江苏无锡市锡山区锡东高级中学2025-2026学年度第二学期期中考试高一英语试卷

2025-2026学年度第二学期期中考试 高一英语试卷 考试时间：120分钟 分值：150分 第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分） 第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分） 听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话读两遍。 1. Who is Teresa waiting for? A. The coach. B Her aunt. C. The man’s brother. 2. When will the man meet Dr. Jones? A. At 3:30 p.m. B. At 3 p.m. C. At 11 a.m. 3. What will the speakers do after watching a movie? A. Have dinner. B. Type the reports. C. Help Tony with his work. 4. Where are the speakers? A. In the man’s home. B. At a bus stop. C. On a bus. 5. What does the man mean? A. The phone isn’t amazing. B The woman shouldn’t buy it. C The features aren’t satisfactory. 第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分） 听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。 听第 6 段材料，回答第 6、7 题。 6. What are the speakers mainly talking about? A. The weekend plan. B. Japanese food. C. A city tour. 7. Where will the speakers meet on Saturday night? A. At a concert hall. B. At Rebecca’s house. C. At a Japanese restaurant. 听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。 8. How does the woman sound? A. Impatient. B. Grateful. C. Sorry. 9. What do we know about the camp? A. It is next to a bus stop. B. It is far from the city. C. It has a very big store. 听第8段材料，回答第10至13题。 10. What does Mr. Clarkson have a degree in? A. Chemistry. B. Fashion design. C. Marketing. 11. Why does Mr. Clarkson want to leave his present job? A. He is tired of it. B. He prefers a small company. C. He wants to do more challenging work. 12. What position does Mr. Clarkson apply for? A. The leading designer. B. The marketing director. C. The French teacher. 13. What does the woman think of Mr. Clarkson at first? A. Responsible. B. Impressive. C. Inexperienced. 听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。 14. Why did Tim do the project? A. To help the environment. B. To get his family interested in it. C. To find more information for his lessons. 15. How does Tim go to school now? A. By bike. B. By car. C. By bus. 16. What advice does Tim give to his teachers? A. Reuse the school paper. B. Check homework online. C. Make students use both sides of paper. 17. What should the school restaurant do first? A. Use local products. B. Have meatless Mondays. C. Reduce bottled drinks. 听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。 18. What is the purpose of the summer job for students? A. To enrich their summer life. B. To prepare for their university major. C. To get an idea of what they are learning. 19. Who offered the speaker the job? A. His father. B. His teacher. C. His father’s friend. 20. What does the speaker say about the job at the studio? A. It’s difficult. B. It’s highly paid. C. It’s surprising. 第二部分 阅读（共两节，满分50分） 第一节（共15小题；每题2.5分，满分37.5分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A Suno stands out by offering full songs custom-tailored to our choices, making music creation simple and fun for everyone. It’s a glimpse into the future of music, where AI and humans together bring new sounds to life. Here’s how it works: Entering Prompt (提示词) *Just type in the description for your song. You can mention the style, feel, instruments, speed and what the song is about. The main thing to remember is that you can’t ask Suno to create something in the style of a particular artist. AI Composition *Based on your description, Suno’s AI comes up with a song that has everything: melody, chords, beats, instruments, and even singing. Downloading and Sharing *You can download the songs as MP3s, which means you can listen to them anywhere or share them with friends. *You get a maximum of 50 credits per day, which is enough for ten songs with a free account but you can’t use the songs commercially. Paid Subscriptions (订阅) *The Pro plan is $8 a month for 500 songs a day. *The Premier plan is $24 a month for 2,000 songs a day. *You can use the songs on YouTube or even upload them to Spotify or Apple Music. Copyright and Ownership You own the songs produced using Suno, as long as you’re its Pro or Premier users. If you’re a free user, Suno says it continues to have ownership of the songs. But this is different from copyright ownership. As Suno’s FAQ section says: “the availability and scope of copyright protection for content generated using artificial intelligence is a complex and dynamic area of law, which is rapidly developing and varies among countries”. 21. What do we know about Suno according to the passage? A. It is a music sharing platform. B. It is a music editing application. C. It is a music learning website. D. It is an AI music producer. 22. Which of the following is a proper prompt? A. “A Pipa song of Fang Jinlong in nostalgic style about Jiangnan.” B. “The scores (总谱) of Dune by Hanz Zimmer with bagpipe in heroic style.” C. “A happy pop song about a vacation with fast piano music and singing.” D. “Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony with a touch of Chinese music.” 