whether the labels say ‘non-GMO’ or ‘no sugar,’ or ‘zero carbohydrates’, consumers are increasingly demanding more information about what’s in their food. One report found that 39 percent of consumers would switch from the brands they currently buy to others that provide clearer, more accurate product information. Food manufacturers are responding to the report with new labels to meet that demand, and they’re doing so with an eye towards giving their products an advantage over the competition, and bolstering profits. This strategy makes intuitive sense. If consumers say they want transparency, tell them exactly what is in your product. That is simply supplying a certain demand. But the marketing strategy in response to this consumer demand has gone beyond showing what is in a product, to labeling what is NOT in the food. These labels are known as “absence claims” labels, and they represent an emerging labeling trend that is harmful both to the consumers who purchase the products and the industry that supplies them. For example, Hunt’s put a “non-GMO” label on its canned crushed tomatoes a few years ago — despite the fact that at the time there was no such thing as a GMO tomato on the market. Some dairy companies are using the “non-GMO” label on their milk, despite the fact that all milk is naturally GMO-free, another label that creates unnecessary fear around food. While creating labels that play on consumer fears and misconceptions about their food may give a company a temporary marketing advantage over competing products on the grocery aisle, in the long term this strategy will have just the opposite effect: by injecting fear into the discourse about our food, we run the risk of eroding consumer trust in not just a single product, but the entire food business. Eventually, it becomes a question in consumers’ minds: Were these foods ever safe? By purchasing and consuming these types of products, have I already done some kind of harm to my family or the planet? For food manufacturers, it will mean damaged consumer trust and lower sales for everyone. And this isn’t just supposition. A recent study found that absence claims labels can create a stigma (污名) around foods even when there is no scientific evidence that they cause harm. It’s clear that food manufacturers must tread carefully when it comes to using absence claims. In addition to the likely negative long-term impact on sales, this verbal trick sends a message that innovations in farming and food processing are unwelcome, eventually leading to less efficiency, fewer choices for consumers, and ultimately, more costly food products. If we allow this kind of labeling to continue, we will all lose. 8．What is the author’s opinion about manufacturers’ new marketing strategy? A．Stressing the absence of certain elements in their products B．Showing the unique nutritional value of their products C．Supplying detailed information of their products D．Designing transparent labels for their products 9．What point does the author make about non-GMO labels? A．They are increasingly attracting customers’ attention. B．They create lots of trouble for GMO food producers. C．They should be used more for vegetables and milk D．They cause anxiety about food among consumers. 10．What does the author say absence claims labels will do to food manufacturers? A．Cause changes in their marketing strategies. B．Help remove stigma around their products C．Erode consumer trust and reduce sales. D．Decrease support from food scientists. 11．What is the best title for this passage? A．Why Consumers Demand Greater Food transparency B．The High Cost of “Free-From” Foodlabels C．The Benefits of Non-GMO Labeling in the Food Industry D．How Absence Claims Labels Build Consumer Trust Section B Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need. 【来源】上海市华东师范大学第二附属中学2025-2026学年高三上学期期中考试英语试题 Who should get the billions from sunken treasure? On Sept. 30, a team working for the Florida-based treasure-hunting company 1715 Fleet Queens Jewels, which has the exclusive rights to search the area and has been combing it for decades, announced that it had recovered more than 1,000 discolored silver coins from the fleet’s wreckage (残骸), as well as several gold coins that shone as brightly as the day they were made. 12 Should such a treasure be for sale? Florida says yes, allowing treasure hunters to profit from the spoils of history as long as they give the state 20 percent of the finds and stick to its relatively loose archaeological (考古学的) guidelines. Most archaeologists, however, say no. 13 Allowing the commercialization of historical handicrafts, they argue, robs scholars of the chance to study them and the rest of us of the chance to see them — and encourages looting. 14 The latter depend on the former to establish the context and origin that makes findings valuable to collectors. Archaeologists, meanwhile, often lack the funding to explore shipwrecks themselves. If it weren’t for the adventurism of treasure hunters, many of the most important wrecks of the Caribbean would not have been found. In 2001, in an effort to keep underwater treasure hunters at bay, UNESCO released its Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage. 15 Spain, unsurprisingly, approved the convention. Among those countries that did not are two whose territorial waters are known to contain untold amounts of lost Spanish treasure: the United States and Colombia. The depths of the ocean are still largely uncharted, and UNESCO estimates that more than 3 million shipwrecks remain undiscovered. As marine robotics allow explorers to go deeper and cover ever more ground, conflicts will continue to arise. History-minded governments should find ways to ease the concerns of archaeologists while rewarding the romantic nerve of treasure hunters and wreck seekers without whom there would be nothing to discuss. A．Yet archaeologists and treasure hunters share an uneasy coexistence. B．As even the infamously unprincipled Indiana Jones would say, “It belongs in a museum.” C．Highlighting the principle of “finders keepers”, this framework has been observed by many nations. D．This financial dynamic fundamentally shapes the interaction between archaeologists and treasure hunters. E．The coins will be catalogued before being distributed, with many probably being sold into private collections. F．The document specifies that the wrecks of war ships remain the property of the countries whose flag they flew. 第二套 Section A Directions: Read the following four passages. Each passage is followed by several questions. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read. A 【来源】上海市七宝中学2024-2025学年高三上学期期中考试英语试卷 From our readers When my husband was hopitalized for almost a year, my house was left to fend for itself. One day, I came home from another long day by my husband’s bedside to discover our flower boxes filled with beautiful flowers. A neighbor did this for me. She wanted me to have something nice to look at when I came home. Ruih Bilotta Churchville, Pennsylvania I suffer from mobility problems, and I don’t have the luxury of having family nearby. Thankfully, I have a kind teenager to do my yard work. One evening, I asked if he’d mind doing some extra work around the house. When I tried to tip him aflerward, he refused. “You’re going to spoil me,” I said. Kyle answered, “Somebody needs to.” Marjorie Ann Smith, Westfield, Indiana I used to work as a nurse’s aide in a hospital, where I befriended an elderly patient. We shared stories and jokes — I even revealed to her my lifelong dream of being an illustrator. Once, after I told her about my sorrowfully tiny apartment and cheap furniture, she said, “Maybe one day someone will come and help you.” Soon after, she passed away. A few days later, there was a knock on my door. It was her son with a truckload of furniture for me. It had belonged to his mother, and she wanted me to have it. And then he handed me this note: “Betty, I promise to put in a good word for you in Heaven so you can get the job you’ve always wanted.” Three months later, I got an illustraing job. My friend had kept her promise. Betty Tenney, Sterling Heights, Michigan I was running through the streets of New York, wet all over thanks to a sudden storm, when I heard a voice: “Do you need an umbrella?” It was a woman standing in the doorway of a hotel. She grabbed an umbrella and handed it to me, saying, “Now you have at least one more reason to believe there’s humanity in this world.” Continuing on my way, I was now not only protected by an umbrella but also by the kindness that shows up now and then in the world. Raimo Moysa, North Salem, New York 1．By “Somebody needs to”, Kyle meant that ________. A．Marjorie deserved the care B．someone else needed the tip C．his work wasn’t worth mentioning D．he didn’t want to spoil Marjorie 2．Which of the following statements is true according to the passage? A．Ruth Bilotta planted flowers in their flower boxes to cheer up her husband. B．Betty Tenney received furniture and a note from the son of one of her patients. C．Raimo Moysa gave a stranger an umbrella during a sudden storm in New York. D．Marjorie Ann Smith’s family helps her with her yard work since she has mobility issues. 3．What are the people in the passage all writing about? A．Difficult moments they once had. B．Acts of kindness they experienced. C．Personal achievements and successes. D．Challenges in their relationships with others. B 【来源】上海市向明中学2024-2025学年高三上学期期中测试英语试卷 Purchase of Online Tickets Temporary exhibitions are accessible for individual viewing to holders of tickets to the relevant museum facility. Certain exhibitions may be visited with separate tickets or with special guided tour tickets. Prices for entry tickets in the main category: Main Museum Complex-500 roubles Main Museum Complex, open-dated ticket*-1200 roubles General Staff building-500 roubles General Staff building, open-dated ticket*-1200 roubles Winter Palace of Peter the Great-700 roubles Menshikov Palace-700 roubles Staraya Derevnya Restoration and Storage Centre -700 roubles Museum of the Imperial Porcelain Factory-300 roubles * This ticket gives the holder the right to visit the museum facility on one of three successive working days. The date for which the ticket was obtained is the first day fora possible visit. Applications for refunds can be made no later than three days before the date of the first possible visit. To find out about other tickets, concessions and the State Hermitage’s social programmes, go to the Visiting Rules section of the website. Electronic tickets are available on the website only for the next 2-4 weeks, entrance tickets from the ticket offices only for the current day. This measure has been introduced to counter profiteering. Buy your tickets only from official sales points operated by the museum itself! Electronic tickets do not need to be exchanged at the ticket offices. To enter the museum, you will need to present the barcode, printed out or stored on a mobile device, to the reader at the entrance turnstile. Holders have the right to return tickets that they have purchased no later than three days before the date of their scheduled visit. Payments for electronic entry tickets can only be refunded to the person who paid for them through the museum website. Details of the rules for buying and returning tickets can be found here. IMPORTANT: If you appear to have not received letters confirming your order or containing the electronic tickets, please check your e-mail’s “Spam” folder. If questions arise, we can be contacted by telephone during the museum’s working hours (daily except Monday,1 Jan and 9 May) ● acquiring or returning tickets: +7 (812) 710-99-60, e-mail: tickets@hermitage.ru ● acquiring tickets for online events: +7 (812) 495-70-68, e-mail: lectoriumonline@hermitage.ru ● guiding services: +7 (812) 571-84-46, e-mail: excursof@hermitage.ru 4．If Joanna wants to be able to visit both Main Museum Complex and General Staff building on any date of the following three days, how much should she pay online? A．1000 roubles B．2400 roubles. C．1700 roubles D．1900 roubles. 5．Which of the following statement is TRUE according to the web page? A．All exhibitions are accessible to ticket holders to the relevant museum facility. B．Holders can return their purchased tickets the day before their visit date. C．Ticket offices only offer entrance tickets for the current day to visitors. D．Electronic tickets should be printed out for better recognition by the reader. 6．What can you do if you don’t receive a confirmation letter? A．Contact the staff of the museum by telephone at your convenience. B．Send e-mails to the museum staff on any of the weekdays. C．Go to the guiding center in person with the screenshot of your order. D．Search other folders in your email for the filtered messages. C 【来源】上海市华东师范大学第二附属中学2025-2026学年高三上学期期中考试英语试题 The Octopus Organization, inspired by the remarkably adaptive, curious, and intelligent sea dweller. That animal, whose arms can think and act independently yet work in perfect concert, offers a model for building companies that can thrive in complexity and embrace continuous change. Octopus Orgs tap the intelligence of their people, integrating a range of efforts naturally and gracefully. They sense subtle signals, learning and shifting course at speed to navigate uncertainty. A complex world is like the ocean, the home of the octopus — where a small shift in the current can create unpredictable effects miles away. The shifts and unpredictability make it difficult to navigate; you can only sense, respond, and learn from the flow. This is the world the Octopus Org is designed for, an environment where success comes not from rigid control but from distributed intelligence, continuous learning, and adaptation. To get a sense of what this looks like in a business setting, think of how most companies structure strategy meetings. The very design of the typical meeting room — dominated by a large screen for presentations, often with no whiteboard in sight — signals that it is a space for the consumption of information, not the creation of ideas. Speakers adhere to a set agenda, deliver carefully prepared slides, and stick to their assigned time. Questions are reserved for the end and are often perfunctory (草率的, 敷衍的) or performative. The information flow is tightly controlled and consistently structured. In the Octopus Org, by comparison, meetings have clearly defined outcomes but not always a fixed agenda. Leaders encourage people to surface ideas rapidly and ask provocative questions. You’ll often find a diverse group from across the company — frontline workers and executives, new and old voices — gathered around a whiteboard contributors build on and challenge one another’s arguments. Conversation flows, tangents are explored, and unexpected connections emerge. And look at how Tin Man Orgs, where a company’s strategy can be optimized through analysis, specialization, and control, with no inherent uncertainty, treat innovation as a department, creating innovation labs that are physically and culturally isolated. Teams develop ideas in isolation and then hand them off to “the business” for implementation. Octopus Orgs, in contrast, understand that innovation is a distributed capability, the daily, obsessive work of meeting customer needs in ever better ways. They create mechanisms for invention everywhere, entrusting small, decentralized teams with end-to-end ownership of customer problems. This ensures the people closest to the customer are the ones who experiment, learn, and build what’s coming next. Ultimately, all of these Octopus Org behaviors orbit around a single, nonnegotiable question: “Does this create more value for our customers?” The obsessive focus drives employee engagement, which in turn fuels the innovation and resilience needed to thrive. The rewards are cultural, profound, and measurable. 