北京市育才学校2025-2026学年度第二学期3月月考英语试题

北京市育才学校高三英语 2025—2026学年度第二学期 3月月考试卷 2026.03 第一部分：知识运用（共两节，共30分） 第一节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，共15分） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 My wife and I usually don’t keep houseplants. Anything in pots gets either overwatered or underwatered. But after my diagnosis with a brain cancer, I loved the idea of having something green and 1 around us. Last year, my friend Mitch gave me a lucky bamboo plant. Tending to the plant gave me a sense of 2 at a time when I sometimes felt useless because my ability to move was limited. As a physician, I was used to being the one who 3 care. Watering the plant 4 me to a core part of my old identity and taught me I could still be a caregiver. However, after several weeks growing in perfect condition, the plant 5 began to show signs of stress. No matter what I did, the leaves kept 6 and dropping to the floor. “I can’t even care for a simple plant!” I yelled. “If my lucky bamboo dies, I might die too!” Identifying with the green and growing plant had offered me comfort. But when the tree was struggling, I felt increasingly uneasy and 7 . It was several months later when I recovered from surgery that I realized I had wrongly linked my careful nurturing of the plant — something over which I had at least some control — with my own 8 — something over which I had no control. As my 9 lessened, I began to study online tutorials to figure out how to care for the tree. I transplanted it to a larger pot, and when it was back in the sunny window, we both began to thrive (旺盛) again. Now whenever I look at the tree in its new pot, I make a point to relax and think of the things I can 10 . 1. A. alive B. primitive C. delicate D. mature 2. A. warmth B. relief C. achievement D. security 3. A. valued B. needed C. provided D. lacked 4. A. added B. connected C. adapted D. compared 5. A. casually B. interestingly C. genuinely D. mysteriously 6. A. spreading B. browning C. waving D. dancing 7. A. fearful B. innocent C. faithful D. dishonest 8. A. dream B. success C. capability D. survival 9. A. discontent B. anxiety C. doubt D. sympathy 10. A. give B. share C. decide D. preserve 第二节语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，共15分） 阅读下面短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。 A The famous writer James Patterson donated $1.5 million to launch a classroom program, 11 was designed to help poor children read more books. It aims to bring books to 32,000 poor children who are from kindergarten to eighth grade Patterson 12 (donate) more than $10 million to support literacy development since many years ago. He believes reading skills are important for the country. Patterson added, “the program will bring books to those schools and 13 (community) that need them the most, and that we haven’t served before.” The program has chosen a limited number of schools to take part this year but hopes to expand in the coming years. B Over two decades have passed 14 China sent the first Beidou satellite into space in 2000. During that time, more Beidou satellites were sent into orbit, 15 (form) the Beidou Navigation Satellite System (BDS). In late 2012, it 16 (begin) providing positioning, navigation, timing and messaging services to people in China and other parts of the Asia-Pacific region. At the end of 2018, BDS started to serve users worldwide. Now with two more Beidou satellites 17 (launch) on Dec 16, 2019, BDS has 53 satellites in orbit. C The African penguin 18 (expect) to go extinct in the wild in just over a decade, given its current population decline. The main reason is a lack of food caused by disturbance to ocean conditions from global heating and competition from the commercial fishing industry. According to a study, recently scientists have identified a possible 19 (addition) cause, one that is an entirely new threat and that further 20 (prevent) the penguins from finding food: noise pollution from marine ships in a bay. 第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，38分） 第一节（共14小题；每小题2分，共28分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A If you’re interested in pushing yourself academically while experiencing college life, our Summer Programs for Pre-College students (SPP) can be ideal for you. In the programs, you will be able to make friends with fellow students, engage in social activities around the city and on campus, and experience pre-college summer study at one of the world’s top teaching and research universities. Our long-running summer term pre-college offerings include a choice of one-, two-, three-, and six-week programs that prepare you for success in college. With five exciting and challenging pre-college summer programs to choose from, you can earn college credit, discover a new subject area, perform cutting-edge research in university labs, or immerse yourself in hands-on learning. Academic life SPP invites you to join other highly motivated teens from 87 countries in our summer programs for high school students — and take the leap into college life and academics, which enables you to take on new academic challenges, explore a variety of interests and consider possible majors. You can take college courses alongside undergraduates either on campus or online. And you can also earn up to eight college credits by conducting in-depth STEM research with individual instructors or as part of a group project. Or, you can immerse yourself in a variety of stimulating noncredit seminars that blend lectures with experiential learning, discussions, and projects. Campus / Residence life Embracing college life is an exciting experience. Whether you live on campus or commute, you’ll get to know the ins and outs of college and city life. If you live on campus, you will stay in the residence hall, sharing a room and participating in dorm activities. There are typically two students per room and safety is our highest priority: residence halls have live-in university staff and 24-hour security. Resident program assistants provide guidance, coordinate and lead social activities, ranging from group activities that include comedy shows to field trips. Your hard work will be combined with social events and fun activities — and you’ll still have time for your own adventures on campus! Email the SPP office at sppofffce@mail.edu. 21. SPP aims to. A. help college students to achieve academic success B. provide admission guidelines for pre-college students C. get high school students well-prepared for college life D. encourage students to participate in hands-on learning 22. What are students supposed to do to earn the required credits? A. Carry out STEM research. B. Attend various seminars. C. Finish the courses online. D. Join in experiential learning. 23. According to the passage, students living on campus. A. can organize social activities B. will have access to a single room C. are provided with good security D. are advised to direct comedy shows B Brian Schwartz became one of the many to turn jobless under the epidemic. For Brian, the timing could not have been worse. It was a stressful time between a wife carrying a baby, a dad battling brain cancer, and everything else going on in the news. Brian needed to do something productive and he turned to mow lawns for stress relief. “I just decided to create my own good news, really just as a time filler,” says Brian. He wanted to help neighbors, just keeping himself busy mentally and physically. Brian offered his lawnmowing service free to seniors and people with disabilities in his community. As word spread of his good acts, the local media began picking up on the story. The attention got Brian thinking. There was clearly a broader need for what he was offering. So he decided to launch a website, loanttomowyourlawn.com, and a kindness movement was born. Pretty soon, Brian had a large crowd of clients needing others to mow their lawns and an army of volunteers, from 18-year-olds in college to recent retirees. As news of his organization spread, he also began to attract donations to help with operating costs, which encouraged him to turn the service into a nonprofit. As the organization has evolved (演变), Brian has expanded his offerings to include other services like removing trees and clearing snow. But he believes the benefit of what his team does goes way beyond the practical. “We are not only providing them with financial relief,” he says. “It’s mental and physical relief as well. And we’re hearing feedback not only directly from the people we’re helping, but also from their neighbors who thank us for helping make the community better. And I’m even receiving occasional letters from people that we might not even help, but they might have just been at the time looking for some uplifting news.” lwanttomouwyourlawn.com has become a passion. Not least of all for the benefits the kindness brings. “It stimulates my mind, my body and my soul just by helping others,” he says. “It’s a really good feeling. I feel like I’m doing something that has some meaning and purpose.” 24. What got Brian into a bad situation? A. Taking care of a baby. B. Being out of work. C. Fighting against cancer. D. Being reported in news. 25. Why did Brian create the website? A. To gain more public attention. B. To provide a wider range of services. C. To raise donations for people in need. D. To collect news of kindness movements. 26. What can we learn about Brian’s organization? A. It puts forward plans on bettering the community. B. It requires people to give feedback on the offerings. C. It gives people spiritual support as well as direct help. D. It reduces the unemployment among people in need. 27. What can we conclude from this passage? A. Good things take time. B. Every moment matters. C. Fame brings opportunities. D. We rise by lifting others. C In the United Arab Emirates (UAE), water is more valuable than oil. To support its citizens, the nation relies on expensive campaigns of cloud seeding from aircraft, which spray particles (喷洒微粒) into passing clouds to make rainfall. But according to Oliver Branch, a climate scientist, there may be another method to stir up a rainmaker: with city-size solar farms that create their own weather. The heat from dark solar panels can cause updrafts that sometimes lead to rainstorms, providing water for local people. “Maybe it’s not science fiction that we can produce this effect,” says Branch, who led the work. Few studies have examined how renewable energy might shift weather patterns. In 2020, Branch found that incredibly large solar farms, taking up more than 1 million square kilometers in the Sahara desert, could boost local rainfall. But the reward would come with a cost, the researchers found: By altering wind patterns, the solar farms would push tropical rain bands north. That’s not good news for the Amazon areas. To find more, researchers turned to a weather model that can account for land surface changes. They modeled the solar farms as nearly black fields that absorbed 95% of the sunlight, surrounded by relatively reflective sand. When the solar farms reached 15 square kilometers, they found, the increased heat they absorbed appreciably increased the updrafts, or convection (对流), that drive cloud formation. Hacking convection wasn’t enough, however: damp air was also needed. When conditions were ripe, the model also found, a 20-square-kilometer solar field would increase a storm’s total rainfall by nearly 600,000 cubic meters. If such rainstorms occurred 10 times in one summer, they would provide enough water to support more than 30,000 people for a year. Solar farms in China and elsewhere are nearly big enough, Branch says. If they were built in the right spots, it wouldn’t take much to darken the panels and to plant dark crops between panel rows. Still they’re trying to improve the realism of their solar panel simulations by cross-checking them with field measurements at existing solar farms. The UAE “is committed to studying the potentially dynamic strategies, such as optimizing convection,” says Alya Al, director of the UAE’s Research Program. For now, she adds, the UAE is deeply committed to its cloud seeding program, carrying out some 300 missions each year. 28. In his study, Branch attempts to produce rainfall ______. A. by spraying particles into passing clouds B. by way of updrafts formed on solar farms C. by means of relatively reflective sand D. by planting dark crops 29. The model is designed to find out ______. A. the realistic size of a solar farm for rainfall increase B. the ripe conditions for building a solar farm C. the annual amount of water consumption in the UAE D the heat absorption rate of the solar panels in the black fields 30. What can we learn about Branch’s method? A. It is not supported by the director. B. It needs great investment if applied. C. It remains to be further tested in practice. D. It has promoted cloud seeding in the UAE. D A shopkeeper’s son breaks a window, causing a crowd to gather. They tell the shopkeeper not to be angry: actually, the broken window is a reason to celebrate, since it will create work for the glazier (装玻璃的工人). In the story, written by a 19th-century economist, the crowd envisions the work involved in repairing the window, but not that involved in everything else on which the shopkeeper could have spent his money — unseen possibilities that would have brought him greater happiness. If that window were to be broken these days, people might have a different reaction, especially if they were NIMBYs (Not In My Back Yard) who oppose any local construction that affects their quality of life. Their concern might be with the “embodied carbon”. The production of a piece of glass would carry a sizeable carbon cost. Similarly, the bricks and concrete in a building are relics of past emissions. They are, the logic goes, embodied carbon. Conserving what already exists, rather than adding to the building stock, will avoid increasing these embodied emissions — or so NIMBYs often suggest. At its worst, this idea is based on a warped ogic. Greenhouse gases released by the construction of an existing building will heat the planet whether the building is repaired or knocked down. The emissions have been taken out of the world’s “carbon budget”, so treating them as a new debit means double counting. The right question to ask is whether it is worth using the remaining carbon budget to repair a building or it is better to knock it down. Choosing between these possibilities requires thinking about the unseen. It used to be said that construction emitted two types of emissions. Besides the embodied sort, there were operational ones from cooling, heating and providing electricity to residents. Around the world, buildings account for 39% of annual emissions, according to the World Green Building Council, of which 28% come from operational carbon. These two types of emissions might be enough for the architects designing an individual building. But when it comes to broader questions, economists ought also to consider how the placement of buildings affects the manner in which people work, shop and travel. Density (密度) lowers the per-person cost of public transport, and this reduces car use. Research by Green Alliance, a pressure group, suggests that in Britain a policy of “demolish (拆除) and densify” — replacing semi-detached housing near public transport with blocks of flats — would save substantial emissions. Without such demolition, potential residents would typically have to move to the suburbs instead, saving money on rent but consuming more energy. Targeted subsidies (补贴), especially for research and development into construction materials, could speed up the pace at which the built environment decarbonises. What will never work, however, is allowing the loudest voices to decide how to use land and ignoring the carbon emissions of their would-be neighbours once they are out of sight. 31. The first two paragraphs are written to ______. A. exemplify an outlook on energy conservation B. present a new way of relieving energy crisis C. explain people’s reaction to a broken window D. introduce an argument on carbon emission 32. What does the underlined word “warped” in Paragraph 3 probably mean? A. Complicated. B. Unsound. C. Distinctive. D. Underlying. 33. What can be learnt from the passage? A. Operational carbon accounts for a larger share of carbon emission. B. Repairing old buildings outweighs demolition in energy conservation. C. Higher residential density near public transport may help reduce emission. D. Stopping residents from living in new buildings is sensible to energy saving 34. As for decarbonization of the built environment, which would the author agree with? A. A comprehensive insight into emission is essential. B. Interests of NIMBYs are worthy of consideration. C. Upgrading construction materials should be prioritized. D. Every resident should do their bit in reducing carbon emission. 第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，共10分） 根据短文内容，从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。 At the end of the day, most of us find ourselves on the couch, eyes glued to the television or to our smartphones, doing everything we can to conserve energy. 35 But are we hardwired (本能的) for it? According to Michael Inzlicht, a social psychologist at the University of Toronto, we’re lazy and also, we’re not. All humans, given equal options, will take the easy way out. Does it mean we’re lazy? Maybe. 36 We always minimize our effort and, at the same time, maximize the amount of reward we get for that effort. A study published in the journal Neuropsychologia found that our brains may be hardwired for laziness. Even though we know the benefits of exercise, we stay glued to the couch. 37 We can’t know for sure whether there is an evolutionary (进化的) purpose to it. But that would make sense. After all, before we were able to go to the grocery store, calories were much more directly linked to effort. Every calorie we burned meant more hunting, fishing, or gathering. But there are the times when humans are the opposite of lazy and do very difficult things for no apparent reason. Some rewards only come from extensive effort. 38 Running this far might even cause more harm than good in terms of running injuries like stress fractures, back pain and so on. But we do it anyway because putting in the effort makes us feel good, says Inzlicht. 39 So, in that sense, effort is worth the effort. While humans are economically aware of effort most of the time, “in some cases, the effort itself is rewarding,” says Inzlicht. A. Think about things like running a marathon. B. It’s not completely clear why humans behave this way. C. We similarly love to space out, our brain tired of focusing. D. It seems that we humans are gifted in the way of laziness. E. Likewise, we might get a sense of pleasure or mastery from doing a crossword puzzle. F. Some people who appear to be lazy are suffering from much more serious problems. G. But it certainly means that we’re economic with our effort. 第三部分 书面表达（共两节，32分） 第一节（共4小题；第40、41题各2分，第42题3分，第43题5分，共12分） 阅读下面短文，根据题目要求用英文回答问题。请在答题卡指定区域作答。 Family values are a set of principles and beliefs that a family agrees upon, such as emphasizing the importance of honest behaviors or valuing effort and persistence in achieving goals. They are fundamental and determine how members of a home interact with each other and with the world. Family values determine what you think is important and what is good. These values can help you stay consistent when making decisions in everyday life, especially in moments of uncertainty. This is particularly true when you’re going to make quick decisions based on an emotional reaction. For example, if honesty and communication are your important family values, you’re more likely to approach conflicts with an open mind and a willing heart to talk through issues. When finding your family member has lied to you, instead of acting thoughtlessly, you know what to do — have a talk sincerely. Family values serve as a guiding force within the home, but their impact extends far beyond, shaping societal norms and behaviors. For example, if several families plant generosity in their values, the next generation will grow up to be more generous. As a result, adults in this generation are more likely to take other people’s needs into consideration when making difficult choices. They become positive contributors to the society, developing an atmosphere of care and consideration that enhances communal well-being. Great influence as it has, family values are not taught consciously. Often, they get passed down without being noticed. Those values don’t ever get questioned. Whether you’ve outlined them or not, they’re present. And once you take ownership of those values, you can shape them to be in line with what you expect your family to be. 40. What are family values? ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 41. How can family values help to make decisions in everyday life? ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 42. Please decide which part is false in the following statement, then underline it and explain why. ▶Family values have great influence within the home, but they have nothing to do with shaping common behaviors and rules in a society. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 43.Please share one of your family values and explain how it influences you. (In about 40 words) ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 第二节（20分） 44．假设你是红星中学的学生李华。你校交换生Jim对中国的非物质文化遗产非常感兴趣，这个周末在国家博物馆将举办一场非遗文化展。请你给Jim写一封电子邮件，邀请他一同前往。邮件内容包括： 1．介绍活动； 2．发出邀请。 注意：1．词数100左右，开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数； 2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。 提示词：国家博物馆 National Museum of China 非物质文化遗产展览 intangible cultural heritage exhibition Dear Jim, ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Yours, Li Hua 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $