四川天府第七中学执诚高中2025-2026学年高二上期第二次阶段性测试英语试题

天府七中执诚高2024级高二上期第二次阶段性测试 英语 试卷总分150分 考试时间120分钟 命题人：郭君，李春来 审题人：李春来，郭君 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。每段对话仅读一遍。 1.What is the probable relationship between the speakers? A.Teacher and student. B.Salesgirl and customer C Husband and wife 2.What does the man think of the woman's new house? A.Astonishing B.Disappointing C.Satisfying 3.What does the woman mean according to the conversation? A.The students are interested in the philosophy classes. B.The classes given by the philosophy teacher are quite boring C.The philosophy teacher is not so popular among his students 4.What are the speakers mainly talking about? A.Watching TV. B.Buying a TV. C.Placing the TV. 5.Why does the woman intend to phone Harry? A.Because Harry will join them in the bike ride. B.Because Harry is familiar with the places for cycling. C.Because Harry enjoys travelling. 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。 听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。 6.Why does the man want to talk to the director? A.To keep his appointment with the director next week. B.To talk about his plan to visit England next week. C.To talk about his schedule to go home next week. 7.How long has the man been away from his motherland? A.Over two years B.About a year C.Less than one month 听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。 8.How many bags were of oolors other than black in Lost and Found? A.Three B.Five C.Eleven 9.What do we know about the woman's bag? A.It's small. B.It has a zip. C.It has a pocket on the front. 10.What is in the woman's bag? 第1页共10页 A.Atoy B.Some snacks C.Some books 听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。 11.Where is the Flower Show? A.In the City Park B.In the Forest Park C.In the Flower Park 12.What did the woman's daughter say about the Flower Show? A.It was beautiful. B It was open in the morning C.It was the biggest tourist attraction in the city. 13.What can we learn from the conversation? A.The man will go to the Flower Show. B.The woman has been to see the Flower Show once. C.The woman's daughter went to the Flower Show yesterday. 听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。 14.What is the woman's problem? A.She forgot to buy apple pies. B.The apple pies she made have gone bad C.She is at a loss what to have for dessert 15.What does the woman say about Steve's parents? A.They are very considerate. B.They are always complaining. C.They tend to eat less dessert. 16.What does the man suggest the woman do? A.Go out to have dinner. B.Buy some fruit and vegetables. C.Prepare fresh fruit and cheese for dessert. 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。 17.What is the speaker's main purpose of coming to England? A.To make a trip to the city B.To buy some presents for her boyfriend. C.To attend a conference and exhibition. 18.What did the speaker do yesterday? A.She visited Chinatown. B.She did some shopping. C.She registered for the exhibition. 19.What arrangements did the speaker make for the exhibition today? A.She checked in at the hotel B.She discussed with the manager about the conference C.She persuaded people to buy their holidays and tours. 20.Where is the stand of the speaker's company? A.Near the restaurant B.Near the coffee shop C.Near the clothes shop 第2页共10页 第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分50分） 第一节（共15小题；每小题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。 A POETRY CHALLENGE Write a poem about how courage,determination,and strength have helped you face challenges in your life. Prizes 3 Grand Prizes:Trip to Washington DC for each of three winners,a parent and one other person of the winner's choice.Trip includes round-trip air tickets,hotel stay for two nights,and tours of the National Air and Space Museum and the office of National Geographic World. 6 First Prizes:The book Sky Pioneer:A Photobiography of Amelia Earhart signed by author Corinne Szabo and pilot Linda Finch. 50 Honorable Mentions:Judges will choose up to 50 honorable mention winners,who will each receive a T-shirt in memory of Earhart's final flight. Rules Follow all rules carefully to prevent disqualification. Write a poem using 100 words or fewer.Your poem can be any format,any number of lines. Write by hand or type on a single sheet of paper.You may use both the front and back of the paper. On the same sheet of paper,write or type your name,address,telephone number,and birth date. Mail your entry to us by October 31 this year. 21.How many people can each grand prize winner take on the free trip? A.One. B.Two. C.Three. D.Four. 22.What will each of the honorable mention winners get? A.A special T-shirt B.A plane ticket. C.A photo of Amelia Earhart. D.A book by Corinne Szabo. 23.Which of the following will result in disqualification? A.Mailing your entry on October 30. B.Using both sides of the paper. C Typing your poem out. D.Writing a poem of 120 words B I have worked as a keeper at the National Zoo,Paris for 11 years.Spot and Stripe are the first tiger cubs that have ever been born here.Globally,a third of Sumatran cubs in zoos don't make it to adulthood,so I 第3页共10页 decided to give them round-the-clock care at home. I've got two children-the younger one,Kynan,was extremely happy about the tigers arriving-but all of us really looked forward to being part of their lives and watching them grow.I wasn't worried about bringing them into my home with my wife and kids.These were cubs.They weighed about 2.5 kg and were so small that there was absolutely no risk. As they grew more mobile,we let them move freely around the house during the day,but when we were asleep we had to contain them in a large room,otherwise they'd get up to mischief.We'd come down in the morning to find they'd turned the room upside down,and left it looking like a zoo. -Things quickly got very intense due to the huge amount of energy required to look after them.There were some tough times and I just felt extremely tired.I was grateful that my family was there to help.We had to have a bit of a production line going,making up"tiger milk",washing baby bottles,and cleaning the floors. When Spot and Stripe were four months old,they were learning how to open doors and jump fences, and we knew it really was time for them to go.It was hard for us to finally part with them.For the first few days,Kynan was always a bit disappointed that the cubs weren't there. I'm not sad about it.I'm hands-on with them every day at the zoo,and I do look back very fondly on the time that we had them. 24.Why did the author bring the tiger cubs home? A.To let them play with his kids. B.To ensure their survival. C.To teach them life skills. D.To observe their differences. 25.What do the underlined words"get up to mischief'mean in paragraph 3? A.Miss their mom.B.Lose their way. C.Sleep soundly D.Behave badly. 26.What did the author think of raising the tiger cubs at home? A.Tiring. B Boring. C.Costly. D.Risky. 27.Why did the author decide to send Spot and Stripe back to the zoo? A.They frightened the children. B.They annoyed the neighbors. C.They became difficult to contain. D.They started fighting each other. 第4页共10页 C Second place is just the first loser.While the competitive spirit may be as natural as breathing air,it doesn't always lead to human flourishing and can create misery.Fortunately,there is a formula to solve this problem:instead of always going for gold,shoot for the bronze. Though second place may be the first loser,third place can be the real winner regarding happiness and longevity.In a 1995 study,scholars systematically coded the emotional reactions of silver and bronze medalists in the 1992 Summer Olympic Games.Using slow-motion footage captured both immediately after their events and later on the awards podium,researchers found the bronze winners appeared consistently happier on average than the silver medalists.Over 80%of bronze medalists exhibited genuine smiles,a figure that was nearly double that observed among silver medalists.Moreover,every bronze medalist's smile lasted longer than the average smile observed among the silver medalists. More recent research has looked at the life span of all three medalist categories.A 2018 study tracked the average longevity of those representing the U.S.in the Olympic Games from 1904 to 1936 and found that the athlete whose best performance was silver lived to 72.Gold medalists beat this by four years,living to 76.But first prize in longevity went to the bronze medalists,who lived to 78. The study had a handy explanation for this discrepancy:"Unsatisfactory competition outcomes may adversely affect health."In other words,silver medalists see themselves as the first loser because they look up to the top step and compare themselves only with the gold medalists,whereas the bronze winners compare themselves favorably with all the others who never made it onto the podium at all.This theory shows the difference between upward and downward social comparison.When we compare ourselves with those who have more money,power,or achievements,we often teel like,well.losers.It tends to lower motivation and increase stress.In contrast,downward comparison makes people feel better about themselves and,thus,happier. The worldly happiness strategy of striving for gold every day is foolish.It tends to lower the intrinsic motivation,and thu's enjoyment that people obtain from their activities.The principle at work here is trying to improye your own past performance and the only person to whom you will have to compare yourself is you. 28.What can be learned from the 1995 study? A.Silver medalists showed less happiness than bronze winners. B.Silver medalists'smiling frequency was close to that of gold medalists. C.The average bronze medalist's smile lasted longer than every silver medalist's. D.The emotions of both medalists were unchanged from the events to the podium. 29.What is the cause of the difference in medalists'life span? A.The stress from downward social comparison. B.The motivation from upward social comparison. C.The effect of different types of social comparison. D.The failure to look up to the top after the competition 30.What does the writer advise us to do to achieve happiness? A.Learn from the top performers. B.Try to be the best in every field. C.Strengthen the motivation to obtain achievement.D.Commit to one's consistent personal growth. 31.Which of the following is the best title for the passage? A.The Problem of Human Competition B.The Triumph of Coming in Third C.The Mechanism of Social Comparison D.The Psychology of the Olympic Medalists 第5页共10页 D On September 9,2024,Apple released its latest iPhone 16 series at an event called"It's Glowtime".At the event,Tim Cook,the company's CEO,played up the promise of the phones'AI features in a pre-recorded video. Indeed,the demonstration seemed impressive.When Cook pointed the camera at a restaurant,the AI assistant Siri could tell him what was on the menu.It also could answer his questions fairly well and learn about the users from their interactions with their devices.For instance,Siri could know if a user's mother was calling and acted appropriately. Apple is one of many firms that want to take AI beyond huge data centres,known as the cloud,and run it on smaller devices.known as the edge.Samsung,Apple's major competitor,launched its Galaxy S24 with some AI features earlier this year.So did Microsoft,which has launched Windows PCs designed for AI.But their efforts have shown that it is not easy to shift cloud-based AI models to the edge devices. At present,cloud-based AI models are mostly trained on graphics processing units (GPUs)that cousume so much energy that it can take a nuclear-power plant to fuel them.They also need huge amounts of memory and data.All these can cost hundreds of millions of dollars.Even once they are trained,running these AI models is costly.According to one estimate,it costs OpenAl,the maker of ChatGPT,36 cents every time someone asks its AI model a question. Companies are experimenting with various solutions to these problems.Apple will offer on-device AI to deal with the easiest tasks,but send trickier problems to the firm's private cloud.The service will direct the most difficult requests to third-party models such as ChatGPT.But even such smaller on-device AI models require a lot of computing power to run,which puts huge stress on the edge devices'batteries. "Making the technology work could not only start a supercycle in device sales,but also create new opportunities for apps and digital advertising,"says Neil Shah of Counterpoint,a research firm."But for the moment,edge devices are barely ready for basic functions,let alone Glowtime." 32.What is the second paragraph mainly about? A.The Glowtime event. B.Tim Cook's performance. C.iPhone 16's AI features. D.The future of AI phones. 33.Why are Samsung and Microsoft mentioned in the text? A.To tell readers how bad competition can be. B.To warn Apple of the potential consequences C.To compare their newly released edge devices. D.To show how hard it is to apply AI to edge devices. 34.What is the problem with cloud-based AI models? A.OpenAI charges too much money. B.All of them have to be trained on GPUs. C.It is too expensive to train and run them. D.They can only deal with the easiest tasks. 35.What does Neil Shah most probably imply? A.AI phones'success will depend on new apps. B.iPhone 16 is likely to disappoint its users. C.Sales of AI phones will increase greatly soon. D.Tim Cook was not honest with the AI features. 第6页共10页 第二节（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。 The Secret to Taking Great Notes Taking good notes is a key part of the learning process.However,merely writing down what you hear word-for-word is ineffective.Here are some proven strategies to transform your note-taking. One of the most popular and structured systems is the Cornell Method,developed for and widely taught at Cornell University.36 This physical layout guides your thinking process.During class,take notes in the main section.After class,use the cue column to write keywords or questions.Finally,write a brief summary of the entire lesson at the bottom of the page.This multi-step process is scientifically proven to significantly improve long-term memory retention. For those who think in images and connections,Mind Mapping is a visual way to organize information. Start with the main topic in the center and draw branches out for key subtopics.37 You can use colors,symbols,and arrows to make connections.This method is especially beneficial for visual learners as it shows the relationships between concepts,making complex topics easier to grasp. Regardless of the method you choose,the core principle is active engagement.Don't just passively record information.38 Engage with the material by paraphrasing the speaker's points.This forces you to process and understand the information on the spot. Of course,the best method is the one that works for you.39 You might use the Cornell Method for history lectures,which are dense with facts,but a Mind Map for brainstorming an essay topic.You might even combine different elements from various methods to create your own personalized system. 40 Review your notes periodically within 24 hours of taking them.This short,spaced repetition is one of the most powerful ways to move information from your short-term to your long-term memory,solidifying your learning and making exam preparation much less stressful. A.Then,add smaller branches for specific details. B.Therefore,it is popular among university students C.Ultimately,it's crucial to review your notes afterward. D.Experiment with different techniques to find your favorite. E.This means you can paraphrase the content in your own words. F.Instead,focus on summarizing the main idea in simple elegant words. G.It divides your paper into a cue column,a notes section,and a summary area. 第7页共10页 第三部分语言运用（共两节，满分30分） 第一节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分） 阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 Michael Surrell and his wife had just parked the car when they got a call from their daughter:"The house next door is on fire!"He instantly went to41 and saw an old woman cried."The baby is inside!""The baby"was 8-year-old Tiara Roberts,the woman's 42 Though the fire department had been called,Surrell 43 rushed into the burning house.The thick 44 caused him to stumble blindly around and made it impossible to 45.After a few minutes in the smoke-filled house,he moved outside to 46 his breath. "Where is Tiara?"he asked 47 "The second floor,"her grandma shouted back. Taking a deep breath,Surrell went in a second time.Because the house had a48layout to his,he found the stairs easily and made it to the second floor. But the darkness was 49.All he could feel was the crackling and popping of burning wood.Then a soft but 50 moan emerged.He crawled toward the sound,feeling around for any 51 of the little girl.Finally,he 52 something.He scooped Tiara into his arms,53 through the smoke. Fortunately,Surrell managed to help Tiara out,she was 54from the hospital after a few days. However,The fire worsened Surrell's pulmonary (condition,which he suffered before,and he feels the effects even two years later."It's a small 55 to pay,"he says."I would do it again without a second thought.” 41.A.instruct B.witness C appreciate D.investigate 42.A.granddaughter B.niece C.cousin D.daughter 43.A.consciously B.immediately C.casually D.calmly 44.A.dust B.mist C.smoke D.smog 45.A.escape B.breathe C.distinguish D.scream 46.A.hold B.save C.waste D.catch 47.A.desperately B.cautiously C.nervously D.randomly 48.A.opposite B.different C.similar D.familiar 49.A.thrilling B.overwhelming C.challenging D.threatening 50.A.firm B.loud C.sharp D.distinct 51.A.track B.symbol C.sign D.sound 52.A.found B.touched C.explored D.got 53.A.struggled B.broke C.went D.ran 54.A.rescued B.transported C.released D.suspended 55.A.fine B.bill C.check D.price 第8页共10页 第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分） 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或所给单词的正确形式（三个单词内）· Over the past decade,ancient books that record the Chinese culture are growing in 、56 (popular). A national effort to systemically protect ancient books was launched in 2007,and since then some of the key tasks such as national statistics of ancient texts57complete).The rest of the work,which includes research and publication,is ongoing. In recent years,the government has released a large number of documents on the protection of ancient books,58 (highlight)the great importance it attaches to the task.In 2022,book protection was written into 59 central government's annual work report for the first time. A typical example in this field was a program 60 (launch)in 2013 by the National Library of China to restore the "Tianlu Linlang"collection.61 ancient books.After eight years,the library announced the restoration work on the more than 300 ancient books collected by the Qing Dynasty emperors 62 had once been stored in the Forbidden City had been completed. The restorers worked with great care63 made many great achievements in the program. Through it,a large number of young artisans have been cultivated,and they applied modern technology in the process,promoting the development of ancient book restoration techniques in a64(science) way. A highlight of the work has been the digitization of the books.Ancient books are cultural relics,which are becoming 65(increase)fragile.Protecting them in a digital way means scanning them and sharing the copies,so that the general public can make good use of them. 第四部分写作（共两节，满分40分） 第一节（满分15分） 天府七中高二年级Lgugh out1oud脱口秀大秀于11月27日在音乐厅圆满落幕。请你为校报 写一篇短文报道此次活动。内容包括：1、活动目的；2、活动过程；3、活动影响。 注意：1.词数80词左右；2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯 第9页共10页 第二节（满分25分) 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。 I used to be very active in sports and games when I was in primary school.I won the B Division long jump and was a good sprinter(短跑运a动员).As a result,,I was chosen to represent the school in the long jump and relay events at the District Sports Meeting.Before the sports meeting,I had put in a lot of hard work and dedication during the training sessions.I woke up early every morning to go for runs and did countless drills to improve my technique.My teammates and I supported and encouraged each other during training,pushing ourselves to do better and achieve our goals. The meeting lasting two days,I had no events scheduled for the first day.So I kept myself busy by watching the others compete.Large tents were provided for the young competitors on one side of the track. Despite being assigned the last tent that was furthest from the track,I made the best of the situation by decorating it with our school colors and creating a supportive atmosphere. The next day,I was getting ready for my events.The long jump was scheduled for the early afternoon, followed by the 8x50m relay later in the afternoon.I thought I was a pretty good jumper,but as the competition began,I realized I was vastly outclassed.We finished our jumps,and I came in fourth place, just missing out on a medal. That was disappointing,but I reminded myself that we still had a chance in the 8x50m relay,for which I was assigned to run the fifth leg.The race date arrived.We filed into our assigned spots and prepared for the race.After a tense minute or so,I heard the starter's gun go off.When the first runners took off,I watched nervously and excitedly as my team runners kept up with the others.As they got closer,I realized we were at least in second place. 注意： 1.续写词数应为150左右；2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。 My turn arrived and I took the baton(接力捧)cleanly and began my run. As a result,I left the meeting empty-handed. 第10页共10页