7．The description of the octopus’s arms serves to illustrate ________. A．the distributed yet unified intelligence B．sensing subtle signals amid uncertainty C．the evolution in complex, unpredictable settings D．continuous learning and adaptation to change 8．A retail company wants to become more “Octopus-like”. Which of these changes would be most in line with that goal? A．Stick to clearly defined goal and set time. B．Focus on slides and controlled flow. C．Create a specialized lab for innovation. D．Use whiteboards for diverse collaboration. 9．How does Octopus Orgs differ from Tin Man Orgs in innovation? A．By relying on analysis and control. B．By treating innovation as a department. C．By seeing innovation as everyone’s job. D．By focusing on customer value first. 10．What’s the main idea of the passage? A．Why traditional meeting structures prevent innovation. B．How to succeed in unpredictable business conditions. C．A model for building companies in a complex world. D．A focus on building distributed innovation capabilities Section B Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need. 【来源】上海市延安中学2024-2025学年高三上学期期中英语试卷 Pedestrian: a word fitted to the most dull, tedious and monotonous moments of life. We don’t want to live pedestrian lives. Yet maybe we should. Many of history’s great thinkers have been pedestrians. Henry David Thoreau and William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Walt Whitman, Friedrich Nietzsche and Virginia Woolf — all were writers who tied the working of their minds to the steady movement of their feet. 11 How many of us today are able to free ourselves from the page and head out the door when we rise from our desks? Even observing the dictates of nature, breathing deeply out in the open air as we set our legs into motion, it’s likely we need to accomplish the undertaking as quickly and efficiently as possible. But in so doing, perhaps we still miss the essence of the activity itself. We abandon the art of walking. ‘Walking with a purpose’ is usually regarded as a positive thing, taken as a sign that people are focused, with eyes on an end-goal or prize. But the art of walking is not about purpose or aim. 12 The art of walking is all about this purposeless purpose. These days, it’s difficult to understand the point of doing something, or doing anything, without an underlying aim. The desperate attempt to get somewhere, and to be on time about it, amounts to a Sisyphean struggle against the clock: when we reach a destination, we must immediately set off again, intent on the next stopping place. The point of the journey is no more than to ‘get there’. And walking is increasingly shaped by technological gadgets worn on wrists or gripped in hands. 13 To live with eyes on the screen is to be attached, stuck in the frame, taking in what is presented to us and re-presented to us again. But representation is not experience. To live life through representations is to live passively, to receive rather than to experience. It is also, we fear, to live the life of a follower. Instead of asking What do I see? How might I tell you? we are told instead how to see, and often what to feel — much of that is determined by algorithm. The art of walking is contrary to ‘screening’ the world we live in, and there is no pre-programmed set of rules or calculations involved. 14 We don’t need to visit a museum in order to be absorbed in artful perception and contemplation. We can just step out the front door, pay attention, and perceive and feel for ourselves. A．This, according to Kant, is the freedom of any form of art. B．Walking with disinterest requires a little effort in the beginning, and it comes with practice. C．In doing so, they were in step with the opposing forces of motion and rest, a force written into the laws of nature. D．As Immanuel Kant maintained, the creation and comprehension of beauty is embodied in ‘a purposiveness without a definite purpose’. E．They walk for a variety of purposes, from practical ones like commuting or walking the dog, to symbolic acts like joining a protest march. F．We spend an increasing amount of time ‘screening’ the world — taking in most of life through a contracted frame that captures objects of immediate interest. 1 / 1 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $ 阅读理解、六选四组合练03 （满分：60分，推荐用时：60分钟） 第一套 Section A Directions: Read the following four passages. Each passage is followed by several questions. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read. A 【来源】上海市向明中学2024-2025学年高三上学期期中测试英语试卷 “Good morning, everyone. Good morning.” It’s 5:30 a. m. , and a speaker-announcement jolts me awake from a dead sleep. “We have about 20 or so humpback whales outside our ship.” I launch myself out of bed, darting out of my cabin and up to a viewing deck. There they are, arching their knobby dorsal fins gracefully above the water and casting their flukes into the crisp morning air before taking a shallow dive. Shortly after, the sunrise announces itself. Then, icebergs appear out of the mist. “I can’t believe I’m here,” I think. “I can’t believe I’m in Greenland.” I’m on a 12-day expedition cruise aboard Lindblad Expeditions’ National Geographic Endurance, a small boat outfitted with landing craft. Our journey will take us along the thin strip of the “green” in Greenland on its southwest coast — from the post-glacial landscape in Kangerlussuaq in the Arctic Circle, to the tidewater glaciers of Ikerasassuaq — all the way to Iceland. Expedition cruises are the choice of adventurous, nature-loving and sustainability minded passengers who want to visit remote places, while also having a luxury experience. The locations of these expeditions are often threatened by climate change. But burning fossil fuels to visit threatened environments definitely feels ironic. As a travel writer, I’m constantly wrestling with questions such as: Should we be travelling to endangered landscapes at all? Can it even be done sustainably? What is at stake if we don’t travel? As the saying goes: “Tourism is like a fire. You can either cook your food with it, or burn your house down.” If I’m being honest, at least part of my motivation to go to these places is to see them now as they are now — before they’re irreversibly changed or gone. I’m not alone in this. Once a postdoc and research scientist at the University of Michigan, Kurt Hillig takes photos of everything from flowers to glaciers along the way. Record keeping. “This is here now and I’m here now,” he says. “I’m trying to capture it before it disappears, so I can share it with other people show them this is what the world could have been, if we hadn’t been so driven by profit instead of pleasure.” 1．In paragraph 2, the underlined “they” refer to ________. A．the icebergs. B．the dorsal fins. C．other passengers. D．humpback whales. 2．Why did the author and Kurt Hillig board the expedition cruise to Iceland? A．To relax themselves in a luxurious way. B．To see and document the endangered landscapes. C．To do research work on the remote threatened environments. D．To witness the breathtaking sight of humpback whales and icebergs. 3．What attitude does the author hold towards this travel? A．Excited. B．Astonished. C．Regretful. D．Reflective. 4．The best title for the passage is ________. A．Last-Chance Tourism B．A Sustainable Expedition C．Escaping to Endangered Places D．Risky Adventures: The Last Frontier 【答案】1．D 2．B 3．D 4．A 【导语】本文是一篇夹叙夹议的文章。本文主要讲述了作者乘坐探险游轮前往冰岛，途中看到了濒危的座头鲸和冰山，由此引发了作者对于“末日旅游”的思考。作者认为，在濒危之地被彻底改变或消失之前，见证这些美景是非常有意义的。 1．词句猜测题。根据第一段中“We have about 20 or so humpback whales outside our ship(我们船外有大约20头座头鲸)”以及第二段“…, arching their knobby dorsal fins gracefully above the water and casting their flukes into the crisp morning air before taking a shallow dive.(……优雅地将它们凹凸不平的背鳍弓起在水面之上，在潜入浅滩之前，将它们的尾鳍甩向清新的早晨空气中)”可知，此处they指代上文提到的“humpback whales（座头鲸）”，此处指座头鲸在水面优雅地活动。故选D项。 2．细节理解题。根据第四段“Expedition cruises are the choice of adventurous, nature-loving and sustainability-minded passengers who want to visit remote places, while also having a luxury experience. The locations of these expeditions are often threatened by climate change.(探险巡航是那些爱冒险、热爱大自然、注重可持续发展的乘客的选择，他们想参观偏远的地方，同时也想体验奢华之旅。这些探险的地点经常受到气候变化的威胁)”以及第七段“If I’m being honest, at least part of my motivation to go to these places is to see them now as they are now —before they’re irreversibly changed or gone. I’m not alone in this. (如果我诚实地说，我之所以去这些地方，至少有一部分原因是想看看它们现在的样子——在它们被不可逆转地改变或消失之前。我不是唯一有这种想法的人)”以及第八段“I’m trying to capture it before it disappears, so I can share it with other people show them this is what the world could have been, if we hadn’t been so driven by profit instead of pleasure.”(我想在它消失之前捕捉到它，这样我就可以把它分享给其他人，告诉他们，如果我们没有被利润驱使而不是快乐的话，这个世界可能就是这个样子)”可知，作者和Kurt Hillig乘坐探险游轮前往冰岛是为了看到并记录这些濒危的景观，在它们消失之前去记录它们并分享世界本来的样子给他人。故选B项。 3．推理判断题。根据文章第五段“But burning fossil fuels to visit threatened environments definitely feels ironic.(但燃烧化石燃料去参观受到威胁的环境确实让人感到讽刺)”及“Should we be travelling to endangered landscapes at all? Can it even be done sustainably? What is at stake if we don’t travel?(我们是否应该去旅行这些濒危的景观呢？这样做能持续发展吗？如果我们不去旅行，有什么风险？)”可知，作者对这次旅行持有反思的态度，反思的人类的行为。故选D项。 4．主旨大意题。通读全文，尤其最后一段“I’m trying to capture it before it disappears, so I can share it with other people show them this is what the world could have been, if we hadn’t been so driven by profit instead of pleasure.”(我正在尝试在它消失之前捕捉到这些画面，这样我就可以与其他人分享，向他们展示如果我们不是如此追求利润而是追求快乐，世界本可能是什么样子。)”可知，文章主要讲述了作者和Kurt Hillig的“末日旅游”，他们想在濒危之地被彻底改变或消失之前，见证这些濒危之地的美景。由此可知，A选项“Last-Chance Tourism(末日旅游)”最符合文章标题。故选A项。 B 【来源】上海市华东师范大学第二附属中学2025-2026学年高三上学期期中考试英语试题 A Framework for Choosing Where and How to Use Gen AI To determine how best to deploy gen AI in your organization, you must first identify the tasks being performed and evaluate them on two factors: What are the consequences if gen AI makes a mistake? What type of knowledge is needed? Once you locate each task within the matrix, you can use the appropriate level of gen AI support. As the framework illustrates, some tasks are best handled by AI alone, others through human-AI collaboration, and some still require purely human judgment, The key is understanding which tasks remain distinctly human.Tacit knowledge Refers to experiential intuitive. and often context-specific insights-such as composing a marketing campaign, interpreting subtle cues. In a negotiation, or making complex strategic trade-offs. Tacit Knowledge is built through lived experience and is difficult to codify making tasks that require it harder for current gen AI models to handle. TYPE OF KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED ·Explicit data Can be clearly articulated. documented, and stored-whether. It Is structured (numerical sales data, inventory databases. operational logs, and the like) or unstructured (written policy documents, customer reviews, and open-ended survey responses, for example). Creative catalyst AI creates options, and human selects. Creating advertisements Outlining sales scripts Developing products Human-first Human leads and does the heavy lifting. AI assists with minor tasks. Setting strategy Integrating enterprise- level systems Making disciplinary decisions. No regrets AI does it all (no human in the loop). Addressing bulk customer inquiries Summarizing documents Screening résumés Quality control AI produces the work, and human verifies it. Drafting high-value contracts Writing production software code Conducting due diligence of records COST OF ERROS Low Errors would result in small inefficiencies or missteps-such as a minor error. In a draft or a missed nuance in a customer response. HIGH Errors could lead to reputational damage legal liability or even physical harm-Incorrect financial fillings, for example, or flawed medical recommendations. 5．The primary purpose of the text is to ________. A．advocate the widespread adoption of Gen AI B．compare the performance of humans and Gen AI C．propose a structured guideline about Gen AI usage D．explain the differences between tacit and explicit data 6．Which of the following tasks is most suitable for the “Human-first” mode? A．Handling large volumes of customer requests B．Checking machine-generated legal agreements C．Setting long-term organizational goals D．Creating initial ad campaign concepts 7．A bank uses Gen AI to generate a risk assessment report from sales data for a loan application. According to the framework, which Gen AI mode is most suitable? A．Creative catalyst B．Human-first C．No Regrets D．Quality Control 【答案】5．C 6．C 7．D 【导语】本文是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍选择生成式AI应用场景和方式的框架，结合失误成本、知识类型划分应用模式。 5．推理判断题。根据第一段中的“To determine how best to deploy gen AI in your organization, you must first identify the tasks being performed and evaluate them on two factors: What are the consequences if gen AI makes a mistake? What type of knowledge is needed? Once you locate each task within the matrix, you can use the appropriate level of gen AI support.(要确定如何在你的组织中最佳部署生成式AI，你必须首先确定正在执行的任务，并从两个因素评估它们：如果生成式AI出错会有什么后果？需要何种类型的知识？一旦你在矩阵中定位每个任务，就可以使用相应层级的生成 AI支持)”可知，本文核心是提出一套关于生成式AI使用的结构化指导方案。故选C项。 6．细节理解题。根据文中Human-first板块下的内容 “Human leads and does the heavy lifting. AI assists with minor tasks. Setting strategy; Integrating enterprise-level systems; Making disciplinary decisions.(人类主导并承担主要工作。AI协助处理次要任务。制定战略；整合企业级系统；作出纪律处分决定)”可知，Setting long-term organizational goals（制定组织长期目标）属于制定战略范畴，最适合Human-first模式。故选C项。 7．推理判断题。根据文中Explicit data的定义“Can be clearly articulated, documented, and stored-whether it is structured (numerical sales data, inventory databases, operational logs, and the like) or unstructured (written policy documents, customer reviews, and open-ended survey responses, for example).(可以清晰阐述、记录和存储的数据 —— 无论是结构化的（数字销售数据、库存数据库、运营日志等）还是非结构化的（例如书面政策文件、客户评价、开放式调查回复）)”，以及 Quality control板块的描述“AI produces the work, and human verifies it. Drafting high-value contracts; Writing production software code; Conducting due diligence of records.(AI完成工作，人类进行验证。起草高价值合同；编写生产软件代码；对记录进行尽职调查)”可知，银行用生成式AI基于销售数据（显性数据）生成贷款申请风险评估报告，该报告出错可能带来金融风险（失误成本高），需人类验证，符合Quality Control模式特征。故选D项。 C 【来源】上海市位育中学2025-2026学年高三上学期期中考试英语试题 In recent years, the food industry has increased its use of labels. Whether the labels say ‘non-GMO’ or ‘no sugar,’ or ‘zero carbohydrates’, consumers are increasingly demanding more information about what’s in their food. One report found that 39 percent of consumers would switch from the brands they currently buy to others that provide clearer, more accurate product information. Food manufacturers are responding to the report with new labels to meet that demand, and they’re doing so with an eye towards giving their products an advantage over the competition, and bolstering profits. This strategy makes intuitive sense. If consumers say they want transparency, tell them exactly what is in your product. That is simply supplying a certain demand. But the marketing strategy in response to this consumer demand has gone beyond showing what is in a product, to labeling what is NOT in the food. These labels are known as “absence claims” labels, and they represent an emerging labeling trend that is harmful both to the consumers who purchase the products and the industry that supplies them. For example, Hunt’s put a “non-GMO” label on its canned crushed tomatoes a few years ago — despite the fact that at the time there was no such thing as a GMO tomato on the market. Some dairy companies are using the “non-GMO” label on their milk, despite the fact that all milk is naturally GMO-free, another label that creates unnecessary fear around food. While creating labels that play on consumer fears and misconceptions about their food may give a company a temporary marketing advantage over competing products on the grocery aisle, in the long term this strategy will have just the opposite effect: by injecting fear into the discourse about our food, we run the risk of eroding consumer trust in not just a single product, but the entire food business. Eventually, it becomes a question in consumers’ minds: Were these foods ever safe? By purchasing and consuming these types of products, have I already done some kind of harm to my family or the planet? For food manufacturers, it will mean damaged consumer trust and lower sales for everyone. And this isn’t just supposition. A recent study found that absence claims labels can create a stigma (污名) around foods even when there is no scientific evidence that they cause harm. It’s clear that food manufacturers must tread carefully when it comes to using absence claims. In addition to the likely negative long-term impact on sales, this verbal trick sends a message that innovations in farming and food processing are unwelcome, eventually leading to less efficiency, fewer choices for consumers, and ultimately, more costly food products. If we allow this kind of labeling to continue, we will all lose. 8．What is the author’s opinion about manufacturers’ new marketing strategy? A．Stressing the absence of certain elements in their products B．Showing the unique nutritional value of their products C．Supplying detailed information of their products D．Designing transparent labels for their products 9．What point does the author make about non-GMO labels? A．They are increasingly attracting customers’ attention. B．They create lots of trouble for GMO food producers. C．They should be used more for vegetables and milk D．They cause anxiety about food among consumers. 10．What does the author say absence claims labels will do to food manufacturers? A．Cause changes in their marketing strategies. B．Help remove stigma around their products C．Erode consumer trust and reduce sales. D．Decrease support from food scientists. 11．What is the best title for this passage? A．Why Consumers Demand Greater Food transparency B．The High Cost of “Free-From” Foodlabels C．The Benefits of Non-GMO Labeling in the Food Industry D．How Absence Claims Labels Build Consumer Trust 【答案】8．A 9．D 10．C 11．B 【导语】这是一篇议论文。探讨了食品行业中“无添加声明”标签这一新兴营销策略，分析其对消费者和食品行业的潜在危害。 8．细节理解题。根据第二段“But the marketing strategy in response to this consumer demand has gone beyond showing what is in a product, to labeling what is NOT in the food. These labels are known as “absence claims” labels, and they represent an emerging labeling trend that is harmful both to the consumers who purchase the products and the industry that supplies them. (但是，针对这种消费者需求的营销策略已经超越了显示产品中含有什么，而是标注食品中不含什么。这些标签被称为“无添加声明”标签，它们代表了一种新兴的标签趋势，对购买产品的消费者和供应产品的行业都有害)”可知，作者认为制造商的新营销策略是强调其产品中没有某些成分。故选A。 9．细节理解题。根据第三段“Some dairy companies are using the “non-GMO” label on their milk, despite the fact that all milk is naturally GMO-free, another label that creates unnecessary fear around food. (尽管事实上所有的牛奶都是天然的不含转基因的，一些乳制品公司在他们的牛奶上使用“非转基因”的标签，这种标签在食物方面制造了不必要的恐惧)”可知，作者认为非转基因标签会引发消费者对食物的焦虑。故选D。 10．细节理解题。根据倒数第二段“For food manufacturers, it will mean damaged consumer trust and lower sales for everyone. (对食品制造商来说，这将意味着消费者信任受损，所有人的销售额都会下降)”可知，作者认为“无添加声明”标签会侵蚀消费者信任并减少食品制造商的销售额。故选C。 11．主旨大意题。根据最后一段“It’s clear that food manufacturers must tread carefully when it comes to using absence claims. In addition to the likely negative long-term impact on sales, this verbal trick sends a message that innovations in farming and food processing are unwelcome, eventually leading to less efficiency, fewer choices for consumers, and ultimately, more costly food products. If we allow this kind of labeling to continue, we will all lose. (很明显，食品制造商在使用“无添加声明”时必须谨慎。除了可能对销售产生长期负面影响外，这种文字技巧还传递了一个信息，即农业和食品加工的创新不受欢迎，最终会导致效率降低、消费者选择减少，最终食品价格上涨。如果我们允许这种标签继续存在，我们都会蒙受损失)”以及通读全文可知，文章主要论述了“无添加声明”标签这种营销策略的高成本，包括对消费者信任和行业发展的负面影响，B选项“‘无添加’食品标签的高成本”最能概括文章主旨。故选B。 Section B Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need. 【来源】上海市华东师范大学第二附属中学2025-2026学年高三上学期期中考试英语试题 Who should get the billions from sunken treasure? On Sept. 30, a team working for the Florida-based treasure-hunting company 1715 Fleet Queens Jewels, which has the exclusive rights to search the area and has been combing it for decades, announced that it had recovered more than 1,000 discolored silver coins from the fleet’s wreckage (残骸), as well as several gold coins that shone as brightly as the day they were made. 12 Should such a treasure be for sale? Florida says yes, allowing treasure hunters to profit from the spoils of history as long as they give the state 20 percent of the finds and stick to its relatively loose archaeological (考古学的) guidelines. Most archaeologists, however, say no. 13 Allowing the commercialization of historical handicrafts, they argue, robs scholars of the chance to study them and the rest of us of the chance to see them — and encourages looting. 14 The latter depend on the former to establish the context and origin that makes findings valuable to collectors. Archaeologists, meanwhile, often lack the funding to explore shipwrecks themselves. If it weren’t for the adventurism of treasure hunters, many of the most important wrecks of the Caribbean would not have been found. In 2001, in an effort to keep underwater treasure hunters at bay, UNESCO released its Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage. 15 Spain, unsurprisingly, approved the convention. Among those countries that did not are two whose territorial waters are known to contain untold amounts of lost Spanish treasure: the United States and Colombia. The depths of the ocean are still largely uncharted, and UNESCO estimates that more than 3 million shipwrecks remain undiscovered. As marine robotics allow explorers to go deeper and cover ever more ground, conflicts will continue to arise. History-minded governments should find ways to ease the concerns of archaeologists while rewarding the romantic nerve of treasure hunters and wreck seekers without whom there would be nothing to discuss. A．Yet archaeologists and treasure hunters share an uneasy coexistence. B．As even the infamously unprincipled Indiana Jones would say, “It belongs in a museum.” C．Highlighting the principle of “finders keepers”, this framework has been observed by many nations. D．This financial dynamic fundamentally shapes the interaction between archaeologists and treasure hunters. E．The coins will be catalogued before being distributed, with many probably being sold into private collections. F．The document specifies that the wrecks of war ships remain the property of the countries whose flag they flew. 【答案】12．E 13．B 14．A 15．F 【导语】本文是一篇议论文。文章主要讲述了沉船宝藏的归属与商业化争议，探讨了寻宝者、考古学家的不同立场及联合国相关公约的实施情况，呼吁政府平衡各方利益。 12．上文“On Sept. 30, a team working for the Florida-based treasure-hunting company 1715 Fleet Queens Jewels, which has the exclusive rights to search the area and has been combing it for decades, announced that it had recovered more than 1,000 discolored silver coins from the fleet’s wreckage (残骸) , as well as several gold coins that shone as brightly as the day they were made. ( 9月30日，佛罗里达州寻宝公司“1715 舰队女王珠宝”的一支团队宣布，他们从该舰队的残骸中打捞起1000多枚已变色的银币，以及数枚光亮如新的金币。该公司拥有该区域的独家搜索权，数十年来一直在此地搜寻。)”提到寻宝团队从沉船残骸中打捞到1000多枚变色银币和数枚仍光亮如新的金币。选项E“The coins will be catalogued before being distributed, with many probably being sold into private collections. (这些硬币将先被分类编目，随后进行分配，其中许多可能会被卖给私人收藏家。)”既符合打捞后处理文物的逻辑顺序，又为后文埋下伏笔，衔接自然。故选E。 13．上文“Should such a treasure be for sale? Florida says yes, allowing treasure hunters to profit from the spoils of history as long as they give the state 20 percent of the finds and stick to its relatively loose archaeological (考古学的) guidelines. Most archaeologists, however, say no. (这样的宝藏应该出售吗？佛罗里达州给出了肯定答案：只要寻宝者向该州上缴20%的发现物，并遵守其相对宽松的考古准则，就可以从这些历史遗物中获利。然而，大多数考古学家对此持反对态度。)”明确“佛罗里达州允许寻宝者获利”与“大多数考古学家反对”的对立观点。选项B“As even the infamously unprincipled Indiana Jones would say, “It belongs in a museum.” (即便是臭名昭著、毫无原则的Indiana Jones也会说：“它属于博物馆。”)”延续上文内容，通过经典影视角色的台词，生动且有力地表达了文物应公开展示供研究和观赏的态度。故选B。 14．下文“The latter depend on the former to establish the context and origin that makes findings valuable to collectors. Archaeologists, meanwhile, often lack the funding to explore shipwrecks themselves. If it weren’t for the adventurism of treasure hunters, many of the most important wreck s of the Caribbean would not have been found. (后者依赖前者确定文物的背景和来源，而这正是让发现物对收藏家具有价值的关键。与此同时，考古学家自身往往缺乏探索沉船的资金。如果不是因为寻宝者的冒险精神，加勒比地区许多最重要的沉船残骸可能永远不会被发现。)”提到后者（寻宝者）依赖前者（考古学家）确定文物的背景和来源以提升其收藏价值，而考古学家往往缺乏资金探索沉船，核心是说明考古学家与寻宝者之间相互依赖但又存在矛盾的关系。选项A“Yet archaeologists and treasure hunters share an uneasy coexistence. (然而，考古学家和寻宝者之间存在着一种微妙的共存关系。)”以“Yet”转折承接前文的对立观点，引出后文对共存关系的具体解释，起到承上启下的作用。故选A。 15．上文“In 2001, in an effort to keep underwater treasure hunters at bay, UNESCO released its Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage. (2001年，为了遏制水下寻宝者的行为，联合国教科文组织（UNESCO）发布了《保护水下文化遗产公约》。)”提到联合国教科文组织（UNESCO）在2001年发布了《保护水下文化遗产公约》。选项F“The document specifies that the wrecks of war ships remain the property of the countries whose flag they flew. (该文件明确规定，战舰残骸仍归其悬挂国旗所属的国家所有。)”中的“the document”对应前文的 “Convention”，“specifies”（明确规定）符合公约类文件的表述逻辑。故选F。 第二套 Section A Directions: Read the following four passages. Each passage is followed by several questions. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read. A 【来源】上海市七宝中学2024-2025学年高三上学期期中考试英语试卷 From our readers When my husband was hopitalized for almost a year, my house was left to fend for itself. One day, I came home from another long day by my husband’s bedside to discover our flower boxes filled with beautiful flowers. A neighbor did this for me. She wanted me to have something nice to look at when I came home. Ruih Bilotta Churchville, Pennsylvania I suffer from mobility problems, and I don’t have the luxury of having family nearby. Thankfully, I have a kind teenager to do my yard work. One evening, I asked if he’d mind doing some extra work around the house. When I tried to tip him aflerward, he refused. “You’re going to spoil me,” I said. Kyle answered, “Somebody needs to.” Marjorie Ann Smith, Westfield, Indiana I used to work as a nurse’s aide in a hospital, where I befriended an elderly patient. We shared stories and jokes — I even revealed to her my lifelong dream of being an illustrator. Once, after I told her about my sorrowfully tiny apartment and cheap furniture, she said, “Maybe one day someone will come and help you.” Soon after, she passed away. A few days later, there was a knock on my door. It was her son with a truckload of furniture for me. It had belonged to his mother, and she wanted me to have it. And then he handed me this note: “Betty, I promise to put in a good word for you in Heaven so you can get the job you’ve always wanted.” Three months later, I got an illustraing job. My friend had kept her promise. Betty Tenney, Sterling Heights, Michigan I was running through the streets of New York, wet all over thanks to a sudden storm, when I heard a voice: “Do you need an umbrella?” It was a woman standing in the doorway of a hotel. She grabbed an umbrella and handed it to me, saying, “Now you have at least one more reason to believe there’s humanity in this world.” Continuing on my way, I was now not only protected by an umbrella but also by the kindness that shows up now and then in the world. Raimo Moysa, North Salem, New York 1．By “Somebody needs to”, Kyle meant that ________. A．Marjorie deserved the care B．someone else needed the tip C．his work wasn’t worth mentioning D．he didn’t want to spoil Marjorie 2．Which of the following statements is true according to the passage? A．Ruth Bilotta planted flowers in their flower boxes to cheer up her husband. B．Betty Tenney received furniture and a note from the son of one of her patients. C．Raimo Moysa gave a stranger an umbrella during a sudden storm in New York. D．Marjorie Ann Smith’s family helps her with her yard work since she has mobility issues. 3．What are the people in the passage all writing about? A．Difficult moments they once had. B．Acts of kindness they experienced. C．Personal achievements and successes. D．Challenges in their relationships with others. 【答案】1．A 2．B 3．B 【导语】这是一篇记叙文。四位读者分别讲述经历：邻居为住院丈夫的家种花，少年帮行动不便者干活拒小费，患者助护士实现梦想，女士雨天赠伞，皆为所遇善举。 1．词句猜测题。根据第二段“I suffer from mobility problems, and I don’t have the luxury of having family nearby. Thankfully, I have a kind teenager to do my yard work. One evening, I asked if he’d mind doing some extra work around the house. When I tried to tip him aflerward, he refused. “You’re going to spoil me,” I said. Kyle answered, “Somebody needs to.”(我行动不便，而且身边也没有亲人可以依靠。好在有个善良的少年会帮我打理花园。有一天晚上，我问他是否愿意多做一些家里的杂活。后来我想要给他一点小费时，他拒绝了。我说：“你会让我养成依赖的习惯的。”凯尔回答道：“总得有人这么做吧。”)”可知，Marjorie因行动不便，少年Kyle帮忙做庭院工作且拒绝小费。Kyle说“Somebody needs to”，结合语境可知他意为“总有人需要（这样照顾你）”，即Marjorie值得照顾。故选A。 2．细节理解题。根据第三段“I used to work as a nurse’s aide in a hospital, where I befriended an elderly patient.(我曾在一家医院担任护士助理，在那里我结识了一位老年病人。)”和“A few days later, there was a knock on my door. It was her son with a truckload of furniture for me. It had belonged to his mother, and she wanted me to have it. And then he handed me this note: “Betty, I promise to put in a good word for you in Heaven so you can get the job you’ve always wanted.”(几天后，有人敲了我的门。是她的儿子，他开着一辆卡车送来了一大堆家具给我。这些家具原本是她母亲的，她希望我能收下。然后他递给我一张便条：“贝蒂，我保证会向天堂里的她好好说说你的事，这样你就能得到一直想要的工作了。”)”可知，B选项“Betty Tenney收到了家具以及她一位病人的儿子留下的一张便条”正确。故选B。 3．主旨大意题。根据文中四人分别讲述了邻居种花、少年帮忙、患者兑现承诺、陌生女士赠伞的经历，可知，文章这些人所写的都是关于他们所经历的善举。故选B。 B 【来源】上海市向明中学2024-2025学年高三上学期期中测试英语试卷 Purchase of Online Tickets Temporary exhibitions are accessible for individual viewing to holders of tickets to the relevant museum facility. Certain exhibitions may be visited with separate tickets or with special guided tour tickets. Prices for entry tickets in the main category: Main Museum Complex-500 roubles Main Museum Complex, open-dated ticket*-1200 roubles General Staff building-500 roubles General Staff building, open-dated ticket*-1200 roubles Winter Palace of Peter the Great-700 roubles Menshikov Palace-700 roubles Staraya Derevnya Restoration and Storage Centre -700 roubles Museum of the Imperial Porcelain Factory-300 roubles * This ticket gives the holder the right to visit the museum facility on one of three successive working days. The date for which the ticket was obtained is the first day fora possible visit. Applications for refunds can be made no later than three days before the date of the first possible visit. To find out about other tickets, concessions and the State Hermitage’s social programmes, go to the Visiting Rules section of the website. Electronic tickets are available on the website only for the next 2-4 weeks, entrance tickets from the ticket offices only for the current day. This measure has been introduced to counter profiteering. Buy your tickets only from official sales points operated by the museum itself! Electronic tickets do not need to be exchanged at the ticket offices. To enter the museum, you will need to present the barcode, printed out or stored on a mobile device, to the reader at the entrance turnstile. Holders have the right to return tickets that they have purchased no later than three days before the date of their scheduled visit. Payments for electronic entry tickets can only be refunded to the person who paid for them through the museum website. Details of the rules for buying and returning tickets can be found here. IMPORTANT: If you appear to have not received letters confirming your order or containing the electronic tickets, please check your e-mail’s “Spam” folder. If questions arise, we can be contacted by telephone during the museum’s working hours (daily except Monday,1 Jan and 9 May) ● acquiring or returning tickets: +7 (812) 710-99-60, e-mail: tickets@hermitage.ru ● acquiring tickets for online events: +7 (812) 495-70-68, e-mail: lectoriumonline@hermitage.ru ● guiding services: +7 (812) 571-84-46, e-mail: excursof@hermitage.ru 4．If Joanna wants to be able to visit both Main Museum Complex and General Staff building on any date of the following three days, how much should she pay online? A．1000 roubles B．2400 roubles. C．1700 roubles D．1900 roubles. 5．Which of the following statement is TRUE according to the web page? A．All exhibitions are accessible to ticket holders to the relevant museum facility. B．Holders can return their purchased tickets the day before their visit date. C．Ticket offices only offer entrance tickets for the current day to visitors. D．Electronic tickets should be printed out for better recognition by the reader. 6．What can you do if you don’t receive a confirmation letter? A．Contact the staff of the museum by telephone at your convenience. B．Send e-mails to the museum staff on any of the weekdays. C．Go to the guiding center in person with the screenshot of your order. D．Search other folders in your email for the filtered messages. 【答案】4．B 5．C 6．D 【导语】本文是一篇应用文。本文主要介绍了购买冬宫（艾尔米塔什博物馆）门票的相关信息，包括不同场馆的门票价格、不记名票的使用规则、电子票的购买方式及入场方法、退票规则以及联系方式等。 4．细节理解题。根据Price for entry tickets in the main category部分的“Main Museum Complex-500 roubles; Main Museum Complex, open-dated ticket*-1200 roubles; General Staff building-500 roubles; General Staff building, open-dated ticket*-1200 roubles (主博物馆综合体-500卢布；主博物馆建筑群，不定期门票*-1200卢布；总参谋部大楼——500卢布；总参谋部大楼，开票日期*-1200卢布)”可知，如果Joanna想在未来三天内的任何一天参观主博物馆群和总参谋部大楼，她需要购买两张开放式日期票，总共需要2400卢布。故选B项。 5．细节理解题。根据“To find out about other tickets, concessions and the State Hermitage’s social programmes, go to the Visiting Rules section of the website. ( 要了解其他门票，优惠和国家冬宫的社会项目，请访问网站的访问规则部分。)”部分中“Electronic tickets are available on the website only for the next 2-4 weeks, entrance tickets from the ticket offices only for the current day. This measure has been introduced to counter profiteering. Buy your tickets only from official sales points operated by the museum itself! ( 电子票只在接下来的2-4周内在网站上出售，门票只在当天从售票处出售。这一措施是为了打击暴利行为。只能在博物馆的官方销售点购票！)”可知，门票只在当天从售票处出售即售票处只提供当天的入场券。故选C项。 6．细节理解题。根据倒数第二段中“If you appear to have not received letters confirming your order or containing the electronic tickets, please check your e-mail’s “Spam” folder. (如果您似乎没有收到确认您的订单或包含电子门票的信件，请检查您的电子邮件的“垃圾邮件”文件夹。)”可知，如果你没有收到确认信，请在电子邮件的其他文件夹中查找被过滤的信息。故选D项。 C 【来源】上海市华东师范大学第二附属中学2025-2026学年高三上学期期中考试英语试题 The Octopus Organization, inspired by the remarkably adaptive, curious, and intelligent sea dweller. That animal, whose arms can think and act independently yet work in perfect concert, offers a model for building companies that can thrive in complexity and embrace continuous change. Octopus Orgs tap the intelligence of their people, integrating a range of efforts naturally and gracefully. They sense subtle signals, learning and shifting course at speed to navigate uncertainty. A complex world is like the ocean, the home of the octopus — where a small shift in the current can create unpredictable effects miles away. The shifts and unpredictability make it difficult to navigate; you can only sense, respond, and learn from the flow. This is the world the Octopus Org is designed for, an environment where success comes not from rigid control but from distributed intelligence, continuous learning, and adaptation. To get a sense of what this looks like in a business setting, think of how most companies structure strategy meetings. The very design of the typical meeting room — dominated by a large screen for presentations, often with no whiteboard in sight — signals that it is a space for the consumption of information, not the creation of ideas. Speakers adhere to a set agenda, deliver carefully prepared slides, and stick to their assigned time. Questions are reserved for the end and are often perfunctory (草率的, 敷衍的) or performative. The information flow is tightly controlled and consistently structured. In the Octopus Org, by comparison, meetings have clearly defined outcomes but not always a fixed agenda. Leaders encourage people to surface ideas rapidly and ask provocative questions. You’ll often find a diverse group from across the company — frontline workers and executives, new and old voices — gathered around a whiteboard contributors build on and challenge one another’s arguments. Conversation flows, tangents are explored, and unexpected connections emerge. And look at how Tin Man Orgs, where a company’s strategy can be optimized through analysis, specialization, and control, with no inherent uncertainty, treat innovation as a department, creating innovation labs that are physically and culturally isolated. Teams develop ideas in isolation and then hand them off to “the business” for implementation. Octopus Orgs, in contrast, understand that innovation is a distributed capability, the daily, obsessive work of meeting customer needs in ever better ways. They create mechanisms for invention everywhere, entrusting small, decentralized teams with end-to-end ownership of customer problems. This ensures the people closest to the customer are the ones who experiment, learn, and build what’s coming next. Ultimately, all of these Octopus Org behaviors orbit around a single, nonnegotiable question: “Does this create more value for our customers?” The obsessive focus drives employee engagement, which in turn fuels the innovation and resilience needed to thrive. The rewards are cultural, profound, and measurable. 7．The description of the octopus’s arms serves to illustrate ________. A．the distributed yet unified intelligence B．sensing subtle signals amid uncertainty C．the evolution in complex, unpredictable settings D．continuous learning and adaptation to change 8．A retail company wants to become more “Octopus-like”. Which of these changes would be most in line with that goal? A．Stick to clearly defined goal and set time. B．Focus on slides and controlled flow. C．Create a specialized lab for innovation. D．Use whiteboards for diverse collaboration. 9．How does Octopus Orgs differ from Tin Man Orgs in innovation? A．By relying on analysis and control. B．By treating innovation as a department. C．By seeing innovation as everyone’s job. D．By focusing on customer value first. 10．What’s the main idea of the passage? A．Why traditional meeting structures prevent innovation. B．How to succeed in unpredictable business conditions. C．A model for building companies in a complex world. D．A focus on building distributed innovation capabilities 【答案】7．A 8．D 9．C 10．C 【导语】本文是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了Octopus Organization这一企业模式，及其适应复杂多变环境的特点和运作方式。 7．推理判断题。根据第一段中的“That animal, whose arms can think and act independently yet work in perfect concert, offers a model for building companies that can thrive in complexity and embrace continuous change.(这种动物的触手既能独立思考和行动，又能完美协调地工作，为打造能在复杂环境中蓬勃发展并适应持续变革的企业提供了典范)”可知，章鱼触手的特性体现了既能分散独立运作，又能统一协同的特点，这正是为了阐释章鱼组织所具备的分布式且统一的智慧。故选A项。 8．细节理解题。根据第四段中的“You’ll often find a diverse group from across the company — frontline workers and executives, new and old voices — gathered around a whiteboard contributors build on and challenge one another’s arguments.(你经常会看到来自公司各个部门的不同人群 —— 一线员工和高管、新员工和老员工 —— 围在白板旁。参与者会在彼此观点的基础上进一步拓展，并相互质疑)”可知，Octopus Organization的会议鼓励不同群体围绕白板协作交流。零售公司若想变得更像“章鱼式组织”，采用白板促进多元协作的做法最符合目标。故选D项。 9．细节理解题。根据第五段中的“And look at how Tin Man Orgs, where a company’s strategy can be optimized through analysis, specialization, and control, with no inherent uncertainty, treat innovation as a department, creating innovation labs that are physically and culturally isolated. Teams develop ideas in isolation and then hand them off to “the business” for implementation. Octopus Orgs, in contrast, understand that innovation is a distributed capability, the daily, obsessive work of meeting customer needs in ever better ways. They create mechanisms for invention everywhere, entrusting small, decentralized teams with end-to-end ownership of customer problems.(再来看看 “铁皮人组织” 是如何运作的 —— 在这类组织中，企业战略可通过分析、专业化运营及管控实现优化，不存在内在的不确定性，它们将创新视为一个独立部门，还设立了在物理空间和组织文化上均处于孤立状态的创新实验室。团队在封闭环境中研发创意，随后将其移交至“业务部门”落地执行。相比之下，“章鱼式组织”则认为创新是一种分布式能力，是日复一日、全力以赴以更优方式满足客户需求的日常工作。它们在企业各处搭建创新机制，将客户问题的全程处理权交付给小型化、分散化的团队)”可知，章鱼组织与铁皮人组织在创新方面的不同在于，前者将创新视为全员日常工作，而非独立部门的任务。故选C项。 10．主旨大意题。根据第一段中的“The Octopus Organization, inspired by the remarkably adaptive, curious, and intelligent sea dweller. That animal, whose arms can think and act independently yet work in perfect concert, offers a model for building companies that can thrive in complexity and embrace continuous change.(章鱼组织，灵感来自适应能力强，好奇和聪明的海洋生物。这种动物的手臂可以独立思考和行动，但却能完美地协同工作，它为建立能够在复杂性中茁壮成长并接受持续变化的公司提供了一个典范)”以及全文围绕章鱼组织的运作模式、与传统组织的对比等内容展开可知，文章核心是介绍一种适用于复杂世界的企业构建模式。故选C项。 Section B Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need. 【来源】上海市延安中学2024-2025学年高三上学期期中英语试卷 Pedestrian: a word fitted to the most dull, tedious and monotonous moments of life. We don’t want to live pedestrian lives. Yet maybe we should. Many of history’s great thinkers have been pedestrians. Henry David Thoreau and William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Walt Whitman, Friedrich Nietzsche and Virginia Woolf — all were writers who tied the working of their minds to the steady movement of their feet. 11 How many of us today are able to free ourselves from the page and head out the door when we rise from our desks? Even observing the dictates of nature, breathing deeply out in the open air as we set our legs into motion, it’s likely we need to accomplish the undertaking as quickly and efficiently as possible. But in so doing, perhaps we still miss the essence of the activity itself. We abandon the art of walking. ‘Walking with a purpose’ is usually regarded as a positive thing, taken as a sign that people are focused, with eyes on an end-goal or prize. But the art of walking is not about purpose or aim. 12 The art of walking is all about this purposeless purpose. These days, it’s difficult to understand the point of doing something, or doing anything, without an underlying aim. The desperate attempt to get somewhere, and to be on time about it, amounts to a Sisyphean struggle against the clock: when we reach a destination, we must immediately set off again, intent on the next stopping place. The point of the journey is no more than to ‘get there’. And walking is increasingly shaped by technological gadgets worn on wrists or gripped in hands. 13 To live with eyes on the screen is to be attached, stuck in the frame, taking in what is presented to us and re-presented to us again. But representation is not experience. To live life through representations is to live passively, to receive rather than to experience. It is also, we fear, to live the life of a follower. Instead of asking What do I see? How might I tell you? we are told instead how to see, and often what to feel — much of that is determined by algorithm. The art of walking is contrary to ‘screening’ the world we live in, and there is no pre-programmed set of rules or calculations involved. 14 We don’t need to visit a museum in order to be absorbed in artful perception and contemplation. We can just step out the front door, pay attention, and perceive and feel for ourselves. A．This, according to Kant, is the freedom of any form of art. B．Walking with disinterest requires a little effort in the beginning, and it comes with practice. C．In doing so, they were in step with the opposing forces of motion and rest, a force written into the laws of nature. D．As Immanuel Kant maintained, the creation and comprehension of beauty is embodied in ‘a purposiveness without a definite purpose’. E．They walk for a variety of purposes, from practical ones like commuting or walking the dog, to symbolic acts like joining a protest march. F．We spend an increasing amount of time ‘screening’ the world — taking in most of life through a contracted frame that captures objects of immediate interest. 【答案】11．C 12．D 13．F 14．A 【导语】这是一篇议论文。文章开篇指出“平庸”常与枯燥生活关联，但诸多伟大思想家均是步行者，进而批判现代步行的目的导向与科技束缚，强调“步行的艺术”核心是“无明确目的的合目的性”。 11．上文“Henry David Thoreau and William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Walt Whitman, Friedrich Nietzsche and Virginia Woolf — all were writers who tied the working of their minds to the steady movement of their feet.(亨利·戴维·梭罗、威廉·华兹华斯、塞缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治、沃尔特·惠特曼、弗里德里希·尼采和弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫——所有这些作家都将自己的思维活动与双脚的稳步移动联系在一起)”说明多位伟大作家将思维活动与步行绑定，强调步行对思考的重要性。选项C“这样一来，他们便与运动和静止这两种对立力量保持同步，这是一种写入自然法则的力量。”承接上文并解释其深层意义。故选C。 12．上文“But the art of walking is not about purpose or aim.(但步行的艺术与目的或目标无关。)”说明步行的艺术无明确目的性，为阐释本质铺垫。选项D“正如伊曼努尔·康德所主张的，美之创造与体悟，蕴含于‘无明确目的的合目的性’之中。”引用观点定义其本质。故选D。 13．上文“And walking is increasingly shaped by technological gadgets worn on wrists or gripped in hands.(步行正日益受到手腕上佩戴或手中紧握的科技设备的影响。)”说明科技设备对现代步行有影响。选项F“我们花费越来越多的时间‘屏幕化’看待世界——通过一个有限的框架捕捉当下感兴趣的事物，以此接纳生活的大部分内容。”具体解释设备如何改变步行体验。故选F。 14．上文“The art of walking is contrary to ‘screening’ the world we live in, and there is no pre-programmed set of rules or calculations involved.(步行的艺术与“屏幕化”看待我们所处的世界相悖，它不涉及任何预先设定的规则或计算。)”说明步行的艺术具有无预设规则的自由性。选项A“康德认为，这正是任何艺术形式所具备的自由。”引用观点升华其自由属性，呼应前文且逻辑闭环。故选A。 1 / 1 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $