天津市南开区美达菲学校2025-2026学年高二年级下学期5月期中考试英语试题

天津美达菲学校高二2025-2026学年第二学期英语期中考试 第I卷（选择题共95分） 第一部分：英语知识运用（共两节，湖分45分） 第一节：单项填空（共15小题：每小题1分，满分15分） 1.-It was a wonderful National Day holiday trip.So,which city did you like better,Hangzhou or Wuxi? There were good things and bad things about them. A.It's hard to say B.I didn't get it C.You must be kidding D.Couldn't be better 2.The in climate resulted in some species hard to adapt to it. A.status B.consumption C.comparison D.variation 3.A creature called wild man attracted scientists'interest. A.mysterious B.infectious C.rewarding D.influential 4.Firefighters brought the fire successfully and prevented further spreading. A.on behalf of B.under control C.under construction D.under repair 5.According to official statistics,a number of bad behaviours urban development. A.appreciate B.commit C.restrict D.react 6.She was greatly surprised when her brother at the door,whom shc hadn't seen for years. A.popped up B.went up C.got rid of D.brought forth 7.The results are entirely with our earlier research A.artificial B.consistent C.decent D.humble 8. animals find towns and cities in their way. A.Wherever do they go B.Where they go C.No matter wherever they go D.wherever they go 9.It's really kind of you me out of trouble. A.help B.to help C.helping D.helped 第1顷共12页 10.To show our respect,we usually have to take our gloves off we are to shake hands with. A.whichever B.wheneverC.whoever D.wherever 11.I'm concerned about most is_ _we can collect a huge amount of money in such a short time. A.That;how B.What;if C.What;how D.As;whether 12.A survey carried out last year showed that 80%of the middle-aged in this city in favour of the proposal on health care reform. A.is B.are C.was D.were 13.Dr.Smith,together with his wife and daughters, visit Beijing this summer. A.is going to B.are going to C.was going to D.were going to 14.The most pleasant thing of the rainy season is one can be entirely free from dust. A.what B.that C.whether D.why 15.The news shocked the public, to great concern about students'safety at school. A.having led B.led C.leading D.to lead 第二节：完形填空（共20小题：每小题1.5分，满分30分） As I sat motionless on the steps of the pool,watching everyone else swim back and forth,I realized that I had spent most of my life watching others enjoy themselves.It was then that I(16)a little girl staring at me with a look of confusion.I smiled at her,hoping to (17 the ice by talking to her.Unfortunately,my (18) failed and she just kept on staring.My (19)increased as a little boy swam up to me and said,"I feel sorry for you. After the (20),a thought struck me,I had to change (21)the world viewed me.Because it was children who stared at me the most,I decided to write a children's book that taught them about(22)in a fun way.This is when KatGirl,a super hero in a (23)who belps children that are being bullied,came into my mind. I quickly (24)inside my apartment and began creating the story.As I wrote each word,I could (25)my future as a world-renowned author and public speaker.My excitement (26)like wildfire.Over the next two years,the story (27)many changes before it saw the world in the spring of 2011.My perseverance (28)paid off. One day I was invited to speak to the students at a neighboring school.I confidently wheeled into a classroom filled with students who (29)at me just like the little girl in the pool."How do you feel when you see me?"I asked them.The kids bravely (30)."I feel sorry for you." I opened my book and started reading.Immediately I noticed the children's stares turned to (31). How do you feel when you see me?"[asked again.Without (32)they replied,"You are so cool!Does your (33)fly too?"I just smiled,"No,not yet,but maybe some day."I knew in my heart that this was (34).The past two years had proven to me that with (35)anything is possible 16.A.suggested B.watched C.appreciated D.noticed 17.A.break B.forget C.remove D.deliver 18.A.project B.attempt C.anger D.advice 第2页共12页 19.A.relief B.curiosity C.awkwardness D.encouragement 20.A.competition B.encounter C.argument D.interview 21.A.what B.when C.how D.why 22.A.disabilities B.potentials C.paintings D.manners 23.A.pool B.wheelchair C.car D.spaceship 24.A.wheeled B.walked C.rushed D.raced 25.A.regard B.realize C.consider D.picture 26.A.folded B.spread C.recovered D.declined 27.A.turned down B.went through C.looked up D.got around 28.A.generally B.carefully C.eventually D.separately 29.A.called B.glimpsed C.laughed D.stared 30.A.responded B.greeted C.agreed D.continued 31.A.doubts B.jokes C.smiles D.tears 32.A.hesitation B.discussion C.intention D.imagination 33.A.body B.dream C.book D.chair 34.A.funny B.strange C.false D.true 35.A.generosity B.determination C.popularity D.harmony 第二部分：阅读理解共20小题：每小题2.5分，满分50分) g Here is a selection of books offering poems that range from being funny to being educational. Tiger,Tiger,Burning Bright! By Fiona Waters.Illustrated by Britta Teckentrup. Containing a different poem for each day of the year.this beautiful book brings together a various selection of poetry inspired by the animal kingdom.There are old and new poems from all over the world, by poets including Lewis Carroll and Grace Nichols-as well as lots of attractive artwork. Dear Ugly Sisters By Laura Mucha.Illustrated by Tania Rex. The first collection from exciting new poet Laura Mucha explores all sorts of topics,such as science, space and classic fairy tales.Other poems are inspired by events that affect us today,such as Dear Key Workers,which praises those who have helped us all during the coronavirus pandemic. The Book of Not Entirely Useful Advice ByA.F.Harrold.Illustrated by Mini Grey. 第3或共12页 There are all kinds of unexpected advice in this funny poetry book,whether you want to know about lively castles,breakfast or parrots.Bririging together lots of impressive poems by A.F.Harrold,it's also filled with fun illustrations by Mini Grey. On the Move By Michael Rosen.Illustrated by Quentin Blake. Two former Children's Laureates have joined forces to create this book.Michael Rosen has taken inspiration from his childhood and family history,as well as stories of migration from all over the world,to create poems that will leave you with lots to think about. 36.If you are passionate about animals,which book can you read? A.Tiger.Tiger,Burning Bright!B.Dear Ugly Sisters C.The Book of Not Entirely Useful Advice D.On the Move 37.What is the poem named Dear Key Workers about? A.Kindness during tough times.B.Unexpected advice. C.Difficulties of migration. D.Science and technology 38.Who is the author of the book with fun illustrations? A.Fiona Waters. B.Laura Mucha. C.A.F.Harrold. D.Michael Rosen. 39.What partly inspired Michael Rosen to write the book? A.The animal kingdom B.Stories of migration. C.Classic fairy tales. D.Lively castles. 40.What do the four books have in common? A.They are all poetry books. B.They all include various topics. C.They are all designed for children only.D.They are all inspired by the animal kingdom. B In many businesses,computers have largely replaced paperwork,because they are fast,flexible,and do not make mistakes.As one banker said,"Unlike humans,computers never have a bad day."And they are honest.Many banks advertise that their trades are "untouched by human hands"and therefore safe from human temptation (Obviously,computers have no reason to steal money.But they also have no conscience,and the growing number of computer crimes shows they can be used to steal. Computer criminals don't use guns.And even if they are caught,it is hard to punish them because there are no witnesses and often no evidence.A computer cannot remember who used it;it simply does what it is told.The head teller at a New York City bank used a computer to steal more than one and a half billion 第4页共12页 dollars in just four years.No one noticed this theft because he moved the money from one account to another. Each time a customer he had robbed questioned the balance in his account,the teller claimed a computer error,then replaced the missing money from someone else's account.This man was caught only because he was a gambler ()When the police broke up an illegal gambling operation,his name was in the records. Some employees'use the computers'power to get revenge (on employers they consider unfair. Recently,a large insurance company fired its computer tape librarian for reasons that involved her personal rather than her professional life.She was given thirty days'notice.In those thirty days,she erased (all the company's computerized records Most computer criminals have been minor employees.Now police wonder if this is "the tip of the iceberg".As one official says,"I have the feeling that there is more crime out there than we are catching. What we are seeing now is all so poorly done.I wonder what the real experts are doing-the ones who know how a computer works." 41.Which feature of computers makes computer theft possible? A.They are fast,flexible and accurate to run every program B.They usually function normally. C.They have no sense of what is right or wrong. D.They have no reason to steal money. 42.The author uses the case of the head teller to show_ A.how computer criminals do evil things B.how hard it is to find computer criminals C.computers lack conscience D.computer crime can involve a big sum of money 43.The head teller was found guilty of stealing_. A.after the police examined the illegal gambling operation documents B.when the police broke up the illegal gambling operation C.after he was questioned on the unusual balance of an account D.when he was caught transmitting money from onc account to another 44.Why did the computer tape librarian erase all the company's computerized records? A.She might think it was right to revenge any injustice in professional life. B.She might think the employer was wrong to fire her for personal problems. C.The company carelessly gave her enough time to do the erasing. D.The company always interfered with its cmployees'personal life. 第5页共12页 45.What can we infer from the last paragraph? A.Minor employees are supposed to be responsible for cconomic criminals. B.Of all crimes,computer theft is"the tip of the iccberg" C.Computer crimes are all poorly done. D.There are more.computer crimes committed by computer masters. C It's weird.Time feels faster the older we get.I can think back to an event three years ago,and it feels like yesterday.I still wear the same clothes.My haircut is the same.I live in the same place and eat the same food.Nothing much distinguishes that event from my present.Yet,for a child or teenager,three years can feel like a lifetime.Why does this happen? Children and teenagers experience significantly more change,more frequently,than adults.They grow taller,wear new clothes,switch schools,have different friends,and leamn new things in class.It is a world of transition and change.As adults,many of these factors level out and don't change at all. During adolescence,which researchers identify as between 10 and 25 years of age,the brain undergoes significant change.Laurence Steinberg,a heavy hitter in the adolescent research world,calls it a brain of "opportunity"because it is wide open to leaming.Imagine thousands of neurons all bumping up against each other,equally likely to activate each other.Adolescents are highly sensitive to their environment because their brains are open to anything and everything happening to them.They use this openness to learn bow the world works and how to function in it. When sex hormones come online,they enhance this leaming through myelination(髓第形成)，or the act of adding a fatty sheath on top of the highly active neurons to help them fire 100times faster than non-myelinated neurons.The brain takes what it leams and hardwires it.Stressful life events have a greater impact when they occur in adolescence versus middle childhood because the brain wires to teenage experiences. This is why we have a different experience of time.When we are teenagers,we are so open and receptive to the world.Our interactions with teachers,friends,material in class,parents,society,and more shape how we understand the world and how we operate in it.We experience big emotions,teaching us about relationships,responsibility,and everything else.It feels like so much happens every day because our brains are taking in so many things.As we get older,our brains aren't wired to take in as many things from the outside world,or to learn in the same way.Therefore,three years ago can feel like yesterday:not much has changed in our brains,our perception,or our lived experience. 46.What is the author's primary abservation about time in the first paragraph? 第6页共12页 A.Personal habits like clothing and diet never evolve after youth. B.Physical appcarance remains unchanged for years in adulthood. C.Adults'stable routines make time feel faster than in childhood. D.Childhood memories feel more distant than recent adult experiences. 47.According to the article,why do children and teenagers perceive time as passing more slowly than adults do? A.Because their brains develop slower,delaying time perception B.Because they lack the cognitive ability to track time accurately. C.Because their daily routines are less structured than those of adults. D.Because they experience more frequent and noticeable life changes. 48.Why do stressful events impact adolescents more? A.They lack emotional strength. B.Their brains are less developed. C.They experience fewer changes. D.Their brains bardwire experiences. 49.What can we infer about teenagers from the passage? A.They have less stress than adults B.They are more likely to adapt to change. C.Their brains are less active than those of adults D.They focus more on the present than the future. 50.What could be the best title for the passage? A.Why Timc Feels Faster as We Age. B.The Role of Change in Perception. C.How Teen Brains Shape Time Perception D.The Impact of Hormones on Time Experience. D Technology is never a neutral tool for achieving human ends.Technological innovations reshape people as they use these innovations to control their environment.Artificial intelligence,for example,is altering humanity. While the term AI brings to mind anxieties about killer robots or disastrous levels of unemployment, there are other,deeper consequcnces.As AI increasingly shapes the human experience,how does this change what it means to be human?Central to the problem is a person's capacity to make choices, 第7页共12页 particularly judgments that have moral consequences. Aristotle argued that the capacity for making practical judgments depends on regularly making them -on habit and practice.We see the emergence of machines as substitute judges in a variety of everyday contexts as a potential threat to people learning how to.cffectively exercise judgment themselves. In the workplace,managers routinely make decisions about who to hire or fire and which loan to approve,to name a few.These are areas where algorithmic principle is replacing human judgment, and so people who might have had the chance to develop practical judgment in these areas no longer will. Recommendation engines,which are increasingly popular media in people's consumption of culture, may serve to restrict choice and minimize luck.By presenting consumers with algorithmically selected choices of what to watch,read,stream and visit next,companies are replacing human taste with machine taste. As machine learning algorithms improve and as they train on greater data sets,larger parts of everyday life are likely to become completely predictable.The predictions are going to get better and better,and they will ultimately make common experiences more efficient and pleasant. But to the extent that unpredictability is part of how people understand themselves and part of what people like about themselves,humanity is in the process of losing something significant.As they become more and more predictable,the creatures living in the increasingly AI-mediated world will become less and less like us. 51.What do we leam about the deeper consequences of AI? A.It is causing disastrous levels of unemployment. B.It is doing physical harm to human operators. C.It is altering moral judgments. D.It is reshaping humanity. 52.What is the result of algorithmic principle replacing human judgment? A.People lose the chance to develop the ability to make practical judgments. B.People are prevented from participating in making major decisions in the workplace. C.Managers no longer have the chance to decide which loan to approve. D.Managers do not need to take the trouble to determine who to hire or fire. 53.What may result from increasing application of recommendation engines in our consumption of culture? A.Consumers will have much limited choice. B.Consumers will actually enjoy better luck. C.It will be easier to decide on what to enjoy. 第8页共12页 D.Humans will develop tastes similar to machines'. 54.What is likely to happen to larger parts of our daily life as machine leaming algorithms improve? A.They will tumn out to be more pleasant.B.They will repeat our past experiences. C.They can be completely foreseen.D.They may become better and better. 55.Why does the author say the creatures living in the more and more AI-mediated world will become increasingly unlike us? A.They will have lost the most significant element of being intelligent. B.They will no longer possess the human characteristic of being unpredictable. C.They will not be able to understand themselves as we can do today. D.They will be taken away what their ancestors were proud of about themselves. 第Ⅱ卷（非选择题共35分） 第三部分：写作（共两节，满分35分） 第一节：阅读表达（共5小题：每小题2分，满分10分） There are certain places on the planet where you can feel a connection with a loved one.That's the way my mother and I felt about Little Italy in New York City.The very streets brought us back to our roots that were planted before either of us was bom.It's the spot where,on a hot July night in 1906,my grandfather Tony was bom to immigrant (parents."I was bor on the comer of Mott Street,"he often said. Last year,he passed away.My mother was heartbroken.I tried my best to console her.I often accompanied her and took her out for dinner.One Sunday,I invited her to our favorite restaurant.I found a parking space on Mott Street.We only had to walk down the street to reach the restaurant which was around the comer.After walking for several minutes,we found the weather broke.)The wind from the storm whipped ()our faces.The storm came.There was no time to return to our car. “Come on,.”my mother said.And she grabbed my arm and pulled me into an old tenement(公a大楼) house,which was,surprisingly,unlocked.When we entered the living room,something struck my mother 第9页共12页 and she said,"Do you think this could be the building where Grandpa lived?"Shetook out a pen and wrote down the number. When we went back home,my mother took out an old box.She handed me a piece of paper which tumed out to be my grandfather's birth certificate.It was the same building.With tears in her eyes,she said, "Grandpa didn't leave us and he looked out for us." Was it a miracle or a coincidence?I didn't have a definite answer but I would rather believe it was a miracle.When Grandpa Tony was alive,he always did his best to protect us.Though he passed away,his spirit was still with us and performed the same duty.I believe that he is our guardian angel and his love will be always surrounding us. 56.Why did the author have a special connection with Little Italy in New York City?(no more than 10 words) 57.What does the underlined word in paragraph 2 probably mean?(1 word) 58.Why did the author and her mother enter the old tenement house?(no more than 8 words). 59.What did the author and her mother realize after they went home?(no more than 10words) 60.Do you have your own guardian angel?And who is he or she?Please explain.(no more than 25words) 第二节：书面表达（共1小题，满分25分】 61.想象一下你不得不在一个危险的地方生存。通过回答以下问题来规划你的故事。 1.危险的地方在哪里？ 2.危险是什么？ 3.你如何设法生存下来？ 4.你感觉如何？ 注意： (1)词数不少于100词： (2)可适当加入细节，使内容充实、行文连贯； (3)标 题已给出，不计入总词数。 第10页共12页 参考词汇：赛冷the cold,化雪为水melt snow.焦虑anxious.乐观optimistic Surviving the Danger 此 处 不 准 答 题 听力部分（共两节，满分30分） 第一节（供5小题：每小题2分，满分10分） 听下面五段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出一个最佳选项， 并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你将有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。 每段对话仅读一遮。 62.What will the weather be like tomorrow? A.Rainy B.Sunny C.Windy 63.What does the woman think of the fish? A.Quite good. B.Just so-so C.Terrible. 64 How long is Mark's business trip? A.Three weeks. B.Amonth. C.Five weeks. 65.Why didn't James call Lisa last night? A.He had an unexpected guest. B.He prepared his report till late. C.He dropped by Daniel's house. 66.What are the speakers mainly talking about? A.Their great dreams. B Agraduate in history C.An inspiring old woman. 第二节（共10小题：每小题2分，满分20分） 听下面几段材料。每段材料后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出一个最佳选项， 并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段材料前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题 第11页共12页 将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段材料读两遮。 听下面一段铰长对话，回答以下小题。 67.When will the man retutn the money to Maria? A.Next Monday. B.Next Tuesday C.Next Wednesday 68.What will the man do tonight? A.Study at home. B.Attend a party C.Buy a new phone. 69.What is the relationship between the speakers? A.Classmates B.Close friends. C.Brother and sister. 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。 70.Where does the conversation probably take place? A.In a museum. B.In a factory C.In a store 71.Why does Bill like to come here? A.To get relaxed. B.To buy the latest toys. C.To meet some friends. 72.What does Bill say about his childhood toys? A.He made his own toys. B.He didn't keep any of them. C He often played hands-on toys 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。 73.Who first developed plastic on a large scale? A.A Frenchman. B.An Englishman. C.An American 74.What was the advantage of plastic collars? A.They didn't wear out easily. B.They were easy to wash. C.They were comfortable. 75.Why were the plastic toys a good choice for some mothers? A.They were colorful. B.They were cheap. C.They were light in weight. 76.What does the speaker talk about at the end? A.The popularity of plastic. B.Different ways of using plastic. C.The harmful side of plastic. 第12页共12页