广东揭阳市2025-2026学年高二下学期期末考试英语试题

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揭阳市2025~2026学年度高中二年级教学质量测试

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本试卷共10页，满分120分。考试用时120分钟。

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第二部分 阅读理解（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和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A

Community Gardening Program Sign-up

Join our city’s Community Gardening Program this summer at Green Lake Park, a welcoming activity open to all local residents. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced gardener, this program offers a fantastic opportunity to grow your own fresh produce while connecting with neighbors. There are no hidden fees for any services provided.

We provide 3 m² shared garden plots on a first-come, first-served basis. Professional gardeners from the City Agricultural Research Institute will offer free weekly on-site guidance, covering scientific planting techniques, natural pest control methods, seasonal seed selection, and proper watering schedules for different plants.

Fees & Requirements

A 50-yuan annual fee covers the use of your garden plot and basic tools such as shovels and rakes. Please note that seeds or seedlings are not included and must be brought by you. All participants must attend a required 1-hour training session on July 15(10:00 am) or July 16(2:00 pm) at the park’s Community Center. Children aged 8 and above are welcome to join if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.

Additional Benefits

Enjoy access to a monthly garden market where you can sell extra produce; receive free organic fertilizer on the first Saturday of each month.

Sign-up Details

Register before July 10 via the City Community Service Website (http://www.citycs.com) or at the Green

Lake Park office. For inquiries, contact our hotline 010-12345678 (Weekdays, 9:00 am-5:00 pm).

1. What will the professional gardeners teach?

A. Skills in designing a community park. B. Ways to control pests naturally.

C. Rules for selling garden produce. D. Steps to apply for the program online.

2. What does the annual fee cover?

A. Basic gardening tools. B. Seeds and seedlings.

C. Weekly professional guidance. D. Extra produce at the market.

3. What is an additional benefit of the program?

A. Getting free professional training. B. Buying organic fertilizer at a low price.

C. Earning money from garden harvests. D. Sharing plots with experienced gardeners.

B

The Silent Scream of Midway: A Tragedy in Plastic

On the lonely shores of Midway Atoll, far from any continent, wildlife photographer Chris Jordan found a scene that would stay in his mind forever. He had originally come to this remote island to take photos of the large Laysan Albatross, a seabird that is a beautiful symbol of freedom. However, instead of finding life, he found a sad truth that was easy to see — a heartbreaking sign of how careless humans can be.

These wonderful birds travel thousands of miles across the ocean with great skill. But now, they are falling victim to a modern trick. They mistake our floating trash — such as colorful bottle caps, old lighters, and sharp toy pieces — for food. Tragically, when the parent birds return to their nests, they unknowingly feed a deadly mix of plastic to their hungry chicks.

Filled with sadness and the need to act, Jordan refused to just watch this happen. He started a moving project titled “Midway: Message from the Gyre (环流).” He carefully removed the plastic waste from the bodies of the dead chicks. Then, he arranged the colorful trash into art pieces that looked just like the birds themselves.

It is a cruel irony that these birds hunt by smell, not by sight. They are fooled by plastic that smells like the ocean. As a result, the chicks die of hunger or internal injuries, their stomachs full of plastic that cannot be digested. Jordan’s powerful images have since spread around the world. They force viewers to see the direct link between their daily habits and the death of innocent animals thousands of miles away.

“One chick contained 23 lighters, 19 bottle caps, and over Section A plastic pieces,” Jordan writes. “I wanted people to look at the beauty of the bird and the ugliness of the trash at the same time. It is not about blaming anyone; it is about waking everyone up.” Today, these images serve as a powerful, silent scream from the ocean, reminding

us that when we throw away our waste, there is no such place as “away” — there is only the world we all share, and the innocent lives that pay the price for our convenience.

4. What did Jordan do with the plastic found in the dead chicks?

A. He turned it into bird-shaped art. B. He sent it to a recycling center.

C. He buried it back into the sand. D. He displayed it in a museum case.

5. Why do the Albatrosses mistake plastic for food?

A. The plastic looks exactly like fish. B. Parent birds are trained to collect it.

C. The birds have poor eyesight. D. The plastic absorbs ocean scents.

6. What is the main purpose of Jordan’s project?

A. To win international photography awards. B. To raise awareness of human behavior.

C. To blame manufacturers for plastic waste. D. To prove Albatrosses can’t adapt to nature.

7. What does the author imply by stating the underlined sentence?

A. There is no space left to dump our garbage.

B. Midway Atoll is the only polluted place on earth.

C. We cannot escape the consequences of our actions.

D. The ocean is too far away to be protected.

C

Claims that artificial intelligence (AI) borders on human intelligence have become commonplace. Some believe that rapid advances in large language models that signal “super-intelligence” will fundamentally reshape society. However, this comparison misses something essential about what human intelligence is.

Research shows that human intelligence emerges from processes like shared language, cultural communication, cooperation and progressive learning across generations. AI systems, by contrast, do not cooperate or form social bonds. They process information separately, responding to prompts without awareness, intention or responsibility.

Human intelligence is also concrete. Our thinking is shaped by physical experience, emotion and social interaction, which ground abstract reasoning later in life. AI lacks this grounding. Language models learn statistical patterns from text, not meaning from lived experience. They do not understand concepts in the way humans do.

Advocates of AI progress often point to the vast amounts of data used to train modern systems. Yet this data represents a remarkably narrow section of humanity. Around 80% of online content is produced in just ten languages, while over 7,000 languages are spoken worldwide, with only a few hundred represented online. Training