北京市育才学校2025-2026学年度第二学期5月仿真模拟预测英语试题

北京市育才学校2025~2026学年度第二学期5月仿真试题 高三英语 2026.5 第一部分知识运用（共两节，30分） 第一节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，共15分） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在 答题卡上将该项涂黑。 I was in Chicago for a job training when I knew a nearby theatre was releasing a film about saving dogs. However,none of my co-workers could1_ time for me.I got cold feet for anxiety about exploring the streets by myself at night alone. But in my hotel room I felt 2 and bored.The theatre was only about five blocks away from the hotel.How could I get lost?Hence,I decided to3 it.I gathered my room key and set off.I managed to find the street of the theatre but stopped in shock.The street was full of bikers -lots of very big,4 bikers. Now I was a woman all alone at night.Warning bells began to sound and my heart5 into my throat.Was I at the right theatre?Had I misread the date of the event? I finally decided that I would be safer inside the theatre.I hurried into the theatre.As I sat there, heart racing,6 the film,I muttered a prayer (to 7 my anxieties.The film 8 shortly afterwards.From start to finish,the story was incredibly touching,there were even moments when I couldn't hold back my tears.When the credits rolled and the film came to an end,I understood the presence of the bikers after a conversation with the man sitting beside me. Being part of an animal rescue group,they had escorted (dogs from New Jersey to Chicago.At that moment,I was struck by the bond that had drawn so many originally 9 folks to the same spot.I stayed till the very end and made it to my hotel without any incident,overjoyed that I broke out of the 10 I used to set for myself and ventured into the unknown.To my amazement,the reward was one of the best nights ofmy life. 1.A.occupy B.squeeze C.search D.appoint 2.A.graceless B.careless C.restless D.tireless 3.A.brave B.desert C.forget D.attend 4.A.well-behaved B.hard-working C.casually-dressed D.tough-looking 5.A.beat B.sank C.stopped D.jumped 6.A.accomplishing B.watching C.anticipating D.recalling 7.A.contain B.comfort C.strengthen D.tighten 8.A.picked up B.kicked off C.brought about D.took away 9.A.natural B.cooperative C.distinct D.similar 10.A.definition B.imagination C.circulation D.boundary 1/8 第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，共15分） 阅读下面短文，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。 Y Yang Hao,a 32-year-old doctoral student,completed a 134-day solo journey across China without any digital device.Merely 11 (equip)with printed maps and using only cash,he visited 68 locations with cameras,proving that deep concentration is possible without constant connectivity.Upon returning home,Yang surprisingly realized that all unread messages had vanished after 72 hours--a discovery that left him with fleeting regret but no true sense of 12 (lose). Now preparing a book and a documentary about his experience,he aims to share 13 he has learned about seeing the world differently. B China has begun constructing a hydropower project located in the lower reaches ofthe YarlungZangbo River.The project,mainly 14 (consist)of five cascade (stations,will boost clean energy while supporting Xizang's development.The project,which 15 (approve) in December 2023 and carried out in July 2025,is crucial for China's carbon neutrality goals.By developing hydropower,it will create a clean energy base combining hydro,wind,and solar power.It is reported that the project will primanily deliver power to other provinces,while also addressing local demand 16 electiicity in Xizang. AI with unpredictable possibilities 17 (reshape)almost every aspect of our lives at this very moment.Yet globally,less than a quarter of AI professionals are women.In fact,the world's first computer programmer was a woman,18 parents encouraged her to pursue her dream in the field.Eventually,Ada Lovelace put forward an idea that sparked the revolution from calculation to computation.Ada Lovelace Day is held every year in October and 19 (celebrate) overlooked achievements of women in STEM,reminding us that females also have the great potential 20 (unlock)the scientific world. 第二部分阅读理解（共两节，38分） 第一节（共14小题；每小题2分，共28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，并在答题卡上将 该项涂黑。 A With the anival of digital technology,digital libraries now have a wealth of free resources, making information easily accessible at no cost.Knowing where to search helps you to uncover a diverse arrangement of free e-books,audio-books and other online materials Internet Archive The Internet Archive,possibly the largest digital library,houses a treasure of over 36 million e books,alongside 778 billion web pages and millions of videos,concerts,audio files and software programs.Acting as a digital time machine,it preserves unique items from the1990s and earlier, E-books are carefully organized by category,collection,author,topic,or year.Users can rate and 2/8 review books and even upload their own media after registration. Open Library Sign up for Open Library to borrow and read millions of free e-books.Browse multiple genres(),filter results by subject or author,and search for specific titles.You can also preview and "borrow"random e-books.Registered users can create custom reading lists and add new books.The platform offers both e-books and audio-books,satisfying all preferences. Smashwords Unlike other digital libraries featuring timeless classics,Smashwords stands out by highlighting independent authors and new releases.You can read e-books online or download them in PDF and EPUB.Personalize your search by selecting free books and choosing lengths from under 20,000 to over 100,000 words. ManyBooks Manybooks holds over 50,000 e-books across diversities of genres and categories.You can narrow down your searches by genre,language and rating.Each e book page indicates its availability for free download or online reading.Detailed descriptions,author information and summaries help you make sound selections.Each e-book comes with an extensive description of the story and the author,as well as a book summary to understand the book you are considering 21.Which library allows readers to upload their own digital materials? A.Open Library. B.Smashwords. C.ManyBooks D.Internet Archive. 22.Both Open Library and ManyBooks offer A.free software programs B.multiple e-book genres C.individualized reading lists D.detailed authors'information 23.Where is the passage most likely chosen from? A.A guide on how to borrow e-books B.An introduction of the benefits of digital libraries. C.A review of various digital platforms for free resources. D.An instruction on how to upload contents to online libraries B Braving the elements On Dec.26,Gelinne,60,was looking out the back windows of his home at the frozen lake.Then an airplane came into his sight.Gelinne looked up just in time to see that small air plane a few hundred yards away,losing control. As the plane disappeared behind the trees,Gelinne,a former Navy officer,realized it was going to land in the lake.He flashed on a moment from more than 20 years earlier:Gelinne was at work in a bank.When a fire alarm rang,he escaped from the chaos but has always wondered if he could have stayed inside and helped. On this day,Gelinne didn't hesitate.He ran down to the waterfront.The plane had skidded to a stop on the broad,frozen lake,far from shore.It was now sinking.The pilot was standing on the wing.Gelinne knew from his Navy training that even a few minutes in the icy water could kill the pilot. Gelinne tested the ice with his foot and decided not to take any chances walking on it.So he pulled a boat out from under his back deck. 3/8 Then he set off,pushing his boat across the ice.It was tough work.When Gelinne reached the plane,it had broken through the ice and sunk;only its tail was visible.The pilot was standing on a tail wing,submerged up to his chest,surrounded by open water.Gelinne pushed his boat off the ice and into the water,paddling (toward the pilot. Gelinne focused on keeping the pilot calm,joking,"Just hang on to the boat as if you were hugging your wife."The pilot grabbed the boat's bow,but Gelinne knew he had to get the pilot out of the water and up onto the shelf of unbroken ice behind him before the man lost too much body heat. By now a police officer had anived and radioed for help.A lifeboat appeared,breaking through ice as it arrived.It picked up the pilot and rushed him to safety.Later the boat returned to help Gelinne,now extremely tired,to shore. "I'm 60 years old,"Gelinne says."There was no way I could get him to shore."Still,he was satisfied he'd gone the right way that day. 24.Why did Gelinne run outside without hesitation? A.He had rescucing experience B.He wanted to offer help in time. C.He needed more time to prepare. D.He was amazed at what had happened. 25.How did Gelinne help the pilot? A.He made a call to the police. B.He got the pilot out of the water. C.He asked the pilot to grasp the bow. D.He picked up the pilot onto the shore. 26.What Gelinne did in the rescue proved him to be A.generous B.brave C.curious D.strict 27.What can Gelinne probably learn from the rescue? A.Think twice before action. B.One good turn deserves another. C.It's never too late to make things right. D.One should always be ready to seize chances. A hundred years ago,scientists were sure of many truths.The greatest experts were certain that the universe had always existed and was always the size it is now.Biochemists believed that,outside the nucleus,the interior of a human cell contained little more than busy enzymes-a "biochemical bog"that carried out all the reactions that are essential to life.These sureties were all wrong.Yet scientists reacted to challenges to their accepted truths with dismissal and skepticism. I began to see how common this knee-jerk reaction was as I researched my book on how scientists reconstructed the journey of our body's atoms from the big bang to now.So many theories that we now consider great breakthroughs were at first waved off,like annoying gnats.Why?We all know that some researchers are territorial,or fear a new theory will undercut their work.But why did entire communities of scientists reject groundbreaking ideas-even those backed by sound evidence? Puzzled,I tried to categorize the reasons why and found six cognitive biases that arose so often I gave them nicknames.For instance,the "You Look For and See the Evidence That Matches Your Existing Theory"bias impeded our understanding of diseases like scurvy(坏血病)and beriberi(脚气 )which were killing millions.Scientists tried to explain these illnesses with the ancient Greek 4/8 theory of humors,then germ theory,before arriving at the concept of vitamin deficiency.How could so many brilliant scientists have been so ignorant?If you look a little deeper,you will find that none of us is immune.A Microsoft executive once said:"There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get market share.When covid-19 struck,we all thought we would be back at work in just a few weeks. We will never be entirely rid of biases.Biases are part of the human condition,and scientists need to be aware their brains are full of them.As those I profiled discovered,our cells are crammed, not just with enzymes,but with a mind-boggling collection of molecular machines.DNA,not protein, is the molecule responsible for heredity.And the universe was once contained in a tiny point of space and time. All kinds of things are possible that we would never expect.That is the beauty of life.The history of scientific innovation encourages us to examine evidence with an open mind and try to see the world not as we would like it to be,but-to the extent that we can-as it truly is.Understanding this helps us to appreciate the amazing world we live in. 28.What does the example of biochemists in paragraph 1 imply? A.To stress the importance of innovation. B.To indicate the advancement of biochemistry. C.To emphasize the harm of fake science. D.To reveal the hardwired problem of scientists. 29.What does the writer stress on bias? A.It uniquely affects researchers B.It's unavoidable in humans. C.It fades with rich experience D.It blocks all scientific studies 30.What's implied about human cognition? A.Minds have internal limitations. B.People tend to judge objectively. C.Biases totally ruin creativity. D.Old views never get replaced. 31.Which of the following might be the best title of the passage? A.Embrace the complexity of our life. B.Solid evidence is a must for new findings. C.Allow scientists to make mistakes. D.Ease the prejudice in sciences research. D More than a billion years ago a hungry cell devoured(吞噬)a tiny blue-green algae(绿藻).But instead of the former simply digesting the latter,the duo struck a remarkable evolutionary deal.Now scientists are trying to engineer that miracle in a laboratory. In a recent experiment reported in the Proceedings of the Japan Academy,researchers transplanted that algae's photosynthesizing descendants,plant organelles called chloroplasts )into hamster cells-where they converted light into energy,staying active for at least two days. Scientists had previously tried transferring plant chloroplasts into fungi cells,but the cells' 5/8 cleanup squad destroyed foreign organelles within hours.For their attempt,Matsunaga's group harvested extra-hardy chloroplasts from a red algae that thrives in acidic volcanic hot springs and housed them in lab-cultured hamster ovary cells. The team isolated the chloroplasts from algal cells using a centrifuge (and gentle stining.Instead of then piercing the host cells'membranes,as in earlier work,the researchers adjusted the culture medium's composition so it coaxed the animal cells into engulfing the chloroplasts like amoebas do,Matsunaga says,"mistaking them for nutrients." The transplanted chloroplasts maintained their structure and showed successful electron transport,a crucial step in processing light,for two days before deteriorating.Previous attempts at transplanting a chloroplast into a foreign cell had worked for just a few hours."I was impressed that they were able to get that much mileage out of it,"says cell biologist Jef D.Boeke of the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Challenges remain:Chloroplasts need a steady supply of proteins from the cell."Animal cells, however,don't have the necessary genes to make and transport these proteins,so chloroplasts would break down quickly without them,"says Werner Kuhlbrandt,a structural biologist at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics in Frankfurt.Like Boeke,he was not involved in the new study.Next, Matsunaga's team plans to try inserting photosynthesis-maintaining genes into animal cells,aiming to make them more compatible with the transplanted chloroplasts. These types of transplants could someday help scientists engineer living materials,Boeke says, such as photosynthesizing fungi or bacteria that might be used on rooftops to soak up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere,or lab organoids that can grow faster using a chloroplast's extra oxygen Solar-powered humans,of course,remain pure fantasy,Matsunaga says:"They would need a tennis court's worth of surface area covered with chloroplasts. 32.What does the new method avoid doing? A.Piercing host cell membranes directly B.Using centrifuge to isolate chloroplasts. C.Harvesting chloroplasts from hot springs. D.Culturing hamster cells in a lab. 33.What does the underlined word "deteriorating"probably mean? A.thrive B.t女ransform C.collapse D.reproduce 34.How does Matsunaga's words in the last paragraph feel? A.Humorous but objective B.Truthful and knowledgeable. C.Ironic but attractive D.Enthusiastic and hopeful. 第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，共10分） 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，并在答题卡上将该项 涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。 Music has long been considered to be an enjoyable pastime for many people.35 The mental health benefits from music can't be argued.Music could also be helping you with many other health problems behind the scenes. 36 However,for the same reason,music can be very beneficial if one is in pain.By distracting (the mind from the pain,music,people say,can lower stress and anxiety levels. 6/8 This,of course,can lead to less pain. Many people enjoy relaxing music in the evening prior to going to bed.37 While the validity of the idea is still being assessed,the lowered stress can even be tied back to blood pressure. Similarly,according to researchers,listening to just 30 minutes of soft music every day may help with healthy blood sugar levels,through the lowering of stress and anxiety. When it comes to heart health,there is speculation (that it's not the style of music,but rather the tempo that makes it so good for your heart health.In one European study,participants listened to music as the researchers monitored their heart rates and blood pressure.38 On the other hand,when the music slowed,the participants'stress and anxiety levels became lower and the effects on heart rates appeared to follow suit. 39 But there is a whole range of other health issues that turning up the radio could be beneficial for,which is what makes music so valuable. A.This feeling can also result in many other health problems. B.Some experts say that music can be harmful if it is too loud. C.This idea is a little off-the-wall but still has scientific backing D.They say it can play a big role in calming the brain enough to sleep E.The implications of music on overall well-being are really impressive. F.It is also highly popular due to the individualized effects on stress and anxiety. G.Interestingly,the more cheerful the music was,the faster their heart rates were. 第三部分书面表达（共两节，32分） 第一节（共4小题；第40、41题各2分，第42题3分，第43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。请在答题卡指定区域作答。 Recent research suggests that if an argument gets resolved,the emotional response tied to it is significantly reduced or almost completely erased.Thus,it may be worth bringing up issues with your friends,family members,or classmates rather than holding them back. There is a difference between arguing and fighting.Arguing is that you and your opponent present your concerns and discuss the feelings and issues related to those concerns.You can engage in an argument respectfully without stining up (anger.Fighting,however,usually involves personal attacks,raising of voices,and storming out.Discussing your issues and resolving them instead of stuffing them down can improve your emotional health.In a study,2.000 people were asked to record their feelings and experiences for eight days in a row.When people had an argument that they considered resolved,.they had half the reactivity(情绪反应)of those who avoided an argument.Reactivity is an increase in negative emotions or a decrease in positive emotions.In other words,resolving an argument cuts your negative feelings by half.One day later,people who had a resolved argument reported no increase of negative emotions compared with those who avoided an argument.This means that resolving an argument can feel like you have reached a state of resolution and you are less likely to be annoyed. Moreover,the older you are,the more likely you will come to a resolution after an argument. This may be because more life experience usually leads to more defined priorities.You are more likely to distinguish between what matters and what does not. 7/8 ◆ It is easier to avoid a discussion,but risking talking about it may eventually lead to a better outcome 40.According to this passage,what is arguing? 41.Why is it that"the older you are,the more likely you will come to a resolution after an argument"? 42.Please decide which part is false in the following statement,then underline it and explain why Resolving arguments can improve your emotional health,because it increases your reactivity and reduces the chance ofyou getting angry. 43.In addition to improving emotional health,what do you think are some other benefits of resolving an argument?(In about 40 words) 第二节(20分) 44.假设你是红星中学高三学生李华，从好友英国交换生Jm的邮件中得知，他在选择大学 专业上与父母发生分歧。请你给Jim回复一封邮件，内容包括： 1.分析存在问题： 2.提出解决建议。 注意：1.词数100左右： 2.开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数 Dear Jim, Yours, Li Hua 8/8 北京市育才学校20252026学年度第二学期5月仿真试题 高三英语参考答案 第一部分知识运用（共两节，30分） 第一节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，共15分） 1.B2.C 3.A 4.D 5.D 6.c 7.A 8.B 9.C 10.D 2.第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，共15分） 11.equipped 12.loss 13.what 14.consisting 15.was approved 16.for 17.is reshaping 18.whose 19.celebrates 20.to unblock 第二部分阅读理解（共两节，38分） 第一节（共14小题；每小题2分，共28分) 21.D22.B23.C24.B25.C26.B27.C 28.D29.B30.A31.D32.A33.C34.A 第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，共10分） 35.F36.B37.D38.G39.E 第三部分书面表达（共两节，32分） 第一节（共4小题：第40、41题各2分，第42题3分，第43题5分，共12分) 40.Arguing is discussing your worries,related feelings and problems with the other party. 41.It is because more life experience may help people better identify priorities in life. 42.Resolving arguments can improve your emotional health,beccuse it increases your reactivity and reduces the chance ofyou getting angry. Resolving arguments helps to decrease your reactivity. 43.略 第二节(20分) Dear Jim, I'm sorry to hear you're having a disagreement with your parents about choosing a university major.Your parents may care more about the future job prospects of the major,while you might prioritize your own interest and passion.Their love and your pursuit of dreams are both reasonable,so the key is to bridge the gap between you two. Here are some suggestions for you.First,calm down and have a sincere talk with them, listening to their worries patiently.Then,explain your ideas clearly,telling them how you plan to develop in the future.I believe your parents will understand you if you communicate well. Hope things go well for you soon. Yours, Li Hua