湖南衡阳市第八中学2025-2026学年高一下学期期中考试英语试题

**基本信息** 衡阳市八中高一下学期期中英语试卷以贴近生活、科技前沿及文化传承的素材为载体，全面考查语言能力、文化意识与思维品质，适配高一年级期中阶段性评估需求。 **题型特征** |题型|题量/分值|知识覆盖|命题特色| |----|-----------|----------|----------| |阅读第一节|15题/37.5分|实用APP介绍、全球英语水平报告、小行星探索、社交媒体现象|文本类型多样，含细节理解（如1题）、推理判断（如7题），C篇融入科技前沿，培养科学思维| |阅读第二节|5题/12.5分|中国诗词大赛文化传播|考查语篇衔接，选项设置关联文化传承，提升文化意识| |完形填空|15题/15分|困境中互助的记叙文|通过上下文语境考查词汇运用，渗透人文关怀，强化语言能力| |语法填空|10题/15分|古代贸易与探索史|涉及动词时态、连词等语法点，结合历史素材，兼顾语言知识与文化理解| |写作第二节|1题/25分|失物归还叙事续写|要求逻辑连贯与情感表达，考查叙事思维与语言输出能力，体现思维品质|

绝密★启用前 衡阳市八中高一下学期期中考试试题（2026.5） 英 语 注意事项： 1．答题前填写好自己的姓名、班级、考号等信息 2．请将答案正确填写在答题卡上 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 People are obsessed (对……着迷) with apps these days. Whether they’re good or bad, some apps can really make our life easier. There are some apps that can make your life easier and happier. Relax Melodies Stress is an inevitable (不可避免的) part of life. When you don’t know how to deal with stress in a healthy way, it can cause many health issues, including anxiety and depression. This app features relaxing sounds that help you fight stress and fall asleep faster. It can help your baby to sleep better as well. The sounds are perfect for yoga and massage sessions, too. If you are looking to improve your health, give this app a try. Fitbit The Fitbit app will help you live a healthier life and be more active throughout the day. It helps to watch your calorie intake, keep your weight under control, keep track of your daily activities, follow your training program, achieve your fitness and weight-loss goals, and many more, You can invite your family members, friends or coworkers to join and compete with them. The app is free. Pocket Expense Personal Finance Keep track of your spending, monitoring all your financial accounts, track all your bills，reach your savings goals and overall keep your budget under control with this app. The app helps you to see how much money is left. It can teach you to shop wisely and budget your money more efficiently. Groupon The Groupon app helps to get deals for 50% — 70% off the most popular stuff to see, do and purchase things in over 500 cities worldwide. You can save on almost everything while traveling around the world. This app is a must-have for wise buyers. 1．How can Relax Melodies benefit people? A．By helping people deal with hard tasks. B．By keeping track of people’s daily activities. C．By getting people to feel calm with sounds. D．By improving people’s level to appreciate music. 2．Which of the following apps can assist you if you wish to get things at a discount? A．Fitbit. B．Groupon. C．Relax Melodies. D．Pocket Expense Personal Finance. 3．Why do people choose the app Pocket Expense Personal Finance? A．It can make you relaxed. B．It can help you keep in shape. C．It can help you spend money more reasonably. D．It can tell you where to buy high-quality goods. B English is the most widely spoken language in the world. And of the roughly 1.5 billion speakers globally, the vast majority speak it as a second language. So where are the world’s best non-native English speakers? According to a new report by EF Education First, an international education company, Northern Europeans are the most fluent. Middle Easterners are the least proficient (精通的). The index (指数) is based on the results of a free online test taken by 2.3 million volunteers in 100 countries. Nearly six in ten of this year’s test-takers were female. Women have always performed better than men, but this year men closed the gap somewhat. In Europe, the powerhouse economies perform surprisingly badly: only Germany makes the top place of “very high proficiency” countries. France is next, while Spain and Italy are continuously falling behind. A study by a Spanish research institute reported the bad news: 60% of adults say they speak no English at all. The fact that Spanish is a global language in its own right (the language declares 400 million native speakers) is probably the cause. If you speak Danish, you need another language to take part in global culture; speaking French or Spanish (or Arabic) means hundreds of millions of people to talk to without English. Asia is the region of greatest diversity (多样性). Only Singapore makes the top level, but the Philippines, Malaysia, and India are not far behind. China is further back but still in the second level, a few places ahead of Japan. Struggling in the bottom places are a group of South-East and Central Asian countries like Cambodia and Kyrgyzstan. This relates with another factor: the company repeatedly finds that English skills are highly related with connections and openness to the rest of the world. 4．Which is the best title for the text? A．Where are the world’s most non-native English speakers? B．Where are the fewest non-native English speakers? C．Where are the world’s best non-native English speakers? D．Where are the last non-native English speakers? 5．What can we know about the online test? A．Half of this year’s test-takers were female. B．Nearly 1.38 million of this year’s test-takers were female. C．Women and men equally performed this year. D．The gap between female and male is getting close year by year. 6．Why 60% of Spanish adults say they speak no English at all? A．Spanish is a global language itself. B．400 million Spanish speak English. C．Spanish is easy to understand. D．English fails to attract them. 7．What can be inferred from the last paragraph? A．Asia is the region with the best non-native English speakers. B．China is the second place with the best non-native English speakers. C．Countries in South-East and Central Asian are less open in Asia. D．Countries in South-West and Central Asian line in the bottom places. C Asteroids (小行星) are believed to have formed early in our solar system’s history — about 4.5 billion years ago — when a cloud of gas and dust called the solar nebula (太阳星云) collapsed and formed our sun and the planets. By visiting these near Earth objects to study the material that came from the solar nebula, we can look for answers to some of humankind’s most arresting questions, such as:  How did the solar system form and where did the Earth’s water and other organic materials such as carbon come from? In addition to unlocking clues about our solar system, asteroids may provide clues about our Earth. By understanding more about asteroids, we may learn more about past Earth impacts and possibly find ways to reduce the threat of future impacts. If we don’t want to go the way of the dinosaurs someday, we need to protect ourselves against the threat of being hit by a big asteroid. According to NASA, typically about once every 10,000 years, a rock y or iron asteroid the size of a football field could crash into our planet and possibly cause tidal waves big enough to flood coastal areas. But what we really have to fear is asteroids about 328 feet across or bigger. Such an impact would cause a firestorm and fill the atmosphere with sun-blocking dust, which would wipe out forests and farm fields and starve the human and animal life that it didn’t immediately kill. That’s why it’s vital to develop a way to neutralize such a threat to Earth. NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, launched in late November 2021, was the first mission to demonstrate a technology called asteroid redirection by manmade impactor. A robotic spacecraft will be crashed into an asteroid named Didymos, in an effort to show that it’s possible to slightly change the path of an asteroid. That would enable NASA to redirect potential threats to miss Earth. 8．What is the first paragraph mainly about? A．How solar system came into being. B．How long asteroids have existed. C．Why asteroids are to be explored. D．When asteroids will impact Earth. 9．Why does the author mention dinosaurs in paragraph 2? A．To make the text more interesting. B．To introduce the topic of the text. C．To grab readers’ attention to asteroids. D．To show the disaster from an asteroid impact. 10．Which can best replace “neutralize” underlined in paragraph 4? A．strengthen B．avoid C．beautify D．realize 11．What can we know about asteroids? A．Dinosaurs may live on some of them. B．They were formed earlier than Earth. C．Exploring them helps us know Earth. D．NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test failed. D Journalist Rebecca Reid coined the term sadfishing in 2019, which means someone makes exaggerated claims online for the only purpose of gaining attention, likes, followers, or sympathy. Once the term became widely spread, people began accusing others of sadfishing when they made a vulnerable post that appeared inauthentic. In fact, some people—especially tweens and teens—are posting about very real emotional issues with genuine intentions. However, viewers may still accuse them of sadfishing. Therefore, it really counts for parents to know how to determine when their kids are dealing with a real mental health issue and when they are simply engaging in attention-seeking behavior. In fact, there is no way to know that for sure without talking to them about what is going on. So when it comes to your teen’s emotional social media posts, it’s important to talk to your kids about what they’re thinking and feeling. Ask them how they are doing and why they decided to post online about their feelings, and then truly listen to their response without judging them or trying to fix things. Remind them to think carefully about what information they put online because not everyone will respond in the way that they had hoped and they could end up feeling worse after posting. One of the biggest risks with being labeled sadfishing is the risk of being cyberbullied, especially when your teen’s posts are authentic. For instance, being made fun of or called names for feeling depressed or anxious can cause an already vulnerable tween or teen to sink further into depression, experience more anxiety. Additionally, being accused of sadfishing when they are being honest about their feelings also can cause them to assume no one takes them seriously and that no one cares about what they are going through. These types of feelings can feel disastrous to a young person. The survey also found that tweens and teens who make emotional posts are at risk of being targeted by online predators. They use the information shared as a way to make a connection and build trust and then later look for ways to exploit them. 12．What does the underlined word in Paragraph 2 mean? A．Sensible. B．Purposeful. C．Pitiful. D．Unreal. 13．Which shall parents do when kids post emotional issues according to the text? A．Ask them to delete such posts. B．Decide their intentions. C．Forbid them to post private issues. D．Track their posts online. 14．What risk a teen may face if his/her posts are labeled sadfishing? A．Being in a low mood. B．Being neglected by others. C．Being abused by netizens. D．Being connected with strangers. 15．What may be talked about in the following part of the text? A．What sadfishing is. B．How to spot sadfishing. C．What causes sadfishing. D．How to prevent sadfishing. 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。 Many Chinese people have awakened their interest in classical Chinese poetry recently thanks to a popular TV show that aims to “appreciate classical Chinese poetry, explore cultural genes and enjoy the beauty of life” by combining traditional literary form with light-hearted TV quizzes. The ten-episode “Chinese Poetry Competition”, since its broadcast has been praised for injecting vitality into TV programs with fantastic performances of contestants, impressive comments from judges as well as its innovative interactive mode. In the show, poems can be adapted into songs or depicted through artistic pictures. Any contestant who can memorize the largest number of poems may not necessarily be the final winner. 16 Wu Yishu, a 16-year-old student from the High School Attached to Fudan University in Shanghai, is the champion of this season. Her rich knowledge of classical poetry impressed everyone and she rose to become famous online. 17 She amazingly recited lines from the Classic of Poetry(《诗经》), the earliest collection of poems in China. “ 18 The power of poetry lies in shaping one’s view of life and developing one’s inner world.” said Li Bo, an expert guest at the Chinese Poetry Competition’s second season. When it comes to teaching people about poetry, Li Dingguang, the show’s academic advisor, suggested that teachers should explain more about the beauty of the poetry from both the aesthetic (审美的) and emotional sides, and guide students to lose themselves in the poems’ rhythmic and rhyming lines. “Although the proportion of ancient Chinese poems in the textbooks of primary and secondary schools has increased, many students still learn them for exams.” Li Dingguang said,  “Therefore, 19 ” A．In an earlier episode, Wu wowed the audience when performing in a section. B．Perhaps innovation and interaction matter the most. C．Fast reaction and usage of poems matter a lot more in the competition. D．What is the permanent appeal of poetry? E．it’s important to help students truly appreciate the artistry and fun of poetry. F．Learning poems isn’t about winning or losing. 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。 It was turning colder and colder. My husband had not found work and we were at a 20 as how to gather up enough money for a house rent. It looked so 21 . On the way to a church giving away free dinner to the homeless, our car 22 . My husband tried to fix it, but it didn’t 23 . I had cried for a couple of hours before I 24 joined my family sleeping in the car. The next morning, as my husband again tried to fix the car, a truck driver just came over to 25 . My husband swallowed his 26 and said right now we couldn’t 27 to fix it. The driver said he’d be back at 10 am the next day with the needed 28 for our car. Then, many people 29 by with food and blankets as well as some clothes. A man talked to my husband about a 30 he had heard about and told him to work there as soon as possible. That next day, the truck driver did come back with spark plugs (火花塞) and got our car 31 again. I don’t 32 to this day how so many people knew we were there. We just could not believe that they were all so 33 to help homeless strangers. Ever since, we hope to reach out and share what we have with others with love and 34 . 20．A．loss B．stage C．cost D．distance 21．A．speechless B．careless C．hopeless D．worthless 22．A．turned over B．broke down C．sped up D．came back 23．A．survive B．occur C．count D．work 24．A．quietly B．impatiently C．crazily D．sadly 25．A．help B．engage C．confirm D．direct 26．A．pride B．profit C．admiration D．respect 27．A．determine B．attempt C．afford D．adapt 28．A．licenses B．fuels C．parts D．repairmen 29．A．passed B．stopped C．stood D．went 30．A．car B．job C．garage D．driver 31．A．started B．sold C．washed D．painted 32．A．consider B．realize C．announce D．remember 33．A．intended B．expected C．eager D．willing 34．A．courage B．wisdom C．kindness D．pity 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。 Trade and 35 have often formed the foundation of mankind’s greatest achievements. To complete the great map of the world was a strong p 36 for the people of early civilisations. Marco Polo’s tales 37 European explorers to search for sea routes from west to east. H 38 merchants and explorers from the East set sail from east to west many years before Columbus first did. In a 39 times, silk from China found its way overland to India, the Middle East, and Rome, along what became known as the Silk Road. A trading route across the sea was also e 40 along the coasts of the Indian Ocean, centred around Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). Here, merchants from China and many other places met to n 41 trade deals, which also led to more a 42 each other’s cultures. Over the centuries, f 43 trading, allowed more exploration of the regions to the west of China, as r 44 in Du Huan’s Record of My Travels in the eighth century. 第四部分 写作(共两节，满分40分) 第一节(满分15分) 45．假定你是李华，你的英国笔友Peter在课堂小组讨论人工智能（AI）在学习中的应用这一话题时，因和同桌意见不合发生争执，特意发来邮件向你倾诉求助，请你给他回复一封邮件，内容包括： 1. 安慰对方； 2. 你的建议。 注意： 1. 写作词数应为80左右； 2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。 Dear Peter, ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Yours, Li Hua 第二节(满分25分) 46．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 was moving as fast as I could, stepping cautiously from rock to rock along the uneven jetty (栈桥). Far ahead, I could see the back of my brother’s sandy hair and the bright orange of his shorts. “Too slow, sister!” I heard Sam yell as he hopped with ease. “I’ll show him,” I thought, and attempted a double jump. What a mistake! My left foot came down hard between the edges of two gray rocks, scraping my ankle. “Ouch!” I yelled. I tried to wiggle (扭动) my foot out, but my shoe was stuck. I bent closer to the rock and that’s when I saw it: a shiny, square shaped stone the color of water, attached to a glittery gold chain. It was just lying there on the wet sand, and a few seconds later it was in my pocket. Sam squinted (眯着眼睛看) in the sun. Could he tell I was hiding the most perfect discovery of the summer? I kept turning the treasure around in my pocket, pushing each corner of the square stone into my finger. I was dizzy, but I didn’t want Sam to notice. He liked to tell everybody my business. “Ryan saved the mini cola bottle from the carnival. It happened to be perfect for sand art!” “Ryan wasted her allowance on salt and pepper shakers from the yard sale!” They were antique little pigs and cost only 50 cents. My family calls me their “little collector. Some mean kids at school call me “trash girl”. Sam and I walked along the main street, the small buildings giving us a break from the sun. Through the window of the candy shop, I could see tubes of colorful jelly beans. A sign on the window’s glass read LOST: Gold and blue necklace. Very special. If found, call Chrissy at 555-9924. Chrissy had drawn a crayon version of the necklace at the bottom of the poster. The necklace looked different from the one I clutched in my pocket, I decided. Rounder, bluer. The poster appeared old and weathered. It must have been put up months ago. We continued to walk, and I noticed four more posters. Someone must have returned that necklace by now, I thought. 注意： 1. 续写词数应为150个左右； 2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。 Once home, I placed the necklace in my special spot for special things, lost in thought. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Fifteen minutes later, I was sitting across from Chrissy in the candy shop. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 试卷第1页，共3页 5月考试答案 英 语 题号 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 答案 C B C C B A C C D B 题号 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 答案 C D B C D C A F E A 题号 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 答案 C B D D A A C C B B 题号 31 32 33 34 答案 A B D C 20．A 21．C 22．B 23．D 24．D 25．A 26．A 27．C 28．C 29．B 30．B 31．A 32．B 33．D 34．C 35．curiosity 36．passion 37．inspired 38．However 39．ancient 40．extended 41．negotiate 42．awareness 43．further 44．recorded 45．One possible version: Dear Peter, I’m sorry to hear that you are in disagreement with your deskmate. It’s common to have different ideas in group discussions, so don’t take it too seriously. Personally, I think you can try some useful ways to solve this problem. First, calm yourself down and learn to respect others’ opinions. Everyone has their own thoughts about AI use in study. Second, talk with him politely later and express your ideas softly. What’s more, discussions aim to share views rather than win an argument. I hope you can cheer up soon and get on well with him again. Looking forward to your reply. Yours, Li Hua 46． Once home, I placed the necklace in my special spot for special things, lost in thought. My mind was a whirlwind of conflicting emotions. The necklace, with its shimmering stone and golden chain, was undeniably beautiful, but the guilt of keeping something that wasn’t mine weighed heavily on me. I imagined Chrissy’s disappointment and the sadness she must have felt when she lost it. I knew I had to do the right thing, even if it meant parting with my newfound treasure. With a deep breath, I decided to return the necklace to its rightful owner. Fifteen minutes later, I was sitting across from Chrissy in the candy shop. My heart was pounding as I carefully pulled the necklace out of my pocket and placed it on the table between us. “I think this might be yours,” I said softly, my voice trembling slightly. Chrissy’s eyes filled with tears of joy as she recognized her lost necklace. She thanked me repeatedly, her gratitude overwhelming. As we talked, I realized that returning the necklace not only made Chrissy happy but also gave me a sense of peace and pride. I had done the right thing, and that was more valuable than any treasure I could have kept. 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $