北京市第二十中学2025-2026学年第二学期期末高一英语试题

北京市第二十中学2025一2026学年第二学期期末考试试卷 高一启承 英语 (时间：90分钟 满分：100分为必修二、三模块结业考试) 命题人：孙军伟 审题人：张兰英 班级 姓名 第一部分：知识运用（共两节，30分) 第一节完形填空（共10小题：每小题1.5分，共15分） 阅读下面短文，遂握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 When Officer Eric Robbins responded to a 911 call,he didn't know he'd be facing his worst fear. Neighbours reported a five-year-old boy wandering on the roof of a nearby house.The child didn't seem frightened of the 30-foot drop awaiting him.Robbins could feel it though,and he knew he had to take action.However,there was one1:he was deathly afraid of heights. Choosing2 over fear,Robbins charged up the stairs and out of the open window.Quickly yet carefully,he just 3 the kid and started trying to map out how he could 4 grab the kid without shocking him and not fall off the roof."I don't think he knew I was there,"Robbins told the local news."It felt like forever because I'm scared of heights."Amazingly,he5 the boy and pulled him away from the edge,completing the rooftop rescue without injury to either of them. The parents were 6 that their son was back inside safe.They were grateful to all the officers of the police department,but especially Robbins."As a parent,I cannot express how much it means to know there are officers committed to 7 and serving with such sympathy,"wrote the parents in a thank-you letter.Robbins was 8 by the parents'gratitude and revealed that it could have been his kid and someone would do the same. Many would believe what Robbins did was brave even if he wasn't afraid of heights,but the knowledge of his fear made his heroic behaviour even more 9.This act of heroism is more than a rescue;:it's a reminder of the human 10_behind the badge(警徽)， 1.A.excuse B.mistake C.problem D.accident 2.A.duty B.trust C.justice D.security 3.A.ran into B.picked up C.locked onto D.knocked over 4.A.politely B.safely C.warmly D.casually 第1 5.A.hit B.tied C.lowered D.reached 6.A.proud B.hopeful C.surprised D.relieved 7.A.cooperating B.protecting C.volunteering D.instructing 8.A.inspired B.humbled C.comforted D.challenged 9.A.complex B.common C.impressive D.mysterious 10.A.courage B.honesty C.patience D.confidence 第二节语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，共15分） A Heroes are often imagined as people with superpowers or grand achievements.Yet real heroism often comes from ordinary people.They don't wear capes or leap over tall buildings;instead,they have a11(last)impact through courage,kindness and selflessness.Ordinary heroes are people such as neighbours,workers and friends 12 choose to help others even when it's not easy.13(eventual), these ordinary heroes remind us that choosing to help,to speak up or simply to care can make a difference. B Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer.He is regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of music.In his twenties,he had been very famous for his skills 14 the piano,but then he began to lose his hearing.Beethoven thought about giving up,but in the end he continued to write music.15(inspire)by his struggles with deafness,the composer produced some amazing pieces, including nine symphonies,five piano pieces,and an opera!He 16(proceed)with the composition until his death in 1827,writing more than 130 musical works. c The oasis (next to the town of Mao,Chad,17(allow)farmers to grow a few crops in the small fields around it.But rising temperatures due to climate change are a growing threat to oases such as this,and to the people and wildlife that depend on them.Fortunately,the Great Green Wall initiative 18 (launch)to try to prevent the desertification.Although solar-powered water pumps have been installed to help farmers irrigate crops,the initiative is controversial,with many questioning 19 it will work.And it is far from clear that oases like these will remain oases for much 20 (long). 共5页 第二部分：阅读理解（共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，并在答题纸上涂黑。 A Residents in a care home in England have been knitting (tiny sweaters to help penguins rescued from oil spills(when oil leaks into the sea from ships). Penguins in danger Penguins produce a special liquid that makes their feathers waterproof.They smooth it over their feathers with their beaks(),keeping them dry and warm in the water.However,when oil sticks to their feathers,it ruins their waterproofing.This leaves the birds cold and unable to swim or hunt for food.Worse still,they may take in the oil,which can make them sick and can even kill them. Grannies to the rescue To clean them up,rescuers wash oiled birds several times with dishwashing liquid.However,when the penguins arrive they are often too weak for this to happen straight away-they have to build up enough energy to be washed.The rescuers put special sweaters onto the birds.The pullovers keep the penguins warm and stop them from using their beaks to clean feathers,so they don't get sick from taking in oil. Knitting for nature People from around the world have been knitting sweaters for penguins for over 20 years.In 2001,438 penguins in Australia were affected by an oil spill,and 96%of them were saved thanks to the knitted sweaters.The Penguin Foundation charity hopes more and more people can contribute their knitting skills to provide life-saving sweaters for little penguins. Become a knitting hero Do you have a talented family member who loves knitting,or do you know how to knit yourself?Why not make a sweater to send to the Penguin Foundation?The sweaters need to be 100%wool,because pure wool is perfect for keeping penguins warm,while also being breathable.For more information and the knitting pattern,please click here. 21.If oil sticks to their feathers,penguins will A.become cold and wet B.die from extreme fear C.produce a special liquid 第2页 D.stay far away from water 22.What are the sweaters used to do? A.Stop penguins from using beaks. B.Protect penguins from being oiled. C.Prevent penguins from being washed. D.Help penguins recover from weakness. 23.Which is a requirement for becoming a knitting hero? A.Creating a knitting pattern. B.Donating to the Foundation. C.Knitting a pure wool sweater. D.Learning knitting skills online. B As I stepped out of the DMV()with my license and my head held high,I thought of all the new memories I could create.The places I could drive to were limitless.As I started driving,however,I realized that it wasn't the GPS saying,"You have reached your destination,"that gave me a rush in my heart.The journey became more electrifying as I sang along to my "Driving Playlist". I never understood when my mom asked me,"Do you want to go out for a drive,man?"There was nowhere to go-I didn't have a class or a club that we would be driving to.It would be 5:00 pm on a random Tuesday when she posed the question.I declined the offer.For a long time,I approached my creative aspirations (the same way I viewed those drives-only with a purpose when given a specific destination. I only picked up a paintbrush when school required it for a project.I only took up a book when I had a reading assignment.I knew I needed to change the belief that because there wasn't a grade attached to my passion,that was meaningless.In an art project,a good friend of mine offered a solution that erased my desire for perfection:she told me to just draw aimlessly on paper.Without an end product in mind,I was able to construct a masterpiece that I could be proud of without having to receive an"A+"on it. In the past,I was driven by the fear of missing out(FOMO).Instead of enjoying moments with my friends,I attended every single academic event because I worried about the consequences if I missed one. At the start of my senior year,I feared missing out on the"high school experience"that was portrayed( in the movies I watched growing up.Yet,I am now defining my own version of that experience.It is 共5页 worthwhile to pursue simple passions in life.There doesn't need to be a grand reason for venturing out of the house;driving just for the sake of driving is my favourite pastime. The day I got my license,I no longer grabbed the wheel with hesitation;I was in control of it as I uncovered a new world of possibilities. 24.How did the author feel when he first got his driver's license. A.Rewarded. B.Heartened. C.Honoured. D.Relieved. 25.What changed the author's perspective on school life? A.His desire to receive an"A+". B.Moments shared with his friends C.A product to create a masterpiece. D.A friend's suggestion to draw aimlessly. 26.The author's previous FOMO was related to A.the movies on high school life B.a grand reason for driving around C.a grade attached to academic events D.the pressure of study in high school 27.What can we learn from this passage? A.Trends help you find your true passion. B.A journey holds more than the destination. C.A well-planned path finally leads to success. D.Childhood shows the man,as morning shows the day. C There's a relatively new word doing the rounds in sustainability research:defossilization.Beyond expert circles,it isn't necessarily obvious that eliminating fossil (fuels does not mean phasing out carbon. Defossilization means finding sustainable ways to make carbon-based chemicals.This carbon cannot come from the usual sources,such as coal,natural gas and oil.Alternative sources of carbon include the atmosphere and plants,as well as carbon in existing biological or industrial waste,such as used plastics or agricultural waste.In some cases,these chemicals will eventually return CO2 to the atmosphere through burning or biodegradation.In principle,this will occur as part of a circular process,rather than one that has added greenhouse gases. The extraction (of carbon from tough plant matter in crop waste is an alternative with potential 第3 that remains mostly unused.One major advantage is the fact that it can be produced without the use of extra land.But it is expensive to extract,and production timelines are long,both of which prevent its large-scale application. Other potential sources of waste carbon include city and industrial waste,with used plastic among this. Current recycling methods break waste plastics into small pieces through melting,and then form small balls that can be used to make new products.For higher recycling rates to be achieved,chemical recycling methods will need to be further developed and scaled up. CO2 captured from the air offers one of the largest potential channels for defossilization.The global chemicals industry could obtain one-third of its carbon needs from this source by 2050.Although the atmosphere holds nearly 900 billion tons of carbon (almost twice the amount in vegetation),estimates of CO2's future contribution vary widely.Some say CO2 will become the main material for chemicals,whereas others say its contribution will be insignificant. To make useful carbon-based molecules ()COz must first be transformed into other molecules. This requires a considerable amount of renewable energy because COz is highly stable.Capturing atmospheric CO2 is difficult and expensive,so some countries have not prioritized the technology-but this must change and needs a renewed focus on defossilization. 28.What does the phrase"phasing out"underlined in Paragraph 1 probably mean? A.Making use of. B.Getting rid of. C.Running out of. D.Taking the place of. 29.Which of the following is a way to achieve defossilization? A.Expanding farmland for carbon extraction. B.Producing carbon with traditional methods. C.Processing plastic waste to capture carbon. D.Extracting carbon by transforming carbon molecules. 30.What is the main purpose of this passage? A.To make an appeal. B.To offer a comparison. C.To challenge a concept. D.To present a phenomenon. 共5页 D Years after my art history class,I am insufferable at museums."That's definitely a Matisse,"I say. "You can tell because of the brushwork and the use of colour."Sometimes it is not a Matisse but oftentimes it is. It is unsettling to learn,then,that for all of my carefully won art appreciation,I am in danger of being surpassed by an insect.In a recent study,honeybees-whose brains are the size of grass seeds-were shown Picassos and Monets paired side by side.Below the prints were two small containers,one containing sugar water and the other nothing at all. Which to enter?Bees couldn't see or smell whether a given container held the treat until they'd already flown inside it.But they could let the masterpieces guide them:for some bees,the reward was always under the Picasso,while for the rest it was under the Monet.Over the course of many trials,the bees learned to fly straight for the correct container.Indeed,they even performed slightly better than chance when faced with pairs of paintings they'd never seen before.The bees had learned to discriminate,however modestly, between the two artists'styles. To be sure,humans still have the edge.Last year a team of researchers led by Liane Gabora found that art students were perfectly capable of identifying which well-known artist was behind which unknown painting.Creative writing students were similarly excellent at spotting little-read passages by Hemingway or Dickens-a skill I can only assume no honeybee has yet demonstrated. Even more impressively,though,the students could recognize as-yet-unseen samples of each other's work,including work in entirely different mediums.Creative writers could identify their fellow writers' paintings and sketches;painters had a pretty good idea who'd brought which poem or clay pot. It's clear what the bees were doing:picking up and categorizing complex visual patterns in the pairs of images.But recognizing differences across mediums is altogether different.Whether we're writing poems or building sculptures,Gabora argues,we're doing so with the same mind:one that structures information in the same way,has been shaped by the same experiences,and longs to express the same ideas.Naturally, our techniques and preoccupations in one domain should"out"us in another. But still I wonder:Just what about these techniques and preoccupations did the trick?The researchers did their best to keep subject matter from ruling the day by instructing,for instance,artists who happened to be surfers not to bring in art that depicted (surfing.But what of less obvious subject matter-like Western landscapes?And what of the obsessions that come into our work unawares?A correlational study 第4刀 like this one will not answer these questions. Perhaps my biggest question has to do with people who don't identify as artists,and haven't settled-or at least would claim so-on a personal style.Are their creations also a reflection of their worldview?It seems likely that,at least to some extent,bad art is all alike,while only good art is good in its own way. 31.Why does the author mention bees? A.To present an example. B.To put forward a theory. C.To draw out a comparison. D.To highlight a research finding. 32.Why does the author think humans still have the edge? A.Because we can transfer our experiences. B.Because we can discriminate styles. C.Because we can categorize patterns. D.Because we can learn from trials. 33.What does the underlined word"out"in Paragraph 6 probably mean? A.Assist. B.Trick. C.Beat. D.Expose. 34.What might be the best title for the passage? A.Will Bees Beat Humans? B.How Will You View a View? C.Why Good Art Works Wonders? D.What Makes Hemingway Hemingway? 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。选项中有两项为多余 选项。 Organic agriculture is often thought of as green and good for nature.Conventional agriculture,in contrast,is cast as big and bad.35 A widespread shift to organic would leave billions hungry,researchers predict.36 Organic output is typically 25 percent lower than conventional farming output.Switching all the world to organic would mean turning 24 percent more natural habitats into agricultural land to meet future demands,doing more harm than good to nature. 共5页 Researchers who conclude that organic agriculture could not feed the globe's growing population also recognize that conventional agriculture can't carry on as it is,either.37 In experiments,they are testing integrated approaches that combine the green touch of organic farming with a small amount of chemical fertilizer and strictly targeted chemical treatments applied when needed-an approach known as low-input agriculture. Studies show that low-input integrated farming is successful for both output and the environment After an eight-year experiment,scientists reported promising results from multi-year crop rotation ( systems.Crops were switched every two to four years and assessed for output.Output rose as the number of rotations increased.38 The potential harm to freshwater ecosystems from weed killer was 99.9 percent lower in the low-input corn plots than in the conventional corn plots. 39 Organic farming is important on local scales,but the world won't ever be fed by just organic. A more realistic goal is to expand organic farmland while putting the rest on a more sustainable footing.For now,research is advancing by deepening our understanding of what eco-friendly farming really means. A.This strategy also had environmental benefits. B.So scientists are doubling down on the middle road. C.Organic fields are an experimental ground for boosting profits. D.None of this means that people should stop buying organic produce. E.Therefore,some crops grow better than others under organic conditions. F.Yet scientists are finding that organic farming is not as green as it seems. G.Specifically,output is the one crucial feature where organic farming falls short 第三部分：书面表达（共两节，27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。 Fast fashion has made it easy for consumers to purchase new clothing frequently and at low cost.But today many people are now seeking something better:clothes that last,are made with intention,and carry real meaning.This is why craftsmanship is coming back. One visible expression of this shift is the renewed interest in repairing garments.From patching worn spots to adding personal embroidery )people are doing it for fun or making their own style.With visible mending,they are not hiding the damage,but showing the story.This hands-on engagement fosters a deeper connection between individuals and their clothing.People no longer just want to wear clothes-they want to be part of them. 第51 The appreciation for craftsmanship is not limited to personal practices,but extends to a broader cultural reevaluation of fashion traditions.Techniques and styles once dismissed as outdated are now increasingly valued for their detail,history,and authenticity.In contrast to the uniformity promoted by fast fashion,many consumers are turning toward garments that carry culture,family stories,and time-honored skills.You see them in handmade jackets and detailed weaving. Sustainability is another major driver of the revival.Fast fashion generates enormous waste and environmental harm,while handcrafted pieces frequently use natural and recycled materials.Many are made to order,eliminating excess production,and most can be repaired and passed down rather than thrown away.Choosing handmade is gentler on the planet and better to the people making the clothes.While big retailers still push out the most clothes,smaller brands are changing the game-not by volume,but by values.They focus on quality over quantity,working with skilled local makers and using materials that last. To avoid waste.many of them slow down production,skip the constant trend-chasing,and even offer preorders,which is gaining popularity for letting people wear something real. In a world full of quick,disposable goods,the comeback of craftsmanship represents not a passing trend,but a fundamental shift toward meaning,responsibility,and lasting value in fashion. 40.What kind of clothes are many people looking for today? 41.Apart from personal interest,what other factors contribute to the comeback of craftsmanship? 42.Please decide which part is false in the following statement,then underline it and explain why. Many smaller fashion brands slow down production and even offer pre-orders to gain popularity. 43.How will you apply craftsmanship in another field besides fashion?In about 40 words) 第二节(20分) 44.假设你是红星中学高一学生李华。你校上个月进行了研学活动。你的英国好友Ji对此很感兴趣， 发来邮件询问活动情况。请你用英文给他回复，内容包括： 1.活动内容； 2.你的收获。 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 共5页