辽宁省调兵山市第二高级中学2025-2026学年高二上学期学业水平模拟英语试卷

Difficulties in learning another language 2026年辽宁省普通高中学生学业水平测试·英语（合格性考试） It seems.then,that difficulties are very common among language learners.However,of the respondents,only 13%said that the difficulties had made,or might make,them give up,since 全真模拟演练（一） there are more benefits of doing a foreign language course than the disadvantages. 1.What does the passage mainly tell us? (本试卷分1、Ⅱ两卷，满分100分，考试时间90分钟) A.The benefits of speaking with foreigners. 第1卷（选择题共60分） B.The difficulties of learning another language. 第一部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分） C.The methods of mastering a foreign language. 第一节（共15小题：每小题2分，满分30分） D.The motivations of taking a foreign language course. 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。 2.Which difficulty was mentioned by the largest number of respondents? A A.Lack of time. B.Lack of money. Many countries have populations who speak more than one language.Some people can even C.Lack of motivation. D.Lack of learning materials. speak four or five languages.sometimes using several languages in the same conversation or even 3.How many respondents felt embarrassed when speaking the new language? in the same sentence.A lot of people around the world are eager to master another language in A.450. B.350. C.250. D.150. some ways.They start their learning motivated (to succeed but then experience many 4.What might learners do when faced with difficulties? difficulties along the way which can affect their eagerness and willingness.A recent study was A.Many learners might give up their learning carried out in Singapore among 3.000 leamers who were taking a foreign langunge course outside B.Only a small number of learners might quit. their normal school to find out what difficulties they had met. C.Most learners might lose confidence in learning. By far the most widely mentioned difficulty was a lock of time,which 24%of respondents D.Few learners might try to get over their difficulties. reported as their main problem-especially (but not only)the adults.16%of those surveyed 5.Who are the most likely to be interested in this passage? stated that an inability to maintain motivation was their main problem.while 15%said that it was A.Bus drivers. B.Electrical engineers. not being able to meet and have a conversation with native speakers. Other problems ineluded financial limits preventing them from continuing their course,which C.Language learners. D.Professional athletes. B 11%of learners put forward as a reason for giving up.Another 11%of them,especially those who were learning less frequently studied languages,stated that they had either no access()or Throughout history,humans have played some kind of kicking game.What the world now limited access to good leaming materials.There are also a small number of respondents feeling calls football,or soccer in the US.began as far back as 2500 BC with the Chinese game of Cuju. embarrassed when speaking the new language.The remaining 18%of learners mentioned various The sport we know today originated in the UK.By the 1840s,England's Football Association other difficulties. established a set of rules,and the modern game was born.Today,more than 120 million players Others all over the globe take part in the game.and this makes football the world's sport. 15 No access to native speakers Financial limits Why is football so popular?Maybe it's the game's special charm,a feeling of friendship or Lack of time24 team spirit.Or maybe it's the game's international quality.In countries like France,England. Inability to maintain motivation Embarrassment when Spain.and Brazil,major teams have players from many different nations,and these clubs now speaking the new langnage No or limited access to good leaming materials have fans across the world. -26 Football is popular for the above reasons.but finally,the main reason for its great attraction 10.What is the best title of the passage? may be this:it's a simple game.It can be played anywhere with anythinga ball,a can,or even A.World's Game. B.World's Match. some bags tied together.And anyone can play it."You don't need professional equipment...to C.Football's Origin. D.Football's History. play football,"says historian Peter Alegi."You just need a flat space and a ball." C It is this unique simplicity that makes football the most popular sport in Africa.Here,even in Imagine you are on a long hike with some friends and you get lost.How do you find your way rural areas far from the bright lights and wonderful fields,children and adults play the game,often home?If you have a smartphone.you can use it to find your way home.It uses information from with handmade balls.All over Africa.football is popular with parents and teachers for another satellites to figure out exactly where you are and show you how to get home. reason:it keeps young people-especially boys-in school and out of trouble."Most clubs in Satellites are now part of our daily lives.There are more than 1,000 satellites orbiting the Tamale,Ghana.don't allow boys to play if they don't go to school,"explains Abubakari.a earth fight now,sending and receiving signals.We use information from these satellites to help us teacher who works with youth clubs in Tamale."We're trying our best to help young people and to find places.predict the weather,and make telephone calls.We can use satellite dishes on our make them responsible in society.Football helps us do this.For us,football is also a tool for houses to watch satellite TV shows from anywhere in the world. hope.” In Malaysia,conservationists use satellites to help endangered turtles,and they want to know 6.How long is the history of football? more about them.The conservationists put satellite tags()on the backs of these turtles.As A.About 180years. the turtles swim from place to place in the ocean.the tags send signals to the satellites.This gives B.About 2,500 years. conservationists important information about where the turtles go.The conservationists can then C.More than 120 years. work to proteet the turtles'living environment. D.More than 4.500 years We also use satellites to help us learn more about our planet's history.Archacologist( 7.Which of the following is a reason for football's popularity? Sarah Pareak uses photos taken by powerful space cameras on satellites to try to find A.It originated in the UK. archaeological sites.She looks at the images very carefully to find signs of underground buildings B.It has a very long history and roads."From space you can see s detailed network of streets and houses,"she explains.She C.It has an international quality. used this method to discover the underground eity of Tanis,in Egypt."Now we have a completely D.It is historian PeterAlegi's favorite. new plan of an ancient city no one has seen for 3.000 years." 8.Why does the author think that football is a simple game? Sarah believes that satellite technology can become even more advanced."It's getting much A.The rules are easy for people to understand. better,much faster...This is the unbelievable future of archaeology." B.People do not need talent to play football well. 11.Which of the following statements about satellites is true? C.Anyone can play football anywhere with anything. A.Satellites help us predict the weather. D.Professional equipment can help people play football well. B.About 100 satellites are travelling around the earth. 9.Which statement may Abubakari agree with? C.Turtles can find their way home with the help of satellites. A.The boys playing football are always in trouble. D.Sarah Pareak uses photos taken by herself to find archaeological sites. B.Football helps increase young people's sense of duty. 12.What does the underlined word "conservationists"in Paragraph 3 probably mean? C.African parents don't allow their children to play football. A.Artists. B.Visitors. D.Handmade balls from Africa are widely used in the world. C.Protectors. D.Programmers. -27 28 13.What is Sarah's attitude to the future of satellite technology? 19.Suddenly,the second child becomes the middle child and may lose a clear sense of A.Positive. B.Negative. where they fit in.They tend not to be the subject of their parents'high expectations-the duty of C.Doubtful. D.Worried. many eldest children-but.equally,they no longer enjoy the extra attention that comes from being 14.What is the author's purpose in writing the passage? the youngest. A.To show the latest progress in archaeology. The youngest child B.To introduce various functions of satellites. With the birth of their final baby,parents will often feel this is their last chance to bring up a C.To explain how satellites help people find their way home. child.This means the youngest child,more often than not.is spoilt (with attention and D.To describe how conservationists proteet endangered turiles. love.20.Always being treated as the "baby"of the family can also result in the youngest 15.Where can this passage possibly be found? child underachieving.But in an effort to break new ground in the battle for their parents' A.In a science fiction. B.In a history book attention,youngest children also tend to be outgoing.attractive and creative. C.In a travel brochure. D.In a science magazine. A.They're also often more outgoing and repeatedly looking for ways to attract attention 第二节（共5小题：每小题2分，满分10分） B.This can lead them to be rather self-centred,believing that the world eireles around them 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填人空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项 C.However.as they grow older they may feel that they had bad relationship with parents Have you ever thought about why you are the way you are?To what extent has your D.Again.problems can come out when another baby arrives personality been determined by social,genetic()and geographical factors:by the period you E.Research has indicated that the position in which we are born in our family plays a major role in were born into,or just by pure luek?It is a very long list.There is,however,one simple yet forming personality interesting factor that is often ignored:birth order.16 F.The difference lies in the fact that they never have to experience the arrival of another child The eldest child G.Suddenly.the attention they're used to receiving becomes weaker For as long as they remain the only child,the eldest enjoys their parents'undivided attention 第二部分语言知识运用（共两节，满分35分） and always tries to meet their high expectations.As a result.eldest children tend to be respectful 第一节（共20小题：每小题1分，满分20分） and traditional.following the examples set by their parents. 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A,B,C和D四个选项中，选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项。 Problems occur with the arrival of another child.17.As a result.the first-born doesn't Phoebe Snetsinger had just returned from a trip to Alaska when her doctors told her that she feel safe and will try to solve this by doing all they can to make their parents happy.Research had cancer()She had less than a year to live,50.21 she heard the news,she decided to suggests that this might lead them to achieve great things,but no matter what they've actually spend the 22 of her life doing what she loved most-watching birds. achieved,they might also feel that they're never good enough. She 23 went off to some of the world's most amazing natural areas.Her trips were The second child extremely hard.24 she carried on travelling,which surprised her doctors and her family.A The second child has no experience of life without a brother or sister,so they never know how year came and went,and she was still alive.She was doing something 25 she loved and this it feels to suddenly have to share the attention.They'll typically look at their well-behaved elder helped her to be healthy for 26 ten years. brother or sister and decide one of two things:they'll either try hard to be betterwhich can Then the cancer 27.Everyone thought she 28,but she chose not.As she continued encourage them to succeed in life-or more commonly,they'll choose to be the complete opposite. her trips,the cancer went away again.By now she was becoming internationally 29 in the If they decide to choose the second approach.then they'll tend to be more unwilling to respect birdwatching world.At the age of 61.when she had seen 7,530 types,she was 30"the rules,with less concern for the way things"should"be done.18. world's leading birdwateher"by the Guinness Book of Records.Four years later.during a trip to 29 30 Mexico.she set a new record when she saw type number 8,000,31 her a legend. Phoebe's interest in birdwatching started in Minnespolis.Then she 32 to Missouri with 第Ⅱ卷（非选择题共40分） her family.There,she 33 a group of people who were interested in birds,insects and plants 第二部分语言知识运用（共两节，满分35分） around the Mississippi River.She became very worried about pollution and its influence 34 the 第二节（共10小题：每小题1.5分，满分15分） environment."We have to protect nature,"she said."35,future generations won't be able to 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单同或括号内单词的正确形式 enjoy watching these beautiful birds." The Book of Songs()is the earliest 41 (collect)of Chinese poetry.It contains 305 36 when Phoebe was 68,she died in a car aceident on the island of Madagasear.She was poems.42 (create)over a period of some 500 years from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to there enjoying the 37 that had probably saved her life.She had been there for two weeks,and the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period,the poems are 43 (origin)in wording. had 38 five more to her list of over 8.400 types.Four years after she died,the American harmonious in rhythm(),and brief in style,which makes The Book of Songs such a pleasant Birding Association published her memoirs(回忆录)，Birding on Borrowed Time,It isn't only a book 44 (read). story about a birdwatcher's travels,39 a touching human document of how her hobby helped 45 is said that in the Zhou Dynasty,there were officials 46 job was to collect poems from the public.There was also a rule 47 (require)officials to write poems and present them her to live 40 than expected. 21.A.As long as to the emperor for final editing.At first,the book was referred to 48 Poems or Three B.As soon as C.As far as D.As well as Hundred Poems.Eventually.after the Han Dynasty.more than 2.000 years ago,it became 22.A.beginning B.end C.rest D.past 49 (official)known as The Book of Songs. 23.A.frequently B.suddenly C.recently D.immediately So far.The Book of Songs 50 (consider)to be the first milestone in the Chinese poetic 24.A.Otherwise B.Besides C.However D.Instead tradition.It has a great impact upon the development of poetry in later times. 25.A.that B.which C.who D.what 第三部分书面表达（满分25分） 26.A.other B.others C.the other D.another 假定你是沈阳红星中学学生李华，你所在的城市即将举办一场国际马拉松赛，现招募英语志愿 27.A.came out B.came up C.came in D.came back 者。请你用英语给负责人王先生写一封申请信。 28.A.have stopped B.will stop C.would stop D.had stopped 内容包括： 29.A.flexible B.famous C.capable D.creative L写信目的： 30.A.offered B.named C.left D.shown 2.自身优势： 31.A.making B.made C.to make D.make 3.你的期望或决心。 32.A.returned B.rushed C.slid D.moved 参考词汇：国际马拉松赛international marathon 33.A.joined B.prevented C.praised D.benefited 注意事项： 34.A.in B.on C.to D.of 1.词数100左右 35.A1fs0 B.If any C.If ever D.If not 2,注意书信格式： 36.A.Unforgettably 3.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯 B.Fortunately C.Sadly D.Obviously 37.A.dream B.desire C.attempt D.hobby 38.A.written B.started C.added D.brought 39.A.and B.but C.or D.so 40.A.longer B.longest C.further D.furthest 32