23. What can you do after you create a Suno account? A. Upload the songs to Apple Music free of charge. B. Enjoy free music making with no limit on time. C. Have the copyright and sell the songs online. D. Download the songs and share on WeChat. B Edward O. Wilson, known as “the ant man”, was born on June 10, 1929, in Birmingham, Alabama. His parents divorced when he was young, and he moved frequently throughout his childhood. Wilson grew up exploring the forests and wildlife. One of these adventures left him partly blind, but they also set off his lifelong fascination (着迷) with ants and their social structures. Wilson earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Alabama. In 1955, he received his PhD from Harvard and worked there until retirement. Wilson’s early study of ants led to his first major discovery in 1959: How ants communicate through the release of chemical signals. Later, in 1990, Wilson and German biologist Bent Holldobler published their Pulitzer-winning The Ants. It detailed the insects’ social structure that was both valued by entomologists (昆虫学者) and accessible to general readers. Another of Wilson’s major works started in the early 1960s when he teamed up with Robert MacArthur. The pair published The Theory of Island Biogeography, where they sought to explain why different places have different numbers of species. What many consider to be Wilson’s most important contributions to evolutionary biology came in 1975 when he published Sociobiology: The New Synthesis. The work explored the genetic and evolutionary roots of animal behaviour and argued that genes shaped human behaviour. Wilson faced accusations (谴责) for these ideas but finally his work largely proved true. In 1978, his ideas on the role biology plays in human culture ended in On Human Nature, which won him a Pulitzer in 1979. Wilson published more than 400 scientific papers and 20 books. He received more than 150 awards and honours from around the world. These accomplishments offered him a type of academic superstar status, but friends and colleagues said the polite Southerner remained down to earth. “One of the qualities I really admired about Professor Wilson was his ability to really listen to and engage with whomever he was interacting with, ” said Corrie S. Moreau, who was one of Wilson’s final advisees. 24. What contributed to Wilson’s passion for ants? A. His accidental disability. B. His boyhood spent in nature. C. The school education he received. D. The discovery he made about ants. 25. What is the book On Human Nature about? A. The links between biology and human culture. B. The distribution of different species. C. The social structure of ants. D. The role of chemical signals in communication. 26. According to the last paragraph, which word can best describe Wilson? A. Warm-hearted. B. Honest. C. Independent. D. Productive. 27. What is the main purpose of the passage? A. To promote Wilson’s most popular books. B. To explain the social behavior of ants in detail. C. To highlight the challenges Wilson faced in his personal life. D. To introduce the life and key achievements of Wilson. C In one of the more unusual experiments we’ve seen recently, researchers attached a large pair of cartoonish huge eyes to the front of a small, self-driving vehicle — and it turns out that this kind of adaptation could actually improve pedestrian (行人) safety. A pair of eyes on the front of driverless vehicles could, according to the researchers, give people standing by the road a better idea of whether they’ve been seen. That’s one useful bit of information to have when it comes to determining the perfect moment to cross in front of oncoming traffic. “If the car is not looking at the pedestrian, this implies that the car does not recognize the pedestrian,” said one of the researchers. “Thus, pedestrians can judge that they should not cross the street, thereby avoiding potential traffic accidents.” For the purposes of this study, the researchers used a car which seemed as if no one was inside. A pair of large, swiveling (旋转的) eyes on the front were controlled by researchers, but in the future could be controlled by the car’s AI on an actual self-driving vehicle. To keep the 18 participants safe, experiments were conducted in virtual reality. The volunteers — nine men and nine women — were asked to decide whether or not to cross the road as the car approached. Four scenarios (方案) were tested in total; two when the car was fitted with eyes, and two when it wasn’t. The researchers measured how often people hesitated to cross when it was in fact safe to do so, and how often they chose to cross when it was dangerous. Overall, the presence of the eyes led to safer and smoother crossing experiences for the participants. However, there was a gender split in the results. For men, the eyes only really helped in dangerous situations, warning them to pause when they might otherwise proceed. For women, the eyes boosted confidence by signaling it was safe to cross. 28. What is the function of cartoonish huge eyes? A. Improving the safety of self-driving vehicles. B. Keeping pedestrians in a complete safe state. C. Helping people decide when to cross the road. D. Promoting the appearance of self-driving vehicles. 29. What can we know about the experiments? A. Experiments weren’t conducted in real surroundings. B. The pair of large eyes were controlled by AI. C. The experiments were designed by 18 volunteers. D. There was a robot in the car. 30. What does Paragraph 4 mainly talk about? A. How researchers did the experiments. B. Who conducted these experiments. C. What conclusions researchers drew. D. What scenarios were tested in experiments. 31. Why does the author write the text? A. To advertise a new self-driving technology. B. To enhance pedestrians’ awareness of safety. C. To inform us of a new research on driverless vehicles. D. To introduce the influence of a new type of car. D As the world’s oldest living organisms, trees have been our silent companions. Although they inspire a large quantity of fancy tales, the richness of what they say is beyond description. The German forester Peter Wohlleben spent decades working and learning their secrets. Feelings are rarely applied to trees, but Wohlleben has done so without hesitation. According to Wohlleben, that humans do not speak the trees’ language does not mean they do not communicate. Trees are badly misunderstood even if they communicate with chemical and electrical signals. Wohlleben claims that trees are creatures as human beings. In one of 50 cases, Wohlleben’s team sees the special friendships between trees, as they can distinguish between one individual and another. This means that trees do not treat all other trees the same. For instance, Wohlleben saw two old beeches standing next to each other. Compared to the usual case, each one growing its branches turned away from the other rather than toward each other. This kind of partnership is well-known to foresters. They know that such tree pairs are really like a human couple. If they chop one down, they need to chop down both because the other will die anyway. Trees were also found to keep each other alive in different ways. They pass food to nearby sick trees and send signals to warn others of dangerous insects. In one of his investigations, Wohlleben also discovered a beech tree cut about 400 to 500 years ago. The trunk is still alive and was found with green chlorophyll (叶绿素) under the thick bark. Since it has no leaves to create sugar, the only explanation is that neighbouring trees have supported this tree for more than centuries. The trees that suffered through drought were found to consume less water in the spring so that they will have more water available in the summer months. This implies that a tree can learn and remember a drought its whole life, acting on that memory by being more cautious about its water consumption. 32. What is the function of the first paragraph? A. To arouse readers’ interest. B. To demonstrate a heated debate. C. To present a new discovery. D. To introduce a topic. 33. According to Wohlleben’s research, what can we learn about trees? A. Trees communicate in the same way as humans. B. Trees are loyal to their partners. C. Trees can’t tell friends and enemies apart. D. Trees can keep each other alive within limited periods. 34. Why do some trees consume less water in the spring? A. Because they have more water available in summer B. Because they have suffered through drought before. C. Because they don’t need so much water in the spring. D. Because they can depend on the support from other trees. 35. Which of the following can be the best title for the text? A. Trees can adapt to the environment B. Trees are our silent companions C. Mysteries of trees are uncovered D. Trees can form special relationships 第二节 七选五（共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分） 阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 We all do procrastination (拖延). No matter how well-organized you are, chances are that you have found yourself wasting hours on small pursuits when you should have been spending that time on school-related projects.    36    However, do they really work? The common recommendations for procrastination can focus on making lists, downloading apps, setting timers, etc. If simply making a list could solve the problem of procrastination, then there wouldn’t be so many articles on it or conversations about it with doctors.    37    When we look at a task, such as doing homework or preparing a presentation, we do an internal assessment.    38    If not, our brain center responds by telling our body to avoid the situation causing us anxiety. In this way, procrastination will provide us with a circle — stressful task, perceived threat, but once the task is finished, you will feel better. This is a short-term solution in fact. Then, ultimately we want to finish a work and feel good, what can we do?    39    That’s because we live in a busy world where tasks will roll your way. Be aware that you are procrastinating and don’t pile up the act of procrastination with the act of self-deception (欺骗). Know yourself and your moods. Scheduling tasks during times of high energy will help us be most productive and lessen the opportunity for procrastination.    40    If you are motivated by funny stickers on your papers, then you should pair the rewarding activity with the task you have been procrastinating. A. What’s more, reward yourself after the task. B. Learn from negative thoughts. C. It means a mismanagement of your emotions. D. If the task is easy to handle, we can do it as soon as possible. E. Fortunately, you will find many ways to deal with procrastination online. F. Procrastination frequently happens in daily life. G. Therefore, we need to figure out its internal roots. 第三部分 语言知识运用（满分55分） 第一节 完形填空（共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分） British brothers James and Thomas Lindesay have spent months traveling across the Great Wall of China on foot. They    41    9,263 kilometres, a remarkable achievement at any time. Their    42    to complete this adventure came from their father, William Lindesay, who    43    along the Wall decades ago and attracted a great deal of media attention. Born in 1956 in Liverpool, William became    44    about the Wall later in his life. In 1987, he made the    45    in China by hiking the Wall. He has committed over 30 years to the protection of the structure, and has    46    10 books on the Wall based on his knowledge and experiences. His action and books influenced his two sons, who now share his    47    in the Wall. In 2016, the Lindesay brothers flew drones (无人机) at many    48    along the Wall and edited video works on the    49    of the Wall, hoping to keep it safe from damage. Not    50    with merely documenting parts of the Wall, the young brothers    51    wanted to find a new way to experience the structure and finally they    52    hiking its length, following in their father’s footsteps. The brothers’ trip was    53    than they had imagined. They met many difficulties. But    54    the great wonder was life-changing, which gave them a better    55    of the structure and the history behind it. 41. A. challenged B. covered C. measured D. expanded 42. A. agreement B. tendency C. desire D. ability 43. A. jogged B. journeyed C. continued D. signalled 44. A. anxious B. enthusiastic C. serious D. particular 45. A. difference B. changes C. headlines D. connection 46. A. purchased B. recommended C. reviewed D. authored 47. A. pride B. interest C. success D. faith 48. A. buildings B. stages C. villages D. sections 49. A. protection B. length C. foundation D. origin 50. A. familiar B. busy C. satisfied D. careful 51. A. gradually B. badly C. occasionally D. blindly 52. A. decided on B. carried on C. learned of D. dreamed of 53. A. tougher B. funner C. greater D. shorter 54. A. exploring B. evaluating C. repairing D. monitoring 55. A. memory B. assessment C. understanding D. impression 第二节 短文语法填空（共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分） 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。 Confucius Temple, one of the most visited attractions in Nanjing,    56    (locate) at the heart of the city’s historic district. While most first-time visitors are confused by the hundreds of stores that offer    57    (variety) types of snacks and local foods, Confucius Temple is a major part of the city’s rich historic and cultural heritage.    58    presents an incredible mixture of culture and trade, past and present. You will be    59    (true) happy with the local foods and unique cultural relics if you join an exploration to Confucius Temple The original purpose of the Confucius Temple is, of course,    60    (honor) Confucius. He is often referred to    61    the greatest educator, and the direct source of all knowledge and truth. The Confucius Temple in Nanjing has    62    history of over six hundred years, and reached its summit in the Ming dynasty,    63    Nanjing was the political and cultural capital of China. Many scholars came to offer tribute in order to seek blessings for their academic or political career. Now fully    64    (protect), the temple is also a very popular attraction, attracting tourists from all over the world interested in seeing China’s cultural heritage. With historic paintings and carvings    65    (record) Confucius’ wisdom and teachings, the temple offers an insight into the origin of Chinese culture and national spirits. 第三节 用所给词的适当形式填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分） 66. Green tech involves ________ (combine) technology and science to create environmentally friendly products. 67. The company attaches great importance to interviewing ________ (apply) carefully. 68. Studies have shown that physical activity can stimulate creativity, ________ (sharp) judgement skills and improve mental energy. 69. Most of us were surprised at his ________ (survive) in that terrible traffic accident. 70. An astronaut is a person who travels to space to carry out ________ (science) research. 71. The Internet ________ (addict) is doing a lot of harm to the growth of teenagers. 72. They also make TV ________ (access) to people who live far away from cities. 73. Four police officers had serious ________ (injure) in the explosion. 74. This worked well for everyone, so it became a somewhat frequent ________ (occur). 75. According to ________ (office) data, the disease killed over 500 people. 第四节 根据要求翻译句子（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分） 76．如果你能帮助我，我将不胜感激。（appreciate， it 作形式宾语） _________________________________________________________________________________ 77．他陷入沉思，没注意到我进入了教室。（用非谓语作状语） _________________________________________________________________________________ 78．由于人类活动,许多动物有灭绝的危险。（in danger of） _________________________________________________________________________________ 79．只有当我们采取有效措施，我们才能保护环境不被污染。（倒装句） _________________________________________________________________________________ 80．让我宽慰的是，我的努力最终有了回报。（relief） _________________________________________________________________________________ 第五节 动词填空（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分） 81. Weather _______ (permit), we will hold the opening ceremony of the sports meet tomorrow. 82. He hurried to the station, only _______ (inform) that the bus had left. 83. If _______ (catch) cheating in the exam, you will be punished severely. 84. _______ (admit) to a key university requires hard work and good grades. 85. Overusing natural resources without limit may lead to the balance of nature _______ (roy). 第四部分 书面表达（15分） 某中学生英文报近日开启专栏，就一些校园热点话题展开讨论。请你以“外卖食品是否应该进校园”为题，用英文给该报社写一篇稿件，内容应包括： 1．外卖食品受欢迎的原因； 2．外卖食品带来的问题，如乱扔外卖包装和食品安全等； 3．你自己的观点。 注意： 1．写作词数应为100左右； 2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。 Should We Order Takeaway Food at School? In recent years, takeaway food is very popular in China. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $