重庆市育才中学校2025-2026学年高二5月英语期中考试英语试卷

高2027届5月英语定时作业 （试卷满分150分，考试时间120分钟） 注意事项： 1．答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考生号等填写在答题卡上。 2．回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上，写在本试卷上无效。 3．考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。 第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分） 做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。 第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分） 听下面5段录音，每段录音后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段录音后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段录音播放两遍。 1. What does John like best? A. Sausages. B. Fish and chips. C. Potatoes. 2. When will Headmaster Wang return? A. On Saturday morning. B. On Friday afternoon. C. On Tuesday afternoon. 3. Why does the man want to go to the park? A. To try snowshoeing. B. To learn how to ski. C. To enjoy horse-riding. 4. What seems to be the woman’s problem? A. She can’t decide on a sport. B. She doesn’t like doing sports. C. She is afraid of trying new sports. 5. What are the speakers probably talking about? A. A desert. B. A couple. C. A movie. 第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分） 听下面5段录音，每段录音后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段录音前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，每小题都有5秒钟的作答时间。每段录音播放两遍。 听第6段录音，回答第6、7题。 6. What is the relationship between the speakers? A. Colleagues. B. Classmates. C. Teacher and student. 7. What will the woman do this weekend? A. Buy a computer. B. Check her emails. C. Gather up her papers. 听第7段录音，回答第8、9题。 8. What does the man want to do? A. Have his shoes repaired. B. Work in the repair shop. C. Get his shoes back now. 9. What are the shop assistants going to do next week? A. Take a business trip. B. Decorate the shop. C. Spend a holiday. 听第8段录音，回答第10至12题。 10. Why is Marnie upset? A. She is unable to join the contest. B. She isn’t confident about the contest. C. She was beaten by Laura in a contest. 11. What does Marnie say about Laura? A. Laura is excellent. B. Laura looks very shy. C. Laura doesn’t work hard. 12. What does the man suggest Marnie do? A. Do more practice. B. Read famous speeches. C. Learn much from Laura. 听第9段录音，回答第13至16题。 13. Where does the conversation probably take place? A. At a hotel. B. At the post office. C. At the airport. 14. What will the woman do with her laptop? A. Deposit it there. B. Take it with her. C. Put it in Room 213. 15. How much should the woman pay for storing the baggage per hour? A. $13. B. $8. C. $5. 16. What time is it now? A. 7:20. B. 6:20. C. 5:20. 听第10段录音，回答第17至20题。 17. What is the speaker? A. A student. B. A teacher. C. An engineer. 18. What are club members responsible for? A. Working on a robot together. B. Organizing a competition. C. Testing all the robots. 19. What can the students do to join the club? A. Hand in their designs first. B. Contact Mr. Irimina. C. Register at Room 301. 20. How often does the club meet? A. Once a week. B. Twice a week. C. Three times a week. 第二部分 阅读（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、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。 A Campus Through Your Eyes! With the 70th anniversary of our school approaching, the Student Union is holding a photography competition open to all students. With the theme of “Beautiful Moments on Campus”, it aims to inspire us to discover and record the hidden beauty of our campus, from the quiet garden in the morning to the lively playground after class. All entries must follow the strict rules below to guarantee fair judging, with extra details on awards and submission for your reference. General Rules · All photos must be original and taken on campus (including playgrounds, gardens, and school events). · No edited photos (except basic cropping and brightness adjustment) are allowed. · Each student can submit up to 3 photos. · Winners will be announced on the school website and awarded prizes. Submission Details · Please send your photos to photocomp@school.edu with the subject line: PhotoComp _ YourName _ Class. ·File name: YourName Photol (2/3). jpg. ·Photo size: At least 2MB, no more than 10MB. ·Deadline: All entries must be received by May 20, 2026 (11:59 PM). Late submissions will not be accepted. Award Setting There is 1 First Prize, 3 Second Prizes, 5 Third Prizes and 10 Honorable Mentions. Winners will get photo albums, printing cards and custom campus souvenirs. All winning works will be displayed on the school notice board and in the campus photo exhibition for one month. Entries will be judged based on the following criteria: Evaluation Criteria Weight Theme Relevance 28% Artistic Expression 35% Originality & Creativity 25% Technical Quality 12% 21. What is the purpose of the text? A. To inspire students to explore nature. B. To inform students of a campus activity. C. To instruct students on photography skills. D. To encourage students to beautify the school. 22. Which of the following photos meets the competition requirements? A. A photo of the school marathon with a size of 11 MB. B. A photo of the reading corner with brightness adjusted. C A photo of the quiet school garden taken by an art teacher. D. A photo of the playgrounds downloaded from the school website. 23. What can we learn about the Award Setting? A. Winning entries will be shown online. B. Awards fall into three categories. C. Souvenirs will be given to participants. D. Artistic expression outweighs creativity. B Looking for a way to cut back on how often I had to water my container garden, I tried self-watering containers and found that I needed to water much less often. Self-watering containers with big tomato or squash plants needed water every three or four days, but younger, smaller plants got by with water once a week. No plants needed daily watering. These containers make it possible for the container gardener to have a life beyond the garden. I also got a nice surprise: I found that virtually all the vegetable plants I grow in my regular gardens grow at least as well in self-watering containers. Some grow better. Artichokes or eggplant can’t be conventionally grown in my area due to the short growing season where plants often struggle to keep up with water need, but in a self-watering container, they grow quickly enough. It appears that water is the key. As long as there is water in the reservoir, the soil throughout the container is always moist. In a traditional container, after watering, the soil — and the plants — have progressively less water available. Plants become stressed whenever they have insufficient water, and self-watering containers eliminate (排除) that possibility. Most self-watering containers are rectangular plastic ones, but there are also round and hanging ones. They all work, though some inexpensive ones have reservoirs too small to offer any advantage over traditional containers. The critical differences have to do with size: How much soil can it hold? How deep is the soil? Big plants need big pots. Soil 8 inches deep satisfies most plants, but carrots need 12 inches. Reservoirs need to be big enough to allow at least three or four days between waterings. 24. What affects how often self-watering containers need to be watered? A. The size of the plants. B. The depth of the soil. C. The material of the container. D. The color of the container. 25. What’s the key advantage of self-watering containers? A. Shortening the growing cycle. B. Adapting the plant to dry conditions. C. Removing the risk of dry soil. D. Changing traditional planting ways. 26. What can be learned about choosing a self-watering container? A. Soil type changes water storage. B. A low-cost reservoir works just fine. C. Root vegetables need wider containers. D. The shape makes little difference in use. 27. Where is the text most likely taken from? A. A product review website. B. A gardening tips column. C. A home improvement blog. D. A plant science textbook. C Getting the most out of going to galleries involves more than just showing up. While a casual approach — “I don’t know much about art, but I know what I like” — might satisfy some, truly appreciating a painting requires a determination to go deeper. Trust your eyes. Art is made to be looked at. And when your eyes decide whether they like something or not, they are drawing on the experience of a lifetime. So trust your eyes when they whisper their first impressions. Why do so many people love Van Gogh’s Sunflowers? The moment you see them, they feel uplifting, joyous, and instantly pleasurable. Your eyes may be the most important organ for looking at art, but the heart runs them a close second. When we look at a painting, we get somebody’s message sent to us. Take Daughters Chasing a Butterfly by Thomas Gainsborough for example. The first thing to feel is the artist’s love for his little girls. To my eyes, it’s entirely unmissable. The two girls, their faces recorded with so much insider skills, are chasing a butterfly, which has landed on a prickly (有刺的) plant. When they try to grab it, they might get hurt. So a loving daddy hasn’t just painted his love for his daughters. He has also painted his fears for them. If you judge art by your own level of competence or understanding, you’re looking at art through a blindfold. Turner’s The Fighting Temeraire serves as an example: a seemingly simple sunset hides rich symbolic meanings. Its intense visual brilliance holds deeper messages visible only to those who rise above a narrow personal view. Instead of limiting your appreciation to what you like, expand it to include what many others have liked before you. Like all life’s profound pleasures, looking at art is a complex business. More accurately, it’s a pleasure with many layers and stages. But for the experienced art lover, the real joy is in the build-up, the delicious journey, the awesome pay-off. 28. What are viewers advised to do first in looking at art? A. Go over the history of art. B. Draw on artists’ experience. C. Compare with other artwork. D. Rely on initial visual impressions. 29. Why is Gainsborough’s painting mentioned in paragraph 3? A. To show that love is popular in family-themed paintings. B. To indicate that viewing art involves heart-to-heart connection. C. To illustrate that viewers are easily struck by the skills of artists. D. To prove that art serves as a visual record of an artist’s personal life. 30. What does the underlined word “blindfold” probably mean? A. A way to limit one’s view. B. A tool to protect one’s eyes. C. A method to judge art objectively. D. A means to improve one’s taste. 31. What is the text mainly about? A. How to better engage with art. B. How to read artists’ emotion. C. How to better evaluate visual arts. D. How to analyze famous paintings. D A watched pot never boils, but time has wings when you’re having fun. The familiar saying has a basis in solid science — our sense of time does expand and contract depending on the way we experience the world. Even delicate visual features can affect how we perceive (感知) time. New research shows more memorable images seem to last longer. Martin Wiener, head of the research, says the finding reveals how the brain’s time-bending strategy allows it to process and remember more information. While what is actually happening in the brain when time seems to expand remains unclear, scientists suspect it may have something to do with helping the brain process more information in limited time. This is especially relevant to the brain’s visual system which, exposed to information overload, has to rank in order of importance, allowing for limited resources. Recent research has shown some images are more naturally memorable than others. To understand how this memorability of an image might relate to our subjective sense of time, Wiener and his colleagues conducted related experiments. The researchers found larger scene sizes seemed to extend time while more disorderly scenes seemed to reduce the perceived duration. Besides, the subjects perceived that more memorable images remained on the screen longer, even if they were all presented for the same amount of time. To find the underlying factor, the team fed the same memorability-ranked images to a neural (神经的) network modeled after the brain’s visual system and found more memorable images were processed faster. Why does faster brain processing make time feel slower? The answer is simple: When our brain processes things faster, it takes in more information at the same time. Our brain can only handle so much information at once, like a narrow pipe. When it needs to absorb more information, it “widens” this pipe. As a result, time feels like it’s stretching out and moving more slowly. 32. What does the familiar saying “A watched pot never boils” illustrate? A. Actively waiting makes time feel slower. B. Visual features are the key to judging time. C. Our activities do not change time perception. D. Time perception relies mainly on emotional state. 33. How does the brain’s visual system handle information? A. By comparing similar scenes. B. By sorting randomly. C. By screening out complex images. D. By setting priorities. 34. According to the text, which of the images would seem to last longer? A. B. C. D. 35. What is the best title for the text? A. How Visual Features Affect Our Sense of Time B. New Ways to Improve the Memorability of Images C. Why Time Slows Down for More Memorable Visuals D. The Brain’s Secrets to Processing Complex Information 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。 For most of my life, I always treated taste as fixed. When I moved to London, I threw myself into work while my housemates were endlessly trying new things. My automatic “no” to anything that “wasn’t my thing” only kept me trapped in the same daily routine. That left me feeling flat and a little empty. I began to question whether my taste is fixed or could be trained. I once read that children need eight to fifteen tries to accept a new food. 36 I decided to start small. When a friend invited me to a book club, I resisted the instinct (本能) to dismiss it despite my longstanding dislike of reading and went anyway. 37 Now I spend mornings reading physical books instead of wandering aimlessly. Then came music and performance — all things I had previously disregarded. 38 Gradually, I became fascinated by the unfamiliar rhythms and movements and felt proud of my survival in the end. 39 However, I stopped saying no before I had even begun. Most recently, I tried out my local library’s chess club. I was easily 30 years younger than everyone else, but that didn’t matter. Sitting opposite people with wildly different life stories made me realize how rarely I speak with other generations. We talked about their past careers, local news and new chess moves. Interestingly, I felt more connected there than with people of my age. Research suggests that engaging your curiosity in new activities can help protect against age-related cognitive (认知的) decline. 40 Getting outside my comfort zone now gives me a rush. A. Yet, I was eager for engagement. B. I didn’t love everything straight away. C. For me, it is far more than brain health. D. Initially, I was awkward and sometimes confused. E. As expected, new tastes rarely come without discomfort. F. To my surprise, I enjoyed the discussion and the people there. G. Why shouldn’t the same principle apply to social activities for adults? 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四个选项中选出最佳选项。 The players on the Academy basketball team knew something was wrong. Their coach, Brendan King, who never 41 them on weekends, urged them back to the gym. They had won the championship the night before, yet now they felt somewhat 42 . “We actually lost to Apache 43-42,” King announced. “The record-keeper 43 the score.” All fell silent. “But this doesn’t 44 how proud I am of you and how hard we worked to get here.” 45 it was a bitter pill for them to swallow. Within 20 minutes’ debating, the whole team 46 to turn the trophy (奖杯) over to the rightful champions, Apache. The game had been physical and 47 . Scoring was back and forth until the fourth quarter, when Apache pulled away by 14 points. The Academy players, 48 to give up and fought back hard, hitting shot after shot. Ultimately, they hit a 3-point buzzer-beater (压哨球) to top Apache by a point. The players 49 , but strangely King had a sinking feeling. That night, he replayed the game tape carefully, counting every 50 . His gut (直觉) was right: An Academy shot was mistakenly counted due to the record-keeper’s poor angle. The next morning, he 51 the basketball officials before addressing his 52 . With his team’s support, King drove to Apache to 53 the trophy. “I know we didn’t have to do this,” King says. “But for us 54 means far more than a trophy. Apache earned their champion 55 , and we earned ours here.” 41. A. contacted B. followed C. praised D. welcomed 42. A. relieved B. awkward C. excited D. nervous 43. A. disregarded B. miscounted C. disallowed D. misinterpreted 44. A. reflect on B. bring out C. take away D. make for 45. A. Still B. Moreover C. Instead D. Therefore 46. A. managed B. decided C. pretended D. struggled 47. A. balanced B. casual C. intense D. flexible 48. A. learned B. tended C. hesitated D. refused 49. A. sweated B. erupted C. nodded D. escaped 50. A. point B. shot C. touch D. pass 51. A. blamed B. questioned C. alerted D. lectured 52. A. families B. assistants C. fans D. players 53. A. exchange B. deliver C. reclaim D. display 54. A. integrity B. effort C. reputation D. determination 55. A. on camera B. in sight C. on court D. in time 第二节（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。 From the misty hills of Guizhou emerges a melody (旋律) shaped by earth, water and fire. Dating back over 600 years, clay whistles (陶哨) once 56 (blow) through rural festivals and family gatherings. Made from clay 57 (entire) by hand, the whistles are formed into animal figures typically. A small air hole is left at the base, allowing the whistle to produce a clear sound when blown. 58 (combine) functionality with visual appeal, the clay whistle is both a playable object 59 a form of folk art that integrates sound with sculpture. Locals often say 60 blowing a clay whistle brings is more than just the sound of wind — it also carries the echoes of time and memory of childhood in Guizhou’s mountain landscapes. Beyond artistry, these whistles are driving 61 (sustain) tourism in the region. Workshops 62 (lead) by inheritors (传承人) welcome travelers all over the world and offer hands-on lessons that combine tradition with modern storytelling. According to local tourism boards, visits to heritage sites in Guizhou 63 (rise) by 25% in the last two years — proof that culture and community can fuel economic growth. 64 business and tech enthusiasts, Guizhou’s singing clay is a case study in preserving tradition through 65 (innovate). Thought leaders see lessons in community-led preservation, while young global citizens find a fresh way to connect across borders through song. 第四部分 书面表达（共两节，满分40分） 第一节（满分15分） 作为中国文化建设的重要主题活动，文化和自然遗产日 (Cultural and Natural Heritage Day) 定于每年六月的第二个星期六。在此特殊的日子到来之际，请你写一篇呼吁保护遗产地的文章，给校英文报投稿，内容包括： 1．保护遗产地的重要性； 2．提出具体建议。 注意： 1．写作词数应为80个左右。 2．请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。 Protect Our Heritage Sites ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 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。 Elvis was a dog with a big personality. If there was a chance to be silly, he would take it without hesitation. He loved hiding toys, spinning in dizzy circles beneath the old oak tree while chasing squirrels, and running away just far enough to make people chase him. Whenever he put on one of his little performances, Mrs. Carter, the lady next door, would lean over the fence, watching the naughty dog and shaking her head. Yet all it took to turn this little rebel (调皮鬼) into a perfect gentleman was a spoonful of peanut butter or his old tennis ball. Watching his playful nature every day, his owner Mikaela thought it might be fun to capture the world from Elvis’s point of view. So one day she bought a small GoPro camera (运动相机) and a special harness that a dog could wear. She imagined Elvis running happily while the camera recorded his little adventures. Mikaela was excited to try it, but Elvis turned out to be even more excited. On a sunny afternoon, golden light spilled across the yard, catching the edges of the bushes. The old oak tree cast shifting shadows on the grass, and a row of wildflowers swayed gently by the fence. Mikaela took Elvis outside to play and brought out the new camera. The moment Elvis saw the shiny little device, his eyes sparkled. Mikaela had barely held it out before Elvis snatched it away as quickly as a shark grabbing its food. “Oh no, not again!” Mrs. Carter called out from behind the fence. Before Mikaela could react, Elvis was racing across the yard with the GoPro in his mouth. “Hey! Elvis!” Mikaela shouted, running after him. But the more she chased him, the faster he ran. And the GoPro just stayed on the whole time! 注意： （1）续写词数应为150个左右； （2）请按如下格式在答题纸的相应位置作答。 Para. 1: Mikaela chased after him, worried a lot. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Para. 2: When Mikaela finally got the camera, she quickly checked it. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $