北京市西城区北京师范大学附属中学2025-2026学年（下）高二期中考试英语试卷

北京师大附中2025—2026学年（下）高二期中考试 英语试卷 班级：__________ 姓名：__________ 学号：__________ 考生须知 1．本试卷有七道大题，共13页。考试时长100分钟，满分110分。 2．考生务必将答案填写在机读卡和答题纸上，在试卷上作答无效。 3．考试结束后，考生应将机读卡和答题纸交回。 第Ⅰ卷 一、完形填空（本大题共10小题，共10分） One of the best feelings is knowing that I have made a(n) 1 impact on another person’s life. During my freshman year, I got my first real job at Dunkin’ Donuts. I quickly became aware that customers’ 2 was important, so I tried to provide the best service that I could. I still remember one customer vividly, an elderly gentleman named Frank. He came in every Sunday afternoon and ordered a medium coffee with two old-fashioned donuts. Immediately after I saw him pull into the parking lot, I 3 his order, having it ready by the time he walked in. If I had no other work to do, I sat and talked with him. We learned a lot about each other. I could not help feeling sorry for him because his wife had recently passed away. After a year of working every weekend, I eventually decided to leave and turned in my two-week notice. The most difficult part of 4 was not telling my boss, but informing Frank. I felt like I was 5 him. When I finally brought it up, he 6 replied, “Oh, that’s too bad. I’m sure that the staff will miss you.” I began to think that our visits held no real importance to him, and that he would be just as 7 enjoying his food alone. 8 , on my last day, Frank came in with a card that simply read, “Your kindness during the time we have spent together is heartwarming. You had no 9 to speak a word to me, let alone show a real interest in our conversations. Few things have brought me more pleasure than our weekly visits. Thank you.” The amount of 10 I received for such minor efforts is mind-blowing. Giving up my weekends for a year was a small price to pay to grasp the remarkable effects of kindness. 1. A. obvious B. simple C. immediate D. positive 2. A. condition B. appearance C. satisfaction D. behavior 3. A. took B. prepared C. followed D. accepted 4. A. quitting B. agreeing C. remembering D. serving 5. A. embarrassing B. ignoring C. cheating D. abandoning 6. A. firmly B. calmly C. angrily D. sadly 7. A. confident B. excited C. content D. interested 8. A. Meanwhile B. Therefore C. Moreover D. However 9. A. duty B. right C. excuse D. intention 10. A. admiration B. expectation C. appreciation D. instruction 二、阅读理解（本大题共19小题，共28.5分） 第一节 A Nia’s family moved often, finding shelter in rooms with relatives. Tensions rose with every move and shouting matches were constant. When everything came to a boil, Nia found it best to keep silent. She became more and more withdrawn as she got older, losing confidence in herself and her voice. When she was a young adult, Nia had developed a fear of speaking. So when a friend told her about Youth Care’s Tile Project, she was terrified. But Nia wanted to take steps to find a job and support herself. She finally took a deep breath and decided to give it a shot. Nia signed up for a ceramic (陶瓷) class. The passion she gained for learning a new craft was clear — but when it came to group activities in the classroom, Nia struggled. She told staff that she didn’t like being around people she didn’t know. So when the class was given the opportunity to sell their artwork at a local fair, Nia hesitated. With the support from Youth Care Career Coordinator, Kate, she cautiously agreed. When the big day came, shoppers poured into the fair, approaching Nia with questions about the program and art pieces for sale. Each time, Nia turned to Kate to whisper the answers in her ear, and Kate repeated the answers out loud. At one point during the fair, she was left alone for a moment. When a customer came up to ask a question, Nia answered with hesitation. Soon after, another visitor came. When Kate returned to her side, Nia fought back her fears and answered their questions on her own. Nia’s confidence grew with every interaction. By the end of the day, she was beaming. “I was so impressed by Nia. She really loved explaining to customers how to fire ceramic,” said Kate. “The artwork she sold was the biggest sale of the day!” That day at the fair was life-changing for Nia. She discovered that she truly enjoyed talking to others — especially about art! With continued support from staff to build communication skills and confidence, Nia completed the Tile Project with flying colors. 11. What made Nia finally decide to try the Project? A. Her family atmosphere. B. Her friend’s persuasion. C. Her desire to find a job. D. Her passion for ceramics. 12. The fair is life-changing for Nia because she ______. A. discovered her true love in art B. made the biggest sale in the fair C. won the recognition of customers’ D. gained confidence through interaction 13. What can we know about Nia? A. She was forced to the fair. B. She did very well throughout the fair. C. 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D To introduce cooking courses. C Even people who tend to think conventionally, such as accountants, can be creative, a recent study suggests, if they can look at emotional situations in a different light. In a set of experiments, researchers found that conventional thinkers came up with more creative ideas than peers after they practised “emotional reappraisal”. This means viewing a situation through another emotional lens, such as trying to see an anger-inducing event as one that is neutral or hopeful. The study indicates that creativity is something that can be trained. “Whenever we break away from our existing perspective and try to think about something that’s different from our initial reaction, there’s a creative element to it. If we can practise or train that flexible-thinking muscle, it may help us be more creative over time,” said lead author Lily Zhu, an assistant professor at Washington State University. For the study, Zhu and her colleagues conducted two similar experiments. In the first experiment with 335 people recruited through a crowdsourcing platform, the participants were first ranked on their openness levels and then shown a film scene designed to cause anger. While viewing, they were given different instructions: to suppress their emotions, to think about something else to distract themselves or to try emotional reassessment — looking at the scene through another angles. Some were also given no instruction on how to regulate their feelings. After viewing the film, the participants were asked to come up with an idea to use an empty space in their building. Those ideas were then evaluated by a panel of experts who did not know anything about the participants. Ideas such as using the space for “napping capsules” were considered highly creative whereas ideas like opening a similar cafeteria as before were considered low in creativity. The next experiment had a different group of 177 participants write about an experience that made them angry. They were then tasked with either writing about it again from a different emotional perspective or writing about something else as a distraction. In both experiments, conventional thinking participants who tried emotional reassessment came up with more creative ideas than other conventional thinkers who used suppression, distraction or no emotional regulation strategy at all. Notably, for participants who were considered creative thinkers to begin with, emotional reassessment did not seem to have much effect on their creativity. As to the implications of the study, Zhu suggested that supervisors in workplace should develop trainings to cultivate creative thinking skills in employees. Individuals can also practise emotional reassessment when confronted with a crisis or challenge instead of suppressing negative emotions. 18. Which of the following is most probably an example of emotional reassessment? A. Considering an occurrence objectively. B. Taking one’s success as an opportunity. C. Distracting oneself from an annoying event. D. Regarding disappointment as a turning point. 19. From the study, we know that ______. A. creative thinkers’ creativity was enhanced after practising emotional reassessment B. evaluating experts had adequate information about the research subjects C. the research findings could be applied to the training of employees D. the first experiment aimed to select the most creative design 20. Which would be the best title for the passage? A. Change Feelings to Boost Creativity B. Effective Strategies to Manage Emotions C. Think Over to Explore Creative Potential D. A New Way to Remove Negative Emotions D As we enter a period of profound economic uncertainty, presaged (预示) by recent high-profile layoffs and a culture of “quiet quitting”, thinking about the future of work might well seem a daunting (令人生畏的) prospect. Indeed, an ever-increasing digital skills gap threatens to stop businesses adopting the game-changing technologies that will help to power growth in the months and years ahead. For instance, with each exciting new technology comes a growing concern about whether we have a digitally savvy (精明的) workforce ready to take advantage of it. After all, keeping the workforce up to speed with the latest advances is a key element of the digital transformation process, which will prove essential if we hope to improve business productivity and efficiency alongside our efforts to achieve sustained growth. Likewise, at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, the cybersecurity skills gap was named as one particular area of concern. There’s good reason for this focus: if businesses can’t protect themselves against external threats, they risk going backwards. And that’s before they even start thinking about achieving growth. This is why we need to address the digital skills gap urgently. Well, we should start by changing the narrative to help us recruit and retain from a more diverse pool of talent, giving businesses a far better chance of finding the up-to-date digital skills they need. And, when it comes to engaging and empowering the current workforce, learning and development opportunities will be key, helping employees to improve their skills for the benefit of both themselves and their employers. To make this all happen, leaders and employers must demonstrate a commitment to teaching their workforces digital skills by setting clear expectations and providing all the resources required. One approach, for example, would be to focus on the potential in the existing talent pool by identifying those already skilled in digital capabilities and supporting them to upskill their colleagues. Creating a culture of learning, with an emphasis on personal growth, can be an impressive motivator in the workplace. Of course, it’s all well and good saying that digital skills are vital, but a workforce with purely hard skills will not future-proof a business. There’s a need for soft skills that support the broader goal, so as not to ignore the other competencies required in a digital transformation: communication, critical thinking, creative design skills, and leadership. To make full use of the technology, such qualities are equally important. Fundamentally, getting the interaction right between humans and technology will be paramount if businesses are to succeed. As a result, human skills must not be underestimated. Every business will need a range of people with a variety of skills — not only those well-versed in math, engineering, and science, but also those with creative minds and leadership qualities. 21. The writer’s main concern in the digital transformation process is ______. A. the threats from technology B. the challenge of upskilling workforces C. the culture of quiet quitting D. the shortage of experienced workers 22. It can be learned from Paragraph 4 and 5 that ______. A. replacing current workforces with digital talents is the key B. high requirements of recruitment ensure a sound workforce C. employers should develop a learning culture inside their workforces D. business leaders should focus on the training of the existing talent pool 23. What does the underlined word “paramount” in the last paragraph probably mean? A. Crucial. B. Beneficial. C. Challenging D. Inspiring 24. What might be the purpose of the passage? A. To advocate the necessity of improving digital skills. B. To warn humans of the potential problems with technology. C. To stress the importance of combining hard skills with soft skills. D. To draw people’s attention to the ever-increasing digital skills gap. 第二节 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。选项中有两项为多余选项。 Adults are often embarrassed about asking for aid. It’s an act that can make people feel emotionally unsafe. 25 Seeking assistance can feel like you are broadcasting your incompetence. New research suggests young children don’t seek help in school, even when they need it, for the same reason. Until recently, psychologists assumed that children did not start to care about their reputation and their friends’ thoughts about them until around age nine. But our research suggests that as early as age seven, children begin to connect asking for help with looking incompetent in front of others. At some point, every child struggles in the classroom. 26 To learn more about how children think about reputation, we created simple stories and then asked children questions about these situations to allow kids to showcase their thinking. Across several studies, we asked 576 children, ages four to nine, to predict the behavior of two kids in a story. One of the characters genuinely wanted to be smart, and the other merely wanted to seem smart to others. In one study, we told children that both kids did poorly on a test. 27 The four-year-olds were equally likely to choose either of the two kids as the one who would seek help. But by age seven or eight, children thought that the kid who wanted to seem smart would be less likely to ask for assistance. And children’s expectations were truly “reputational” in nature — they were specifically thinking about how the characters would act in front of others. When assistance could be sought privately (on a computer rather than in person), children thought both characters were equally likely to ask for it. 28 Teachers could give children more opportunities to seek assistance privately. They should also help students realize asking questions in front of others as normal, positive behavior. 29 Parents could point out how a child’s question kicked off a valuable conversation in which the entire family got to talk and learn together. Adults could praise kids for seeking assistance. These responses send a strong signal that other people value a willingness to ask for aid and that seeking help is part of a path to success. A. Kids could be afraid to ask their parents for help. B. Seeking help could even be taught as socially desirable. C. In another study we told them that only one kid did poorly. D. Such reputational barriers likely require reputation-based solutions. E. The moment you ask for directions, after all, you reveal that you are lost. F. But if they are afraid to ask for help because their classmates are watching, learning will suffer. G. We then asked which of these characters would be more likely to raise their hand, in front of their class to ask the teacher for help. 第Ⅱ卷 三、根据语境拼写单词（本大题共6小题，共6分） 30. Watching movies and listening to podcasts in the target language can boost language ______ (习得) outside the classroom. 31. The teacher’s p______ (在场) in the classroom helps maintain discipline and focus. 32. Despite being released years ago, the band’s old songs still enjoy great p______ and are now loved by a new generation of listeners. 33. Success in learning a foreign language requires consistent d______ (勤奋) and practice. 34. In many cultures, people honor their ______ (祖先) with special ceremonies and offerings. 35. By turning your travel memories into daily i______, you can keep that vacation spirit alive long after your vacation. 四、选词填空：请根据语境选择词语，并用其恰当形式填空，每个词仅使用一次（本大题共4小题，共8分） observe, acknowledge, feature, tailor, composition, promote 36. We ________ the school’s anniversary next Friday with a series of cultural events. 37. Eileen Gu, ________ as a pioneer of Chinese winter sports, keeps challenging herself and breaking records. 38. The soil ________ varies greatly from one region to another, affecting the types of plants that can grow well. 39. He ________ last month and now leads a team of ten people. 五、语法填空：阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个恰当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。（本大题共9小题，共13.5分） A Francis Bacon first proposed that knowledge comes from questioning, observing, and testing — a method still used today. In the 17th century, this went against popular 40 (believe). People trusted the church and ancient ideas, like Aristotle’s view that Earth was the universe’s center. Galileo proved him wrong but was punished. Both Bacon and Galileo made mistakes, yet their courage to challenge conventional thought advanced human understanding. They remind us that knowledge keeps 41 (grow), and no one knows everything. B Companies spend billions targeting children and teens, using their spending power and “pester power.” Ads appear everywhere online and can harm young people’s health, self-image, and impulse control. 42 regulations exist, they are not enough. 43 (protect) themselves, young consumers should think 44 (critical) about ads: question promises, check sources, distinguish wants 45 needs, and limit screen time. Advertising is unavoidable, but we can prevent it from controlling our choices. C If you are looking for unique adventure, the Space and Aviation (SAC) is the place to be. The Center offers programs 46 (design) to challenge and inspire with hands-on tasks and lots of fun. So far, more than 750,000 people 47 (graduate) from SAC, with many seeking employment in engineering, aviation, education, medicine and a wide variety of other professions. They come to camp, wanting to know 48 it is like to be an astronaut or a pilot. 六、补全句子：请根据括号中所给中文提示填空，注意使用恰当形式（本大题共3小题，共12分） 49. 适度的焦虑能驱使我们发挥出最佳水平，因此我们应学会合理疏导焦虑，并将其转化为动力。 Moderate anxiety can ________________, so we should learn to ________________. 50. 主动学习并成为自主学习者，是学生的责任。 It’s student’s responsibility to ________________ and ________________. 51. 如今，数字媒体让我们能够轻松地跟进新闻并获取多元信息，这使得运用知识与批判性思维去解读并评估信息比以往任何时候都更为重要。 Nowadays, digital media allows us to ________________ easily, which makes it more important than ever for us to ________________. 七、书面表达（共两节，32分） 第一节（共4小题；第52、53题各2分，第54题3分，第55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。 In Martin County, Florida, two non-profit organizations have come together to plant seeds of hope through community gardening. Recently, the House of Hope charity for the homeless and people with addictions and other mental health issues partnered with Project L.I.F.T., an organization that helps at-risk teens, to grow community gardens in four small towns across the county. The teens in Project L.I.F.T.’s program — many of them aged 14-19 who are also struggling with addictions, managing mental health or legal issues — visit the gardens every day after school where they grow seeds, maintain and water plants, harvest the produce and learn to create their own meals. They take some of the produce home to their families but most is sent to House of Hope for the homeless community. Beyond the need for food, Project L.I.F.T. hoped the gardens would provide an educational opportunity for their teens. “We’re trying to teach kids nutrition to deal with the health problems — diabetes and obesity — in our community, but when we get into the garden, now they’re doing hands-on stuff that really connects.” Bob Zaccheo, the executive director of Project L.I.F.T. tells Guideposts.org. The gardens also offer the teens professional skills that can help them find work later in their largely rural county. Beyond skills, this project has helped the teens find confidence and hope for their futures. So far, the four gardens around Martin County have generated 100 pounds of produce for House of Hope and the community at large. Although the amount of food can’t meet the greater need of the area, the program is an opportunity to teach kids that the importance of giving back is just as valuable as the food they’re harvesting. “You see a major shift in the thinking of these kids,” Zaccheo says. “You see them giving. The kids are learning to give at a bigger level than they’ve ever been able to give at before.” 52. What kind of organization is Project L.I.F.T.? 53. What do the teens do when they visit the gardens? 54. Please decide which part is false in the following statement, then underline it and explain why. The four gardens were built only to provide an educational opportunity for at-risk teens. 55. In addition to what is mentioned in the passage, what else could at-risk teens learn through community gardening? Explain why. (In about 40 words) 第二节（20分） 56. 假设你是红星中学高二学生李华。你校来自英国的交换生Jim发邮件请你推荐一门学校特色课程。请你用英文给他回复邮件，内容包括： 1. 你推荐的课程； 2. 你的理由。 Dear Jim, ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Yours, Li Hua 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $null