Unit 2 Looking into the Future（单元自测卷·广东专用）英语人教版选择性必修第一册

2026-2027学年高二英语选择性必修一单元自测卷 Unit 2 Looking into the Future 学校:___________班级：___________姓名：___________分数：___________ （时间：120分钟，满分：130分） 注意事项 1. 答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。 2. 回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上，写在本试卷上无效。 3. 考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。 第一部分 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和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 A Four top STEM toys worth considering There are many gift options for children. Here are four of the top toys that are not only entertaining but also help develop skills in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).Micro: bit Starter Kit Micro: bit Starter Kit is perfect for teenagers who are ready to take a deep dive into coding (编程). It comes with a temperature sensor, a motor, LEDs, a photocell, a small speaker and fan, switches, wires and other parts for users to run endless experiments. After gaining confidence in their skills, teens will have the freedom to create their own unique circuits (电路) beyond the guide’s examples. (Elecfreaks, $34.90) MBot In just 15 minutes from taking out the easy-to-build MBot from the box, 8- to 12-year-olds can have a programmable robot at their fingertips. Download Makeblock’s app, load the robot and its remote with batteries, and MBot can operate like a remote-control car. The app is packed with coding lessons that teach users how to program the robot to play music, follow lines, and avoid obstacles (障碍). (Makeblock, $99.99) Tale-Bot Pro Preschoolers can press the buttons on the top of this robot to program it. As the robot moves along the map and stops at different places, it strings together a story for the user to listen to. The toy, which supports ten different languages and features over 256 commands, teaches kids the basics of commands. (Matatalab, $99.99) AlphaBot Intended for 4- to 10-year-olds, this alphabet board book allows early readers to design their own robots while learning vocabulary that will carry over into their advanced STEM learning. Each colorful illustration of a robot part features the term — such as “neural network” or “Z-drive” — used to describe that part, along with an explanation of how the part functions. (MIT Kids Press, $14.99) 1. Which toy is most suitable for high school students? A. Micro: bit Starter Kit. B. MBot. C. Tale-Bot Pro. D. AlphaBot. 2. What do we know about these toys? A. Tale-Bot Pro can be used to share your stories. B. MBot can help children create a robotic car by hand. C. Micro: bit Starter Kit can be used to do chemical experiments. D. AlphaBot can help children learn vocabulary related to STEM. 3. What do the four toys have in common? A. They are fun but impractical. B. They are creative but expensive. C. They are classic and entertaining. D. They are interesting and educational. 【答案】1．A 2．D 3．D 【导语】本文是一篇应用文。文章围绕青少年STEM益智玩具选择展开，作答时应结合篇章结构和文本证据。 【解析】 1．细节理解题。根据Micro: bit Starter Kit部分“Micro: bit Starter Kit is perfect for teenagers who are ready to take a deep dive into coding (编程).(Micro: bit Starter Kit非常适合准备深入学习编程的青少年)”可知，Micro: bit Starter Kit最适合高中生。 2．细节理解题。根据AlphaBot部分“Intended for 4- to 10-year-olds, this alphabet board book allows early readers to design their own robots while learning vocabulary that will carry over into their advanced STEM learning.(适合4至10岁儿童，这本字母板书让初学阅读的儿童在学习词汇的同时设计属于自己的机器人，这些词汇将为他们后续的高阶STEM学习打下基础)”可知，AlphaBot可帮助儿童学习与STEM相关的词汇。 3．细节理解题。根据第一段“There are many gift options for children. Here are four of the top toys that are not only entertaining but also help develop skills in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).(儿童礼物选择丰富多样。以下是四款不仅有趣，还能帮助孩子发展科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）技能的优质玩具)”可知，这四个玩具有趣且富有教育意义。 B A Humanoid Robot Set a Half-Marathon Record in China An autonomous robot ran a half marathon in 50: 26, beating the human record by 7minutes. The star performer was a robot developed by the Chinese company Honor, which finished the 13.1-mile race in 50 minutes, 26 seconds. The human record, set by Ugandan Olympic medalist Jacob Kiplimo, is 57 minutes, 20 seconds. Honor’s robot was not the only participant. The event consisted of more than 100 humanoid (人形的) robots from 76 institutions across China. The robots lined up alongside 12,000 human runners in Beijing’s E-Town, on separate route to avoid accidents. A humanoid robot is designed to copy the structure and movement of the human body, with legs, arms, and sensors that allow it to interact with its environment. In addition, many of the participating robots operated autonomously, meaning without direct human control. Thanks to artificial intelligence algorithms (算法), they could adjust their pace, maintain balance, and adapt to the land in real time. Obviously, the Honor robot that achieved the 50-minute mark operated autonomously. As expected, there were some accidents in the race. Some robots fell down, others changed the path, and several needed technical assistance along the way. While the physical performance of humanoid robots has advanced rapidly, their reliability is still developing. Of course, the laughter is no longer as frequent as they used to be, replaced by applause and exclamations of surprise. Just like the robots that went viral for their impressive martial arts display a few weeks ago, this long-distance race is part of a broader strategy by China to show its leadership in the development of advanced robots. However, it’s understandable that the image of a robot crossing the finish line in record time, ahead of human athletes, raises several questions. Is this the beginning of a new era in which machines redefine physical limits? 4. What do we know about the participants of the Half-Marathon? A. Robots and humans ran on separate routes. B. All robots completed the race without difficulty. C. The race was held mainly for top human athletes. D. Over 76 robots from different institutes participated in the race. 5. What is Paragraph 3 mainly about? A. The different types of humanoid robots in the race. B. The problems that humanoid robots face in races. C. The comparison between robots and human runners. D. The design and working principles of humanoid robots. 6. What is the author’s attitude toward the development of Chinese humanoid robots? A. Doubtful and worried. B. Uninterested and casual. C. Objective and positive. D. Critical and disappointed. 7. What does the last paragraph imply? A. Human runners may lose their passion for marathon sports. B. People start to reflect on robots’ impact on human physical limits. C. The public generally refuses to accept the robot’s racing achievement. D. Robots will definitely outperform humans in all physical competitions. 【答案】4．A 5．D 6．C 7．B 【导语】本文是一篇新闻报道。文章围绕人形机器人参加半程马拉松展开，作答时应结合篇章结构和文本证据。 【解析】 4．细节理解题。根据第二段“The robots lined up alongside 12,000 human runners in Beijing’s E-Town, on separate route to avoid accidents.(机器人与1.2万名人类跑者并排排列在北京的E城，沿不同路线前行以避免发生事故)”可知，机器人和人类分别在不同的路线中跑步。 5．主旨大意题。根据第三段“A humanoid robot is designed to copy the structure and movement of the human body, with legs, arms, and sensors that allow it to interact with its environment. In addition, many of the participating robots operated autonomously, meaning without direct human control. Thanks to artificial intelligence algorithms (算法), they could adjust their pace, maintain balance, and adapt to the land in real time. Obviously, the Honor robot that achieved the 50-minute mark operated autonomously.(人形机器人被设计成模仿人体的结构和动作，配备腿部、手臂和传感器，使其能够与周围环境进行互动。此外，许多参赛机器人实现了自主运行，即无需人工直接操控。借助人工智能算法，它们能够实时调整速度、保持平衡并适应地面状况。显然，达到50分钟纪录的荣耀机器人是自主运行的)”可知，第三段主要讲了人形机器人的设计与工作原理。 6．推理判断题。根据第一段“An autonomous robot ran a half marathon in 50: 26, beating the human record by 7minutes.(一台自主机器人以50分26秒的成绩跑完半程马拉松，比人类纪录快了7分钟)”；第三段“In addition, many of the participating robots operated autonomously, meaning without direct human control. Thanks to artificial intelligence algorithms (算法), they could adjust their pace, maintain balance, and adapt to the land in real time. Obviously, the Honor robot that achieved the 50-minute mark operated autonomously.(此外，许多参赛机器人实现了自主运行，即无需人工直接操控。借助人工智能算法，它们能够实时调整速度、保持平衡并适应地面环境。显然，达到50分钟纪录的荣耀机器人是自主运行的)”以及第四段“As expected, there were some accidents in the race. Some robots fell down, others changed the path, and several needed technical assistance along the way. While the physical performance of humanoid robots has advanced rapidly, their reliability is still developing.(正如预期的那样，比赛中发生了一些意外情况。一些机器人摔倒了，有些改变了行驶路线，还有几台在途中需要技术支援。尽管人形机器人的物理性能已迅速进步，但其可靠性仍在不断改进中)”可知，文中夸赞机器人破纪录、技术飞速进步，同时客观提及比赛故障，态度客观积极。 7．推理判断题。根据最后一段“However, it’s understandable that the image of a robot crossing the finish line in record time, ahead of human athletes, raises several questions. Is this the beginning of a new era in which machines redefine physical limits?(然而，机器人以创纪录的速度冲过终点线，领先于人类运动员的形象，确实引发了一些疑问。这是否意味着一个新时代的开始，机器正在重新定义身体的极限？)”可知，人们开始反思机器人对人类生理极限的影响。 C Imagine you’d like a pair of robotic arms fixed in your home simply to do one thing: fold clothes. How would it learn to do that? You could start by writing rules. Check the clothes to figure out how much force they can stand before being torn. Locate a shirt’s collar. Move the robotic hands to the left sleeve, lift it, and fold it inward by exactly the same distance. Repeat for the right sleeve. If the sleeve is twisted (扭曲), correct it. Very quickly the number of rules increases, but a complete accounting of them could produce dependable results. This was the original technology of robotics: expecting every possibility and programming it in advance. Around 2015, the most advanced robots started to do things differently: A digital simulation (模拟) of the robotic arms and the clothes was built, and the program received a reward signal every time it folded a piece of clothing successfully. This way, it got better by trying all sorts of techniques, with millions of repetitions — the same way AI gets good at playing games. Then the arrival of ChatGPT drove the further development in this field. Trained on large amounts of text, large language models (LLMs) worked not through repetitions and corrections, but by learning to guess what word should come next in a sentence. Similar models adapted to robotics were soon able to understand pictures, sensor readings, and the position of a robot’s joints and guess the next action the machine should take, sending dozens of motor commands (指令) every second. This change seems to work, whether the robot is supposed to talk to people, move through a space, or even do difficult tasks. And it is paired with other ideas about how to achieve this new way of learning, even if they aren’t yet perfect, so they can learn from the environment they’re meant to work in. 8. Why is the example of robotic arms folding clothes given in paragraph 1? A. To stress the advantage of robotic technology. B. To prove robots can manage daily housework. C. To introduce the working pattern of early robots. D. To show the shortcomings of pre-programmed robots. 9. What made robots advance around 2015? A. More timely corrections. B. Virtual training models. C. Popularity of AI-powered games. D. Easy access to quality data. 10. How do LLMs-adapted robots break previous technical limits? A. They finish tasks through repetition. B. They guess the following moves. C. They deal with data more smoothly. D. They respond to commands more quickly. 11. Which of the following can be the best title for the text? A. The Application of Digital Simulations B. The Limitations of Early Robots C. The Future of Large Language Models D. The Development of Robotic Learning 【答案】8．D 9．B 10．B 11．D 【导语】本文是一篇说明文。文章围绕机器人学习方式的发展展开，作答时应结合篇章结构和文本证据。 【解析】 8．推理判断题。根据第一段“Very quickly the number of rules increases, but a complete accounting of them could produce dependable results. This was the original technology of robotics: expecting every possibility and programming it in advance. (很快，规则的数量就会迅速增加，但若能全面记录所有规则，就能获得可靠的结果。这正是机器人技术的最初技术：预想所有可能性，并提前编程实现)”以及第二段“Around 2015, the most advanced robots started to do things differently (大约在2015年，最先进的机器人开始以不同的方式运作)”可知，作者用机械臂叠衣服的案例细致刻画预编程机器人流程繁琐、需要海量预设规则的特征，借后文转折句形成新旧技术对比，以此展现预编程机器人存在固有短板。 9．细节理解题。根据第二段“Around 2015, the most advanced robots started to do things differently: A digital simulation (模拟) of the robotic arms and the clothes was built... This way, it got better by trying all sorts of techniques, with millions of repetitions (大约在2015年，最先进的机器人开始以不同的方式运作：研究人员构建了机械臂和衣物的数字模拟环境……通过尝试各种技术并进行数百万次重复操作，它不断进步)”可知，虚拟训练模型推动了机器人技术进步。 10．细节理解题。根据第三段“large language models (LLMs) worked not through repetitions and corrections, but by learning to guess what word should come next in a sentence...guess the next action the machine should take (大型语言模型在大量文本上进行训练，其工作方式不再依赖重复和修正，而是通过学习预测句子中下一个词是什么来实现……预测下一步应采取的操作)”可知，这类机器人通过预判后续动作突破以往技术局限。 11．主旨大意题。第一段以机械臂叠衣服举例，介绍早期机器人预先编写全部规则的传统学习模式；第二段讲述2015年出现数字虚拟模拟训练，机器人通过大量重复试错自我优化；第三段说明大语言模型落地机器人领域，依靠预判下一步行动完成任务，实现技术革新；末段补充该新型学习模式的应用优势。由此可知，全文围绕机器人学习技术的演变过程分层展开。因此，“The Development of Robotic Learning (机器人学习技术的发展)”最适合作为文章标题。 D Many people with high blood pressure are asked by doctors to eat less salt. This is good for their health, but it is not always easy. Salt makes food taste better, and low-salt food often tastes boring. As a result, some people find it hard to keep a healthy diet for a long time. Now researchers in Japan have developed a pair of high-tech chopsticks that may help solve this problem. The chopsticks were made by a team from Meiji University and a food company called Kirin. They are part of a small electronic device (装置), so they look a little different from common chopsticks. The device does not add real salt to the food. Instead, it makes people feel that the food tastes saltier. In the first test, people using the chopsticks felt that the food was about 1.5 times saltier than before. How can chopsticks do this? The idea is not too difficult to understand. A very weak electric current(电流) goes from one chopstick to the mouth. It is so weak that people do not feel pain. The current changes the way salt in the food is felt by the tongue. As a result, low-salt food may taste more like normal food. To check whether the chopsticks really worked, the researchers invited 36 people aged 40 to 65 to take part in a test. All of them were trying to eat less salt. They tasted food with normal chopsticks and with the high-tech chopsticks. The result showed that most of them tasted more salt when they used the new chopsticks. Some even thought low-salt food with the new chopsticks tasted saltier than common food with normal chopsticks. The chopsticks are not being sold in shops yet. However, the early results are encouraging. For people who have to eat less salt but still want tasty food, this small invention may bring good news in the future. 12. Why did the researchers make the high-tech chopsticks? A. To make chopsticks cheaper. B. To help people eat less salt but still enjoy food. C. To teach people how to cook. D. To make food colder. 13. How do the chopsticks make food taste saltier? A. By adding real salt to the food. B. By changing the color of the food. C. By using weak electricity. D. By making the food hotter. 14. What does the underlined word “check” in paragraph 4 mean? A. Make sure. B. Give up. C. Take away. D. Write down. 15. What does the writer think of the chopsticks? A. They are useless. B. They are too dangerous. C. They are already common. D. They may be helpful in the future. 【答案】12．B 13．C 14．A 15．D 【导语】本文是一篇research。文章围绕辅助健康管理的智能筷子展开，作答时应结合篇章结构和文本证据。 【解析】 12．细节理解题。根据第一段“Many people with high blood pressure are asked by doctors to eat less salt. This is good for their health, but it is not always easy. Salt makes food taste better, and low-salt food often tastes boring. As a result, some people find it hard to keep a healthy diet for a long time. Now researchers in Japan have developed a pair of high-tech chopsticks that may help solve this problem.(许多高血压患者被医生要求少吃盐，这对健康有益但并不容易做到。盐能让食物更美味，低盐食物通常味道乏味，因此一些人很难长期坚持健康饮食。现在日本研究人员研发了一双高科技筷子，或许可以帮助解决这个问题)”可知，研发筷子的目的是帮助人们在少吃盐的同时享受美味。 13．细节理解题。根据第三段中“A very weak electric current(电流) goes from one chopstick to the mouth. It is so weak that people do not feel pain. The current changes the way salt in the food is felt by the tongue. As a result, low-salt food may taste more like normal food.(非常微弱的电流从一根筷子流到嘴里。它太弱了，人们感觉不到疼痛。电流改变了舌头感觉食物中盐的方式。)”可知，筷子通过微弱电流让食物尝起来更咸。 14．词义猜测题。根据第四段中“To check whether the chopsticks really worked, the researchers invited 36 people aged 40 to 65 to take part in a test.(为了check筷子是否真的有效，研究人员邀请了36名年龄在40至65岁之间的人参加测试)”可知，研究者开展测试是为了验证、确认这款筷子是否真的有效。check此处意为“核实、确认”，与make sure同义。 15．推理判断题。根据最后一段“The chopsticks are not being sold in shops yet. However, the early results are encouraging. For people who have to eat less salt but still want tasty food, this small invention may bring good news in the future.(这些筷子还没有在商店里出售。然而，初步结果令人鼓舞。对于那些不得不少吃盐但仍然想要美味食物的人来说，这项小小的发明可能会在未来带来好消息)”可知，作者认为这种筷子在未来可能会很有帮助。 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。 The best ways to improve creative thinking When it comes to creativity, one of our biggest concerns is usually how we can be more creative, or how to come up with better ideas. I’ve gathered some of the most practical studies to help improve creativity. All of these studies are useful for everyday creativity.____16____ Embrace something absurd (荒谬的).____17____Absurd art makes the brain work extra hard for a moment when the mind tries to work out exactly what it is looking at or reading, which contributes to innovation to a large extent. I like reading interesting short stories like The Last Question when I am looking for some inspiration. Create when emotions run high. While many assume happiness is the key to creativity, recent research reached an important conclusion:____18____I’m not suggesting you put yourself in a bad mood to create something, but next time you find yourself in a strong emotional state, try sitting down and focus that energy on creating something. ____19____Some research suggests that exercise can actually improve creative thinking as well, due to its ability to get the heart pumping and put people in a positive mood.____20____In both cases, what matters isn’t the specific activity, but the positive emotional shift it creates. If you’re stuck in a creative job and want to take a break, try exercise while your brain is subconsciously at work. It may help to speed up your “Aha!” moment. A. Fuel creativity through workouts. B. Come up with more creative ideas. C. The more intense the emotion, the greater the creativity. D. Try a few out for yourself and see which ones work best for you. E. We are in two very different states of mind when we are trying to create something. F. Research suggests reading or experiencing such things can help improve creative thinking. G. It’s similar to how other research shows that thinking about love can produce more creative thoughts. 【答案】16．D 17．F 18．C 19．A 20．G 【导语】本文是一篇方法指导类说明文。文章围绕激发创造性思维的方法展开，设空主要考查段落结构、逻辑衔接和指代关系。 【解析】 16．根据上文“I’ve gathered some of the most practical studies to help improve creativity. All of these studies are useful for everyday creativity.(我收集了一些最实用的研究成果，以帮助提升创造力。这些研究对日常创造力的提升都十分有益)”可知，作者要介绍一些帮助提升创造力的研究成果。由此可知，D. Try a few out for yourself and see which ones work best for you.(自己尝试一下其中的一些方法，看看哪些对你最有效)符合语境，建议读者尝试一下，从中选择适合自己的。故选D项。 17．根据本段首句“Embrace something absurd (荒谬的).(接受一些荒诞的事物)”及下文“Absurd art makes the brain work extra hard for a moment when the mind tries to work out exactly what it is looking at or reading, which contributes to innovation to a large extent.(荒诞的艺术能让大脑在瞬间付出额外的努力，因为此时大脑需要确切地理解所看到或所读的内容，这在很大程度上促进了创新)”可知，本段指出大脑接受一些看似荒诞的事物可以提升创新力。由此可知，F. Research suggests reading or experiencing such things can help improve creative thinking.(研究表明，阅读或体验这类事物有助于提高创造性思维)符合语境，such things对应前文的“something absurd”。故选F项。 18．根据本段首句“Create when emotions run high.(在情绪高涨时进行创作)”及下文“I’m not suggesting you put yourself in a bad mood to create something, but next time you find yourself in a strong emotional state, try sitting down and focus that energy on creating something.(我并不是建议你故意让自己处于不良情绪中来创作，但下次你发现自己处于强烈的情绪状态时，试着坐下来，将这种能量集中到创作上)”可知，本段中作者建议在情绪高涨状态下创作，这样有可能创作出好作品。由此可知，C. The more intense the emotion, the greater the creativity.(情绪越强烈，创造力就越大)符合语境，对应空前的“an important conclusion”。故选C项。 19．该空为段首句应该是一个和下文有关的新的建议。根据下文“Some research suggests that exercise can actually improve creative thinking as well, due to its ability to get the heart pumping and put people in a positive mood.(一些研究表明，运动实际上也能提升创造性思维，这是因为运动能够促使心脏跳动、让人心情愉悦)”可知，本段在讲身体锻炼会提升创造力。由此可知，A. Fuel creativity through workouts.(通过锻炼来激发创造力)符合语境。故选A项。 20．根据下文“In both cases, what matters isn’t the specific activity, but the positive emotional shift it creates.(在这两种情况下，关键不在于具体的活动本身，而在于它所引发的积极情绪变化)”可知，作者在建议锻炼身体之后此处又例举了一种可以让人心情愉悦从而激发创造力的做法。由此可知，G. It’s similar to how other research shows that thinking about love can produce more creative thoughts.(这与另一些研究的结果类似，即思考爱能够激发更多的创造性想法)符合语境，锻炼和思考爱这两种情况都能使人产生积极情绪。故选G项。 第二部分 语言知识运用（共三节，满分40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。 Jackie Faherty is a well-known astrophysicist (天体物理学家) and educator who devotes her life to researching mysterious objects in space. As a child, Faherty used to look up at the night sky and____21____. “Why are we here? What is this Earth?” Faherty____22____thought she could work in astronomy (天文学), for she thought it was a field____23____by men. Later, a movie featuring a female scientist____24____everything and set her on her astronomy career path. Now Faherty works at the American Museum of Natural History, where she studies objects in space —____25____, brown dwarfs. Brown dwarf, which is neither a planet nor a star, doesn’t have enough energy to shine____26____. Her work, including more than 180 peer-reviewed articles in astrophysics journals, has helped people____27____more about brown dwarfs. “One of the brown dwarfs called the Accident is probably the____28____one we’ve ever found,” Faherty says, “It came together around the same time our universe (宇宙) was forming.” Faherty and her team are working to understand what the Accident is made of. “I can use that information to try to understand the ‘____29____’ of planets,” she says. Faherty leads____30____programs at the museum, too. Visitors can attend her public talks. She shares the wonders of____31____with people of all ages, involving the public in exciting new discoveries in astronomy. Through her____32____and teaching, Faherty is expanding our knowledge about space and____33____the next generation of scientists. Her____34____to future astrophysicists? “You should work hard — but you should always have hobbies.____35____your interests. You should never just do one thing. Spread your brain. It makes you a better person.” 21. A. cry B. explain C. complain D. wonder 22. A. always B. never C. sometimes D. frequently 23. A. ruled B. built C. created D. founded 24. A. stressed B. changed C. missed D. covered 25. A. in particular B. in general C. in time D. in short 26. A. weakly B. faintly C. darkly D. brightly 27. A. understand B. doubt C. forget D. measure 28. A. oldest B. farthest C. heaviest D. brightest 29. A. colors B. shapes C. ingredients D. sizes 30. A. cultural B. educational C. medical D. traditional 31. A. museum B. education C. space D. teamwork 32. A. trip B. plan C. research D. dream 33. A. uniting B. representing C. serving D. inspiring 34. A. question B. story C. reason D. advice 35. A. Show B. Stop C. Vary D. Keep 【答案】 21．D 22．B 23．A 24．B 25．A 26．D 27．A 28．A 29．C 30．B 31．C 32．C 33．D 34．D 35．C 【导语】本文是一篇记叙文。文章讲述天体物理学家Jackie Faherty从童年仰望星空到从事褐矮星研究，并积极开展科学传播的成长经历。 21．考查动词。句意：小时候，法厄蒂常常仰望夜空心生疑惑。A. cry哭；B. explain解释；C. complain抱怨；D. wonder好奇，疑惑。结合后文两个疑问问句“Why are we here? What is this Earth?”可知，她望着星空内心充满好奇。 22．考查副词。句意：法厄蒂从来没想过自己能从事天文相关工作，因为她觉得这是男性主导的领域。A. always总是；B. never从不；C. sometimes有时；D. frequently频繁地。后文“for she thought it was a field ____ by men.”表明她一度认为天文学只属于男性，所以从前从未想过入行。 23．考查动词。句意：法厄蒂从来没想过自己能从事天文相关工作，因为她觉得这是男性主导的领域。A. ruled主导，统治；B. built建造；C. created创造；D. founded创立。根据后文“by men”此处指该领域长期由男性掌控主导。 24．考查动词。句意：后来一部以女科学家为主角的电影改变了一切，让她走上天文研究道路。A. stressed强调；B. changed改变；C. missed错过；D. covered覆盖。根据后文“everything and set her on her astronomy career path”可知，电影扭转了她原先的想法，开启她的职业道路。 25．考查介词短语。句意：如今法厄蒂在美国自然历史博物馆工作，研究宇宙天体，尤其是褐矮星。A. in particular尤其，特别；B. in general总体来说；C. in time及时；D. in short简而言之。根据“brown dwarfs”以及后文专门介绍褐矮星，是她重点研究对象。 26．考查副词。句意：褐矮星既不属于行星也不属于恒星，没有足够能量发出明亮的光。A. weakly微弱地；B. faintly暗淡地；C. darkly昏暗地；D. brightly明亮地。根据上文“Brown dwarf, which is neither a planet nor a star, doesn’t have enough energy to shine”可知，恒星可以明亮发光，而褐矮星能量不足，无法亮起来。 27．考查动词。句意：她的成果包含180多篇专业天文期刊论文，帮助人们更多了解褐矮星。A. understand了解，理解；B. doubt怀疑；C. forget忘记；D. measure测量。根据上文“more than 180 peer-reviewed articles in astrophysics journals”可知，大量研究文章加深大众对褐矮星的认知。 28．考查形容词。句意：其中一颗名为“Accident”的褐矮星或许是人类发现最古老的一颗。A. oldest最古老的；B. farthest最远的；C. heaviest最重的；D. brightest最亮的。后文“It came together around the same time our universe was forming”提到它形成于宇宙诞生初期，说明年代最久远。 29．考查名词。句意：“我可以利用这些信息来尝试理解行星的‘成分’，”她说。A. colors颜色；B. shapes形状；C. ingredients成分；D. sizes尺寸。前文“Faherty and her team are working to understand what the Accident is made of.”提到团队研究这颗褐矮星由什么物质构成，对应行星构成成分。 30．考查形容词。句意：法厄蒂也在博物馆开展科普教育项目。A. cultural文化的；B. educational教育的；C. medical医疗的；D. traditional传统的。后文“Visitors can attend her public talks.”提到游客可参加她的科普讲座，属于教育科普活动。 31．考查名词。句意：她向各个年龄段的人分享太空的奇妙之处，让公众参与天文学领域令人兴奋的新发现。A. museum博物馆；B. education教育；C. space太空；D. teamwork团队合作。根据后文“in astronomy.”可知，她的研究领域是太空天体，分享太空奥秘。 32．考查名词。句意：通过她的研究和教学，法厄蒂正在拓展我们对太空的认知，并激励着下一代科学家。A. trip旅行；B. plan计划；C. research研究；D. dream梦想。根据上文“Her work, including more than 180 peer-reviewed articles in astrophysics journals”以及前文大量介绍她的天体研究工作，和教学并列。 33．考查动词。句意：通过她的研究和教学，法厄蒂正在拓展我们对太空的认知，并激励着下一代科学家。A. uniting团结；B. representing代表；C. serving服务；D. inspiring激励。根据后文“the next generation of scientists”可知，她开展科普讲座，鼓舞年轻人投身天文。 34．考查名词。句意：她想送给未来天体物理学家的建议是什么？A. question问题；B. story故事；C. reason理由；D. advice建议。后文“You should never just do one thing. Spread your brain. It makes you a better person.”是她给后辈的建议。 35．考查动词。句意：丰富你的兴趣爱好，不要只专注一件事。A. Show展示；B. Stop停止；C. Vary（使）多样化；D. Keep保持。后文“You should never just do one thing.”说不要只做一件事，要拓展兴趣，让爱好多样化。 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。 Popcorn may soon be moved from movie theater snack stands to the____36____(theater) walls. Scientists at the University of Gottingen have developed a method to turn popcorn____37____eco-friendly building insulation (隔热材料). The team says these materials could cut down on the use of less sustainable (可持续的) products to keep buildings warm and reduce heating costs. Good insulation in a building cuts down on the need to provide heat through oil and gas,____38____(result) in fewer CO2 emissions (排放). When it comes to what makes insulation eco-friendly, the team says these materials should include renewable raw materials, have good heat insulation, be resistant to fire, and be easy to recycle when the building____39____(eventual) comes down. In their experiments, the team successfully developed a new process for making a sustainable and efficient popcorn-based insulation board. Researchers managed____40____(create) a process that produces boards made of popcorn. Tests show____41____boards have excellent heat insulation properties and protect against fire very well. Study____42____(author) believe the biggest advantage popcorn insulation has is that it is a plant-based material: This____43____(make) it eco-friendly and a sustainable alternative to petroleum products and other industry plastics. Additionally, the team finds their popcorn boards do not take in water easily as well,____44____effectively stops them from getting wet and wearing out, possibly expanding their____45____(useful) and durability as a building material. 【答案】 36．theaters’ 37．into 38．resulting 39．eventually 40．to create 41．the 42．authors 43．makes 44．which 45．usefulness 【导语】本文是一篇说明文。文章介绍以爆米花为原料制作环保建筑隔热板的新方法及其可持续价值。 36．考查名词所有格。句意：爆米花或许不久就会从电影院的零食摊位上转而用于影院的墙壁上。此处表示“影院的墙壁”，需用名词所有格形式，且“影院”为泛指的复数概念，故填 theaters’。 37．考查介词。句意：哥廷根大学的科学家们已经研发出一种将爆米花转化为环保型建筑隔热材料的方法。turn...into...表示“将……变成……”，故填into。 38．考查非谓语动词。句意：建筑物良好的隔热性能能够减少对石油和天然气供暖的需求，从而降低二氧化碳排放量。此处为现在分词作结果状语，“良好的隔热减少油气供暖需求” 这一动作自然带来 “二氧化碳排放减少” 的结果，故填resulting。 39．考查副词。句意：当谈到如何使隔热材料具有环保特性时，该团队表示，这些材料应采用可再生的原材料，具备良好的隔热性能，耐火性强，并且在建筑物最终拆除后易于回收利用。修饰动词短语comes down，需用副词eventually。故填eventually。 40．考查非谓语动词。句意：研究人员成功开发出了一种制造工艺，能够生产出由爆米花制成的板材。manage to do sth.表示“设法做成某事”，故填to create。 41．考查冠词。句意：测试表明，这些板材具有出色的绝缘性能，并且在防火方面表现极佳。特指前文提到的“爆米花基隔热板”，需用定冠词the表特指。故填the。 42．考查名词的数。句意：研究作者认为，爆米花材料的最大优势在于它是一种植物性材料：这使得它具有环保特性，并且是石油产品及其他工业塑料的可持续替代品。根据后文谓语动词believe（原形）可知，主语应为复数，故填authors。 43．考查时态。句意：研究作者认为，爆米花材料的最大优势在于它是一种植物性材料：这使得它具有环保特性，并且是石油产品及其他工业塑料的可持续替代品。句子主语为This（指代前文 “植物基材料”这一属性），时态为一般现在时，谓语动词用第三人称单数形式。故填makes。 44．考查定语从句。句意：此外，该团队还发现他们的爆米花板不易吸水，这有效地防止了它们受潮和损坏，从而可能提升了其作为建筑材料的实用性和耐用性。非限制性定语从句，先行词为前文“不易吸水”这件事，从句中缺主语，故用关系代词which引导。故填which。 45．考查名词。句意：此外，该团队还发现他们的爆米花板不易吸水，这有效地防止了它们受潮和损坏，从而可能提升了其作为建筑材料的实用性和耐用性。形容词性物主代词their后需接名词usefulness。故填usefulness。 第三节 词语运用（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分） 根据句意及首字母、中文提示，用选择性必修一Unit 2所学单词的适当形式填空。（在答题卡上必须写出单词完整的正确形式，否则不给分） 46. The smart home records each family member’s p________, so it can adjust the lights and temperature differently for everyone. 【答案】preferences 【解析】each family member及different for everyone说明记录的是多人的偏好，唯一答案为复数preferences。 47. The service robot must ________（服从）the safety rules before carrying out any household task. 【答案】obey 【解析】情态动词must后接动词原形，且safety rules限定语义，唯一答案为obey。 48. When smoke is detected, the system sends a w________ to every phone in the house before the danger becomes serious. 【答案】warning 【解析】smoke和danger限定系统发送警告，冠词a限定单数warning。 49. The software is ________（不断地）updated to recognize new security risks. 【答案】constantly 【解析】空格修饰谓语is updated，必须使用副词constantly。 50. Only information r________ to the user’s health should be shown on the medical screen. 【答案】relevant 【解析】固定搭配be relevant to和health语境共同限定relevant。 51. The first driverless-car test failed; ________（尽管如此）, the engineers continued improving the system. 【答案】nevertheless 【解析】分号后的转折关系唯一限定nevertheless。 52. By learning the residents’ daily r________, the smart home can prepare breakfast and heating at the right time. 【答案】routines 【解析】daily及prepare breakfast and heating表明是多项日常安排，唯一答案为复数routines。 53. The emergency service will remain ________（可获得的）even if the home Internet connection stops working. 【答案】available 【解析】remain后接形容词作表语，语义唯一为available。 54. The energy-saving system f________ tomorrow’s electricity use after analysing a month of household data. 【答案】forecasted 【解析】after analysing和tomorrow’s electricity use说明作出预测；整句叙述已完成测试，唯一答案为forecasted。 55. If an elderly resident falls, the floor sensors will ________（立即）contact the emergency centre. 【答案】instantly 【解析】空格修饰动词contact，必须使用副词instantly。 第三部分 写作（共两节，满分40分） 第一节（满分15分） 56. 在学校刚举办的Sci-Tech Innovation design competition中，你设计的一款老人智能陪护机器人荣获一等奖。请以“My Intelligent Robot for the Elderly”为题写一篇英语短文，内容包括： 1.设计理由； 2.功能介绍； 3.你的期望。 注意事项 ：写作词数应为 80 左右；可适当添加细节，使行文更为连贯。 My Intelligent Robot for the Elderly ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 【导语】本篇书面表达属于说明文。要求考生以“My Intelligent Robot for the Elderly”为题，介绍自己设计的老人智能陪护机器人的设计理由、功能以及期望。 【详解】 My Intelligent Robot for the Elderly As the population ages, the need for elderly care is increasing. My intelligent robot is designed to provide companionship and assistance to the elderly. It can chat with the elderly, tell stories, and play music to relieve their loneliness. It also has a monitoring function to detect the elderly’s health status and call for help in case of an emergency. Additionally, the robot can help the elderly with simple household chores such as cleaning and cooking, lightening their burden and improving their quality of life. I hope this robot can bring more warmth and convenience to the elderly and make their lives more comfortable. 【词汇积累】 provide companionship 提供陪伴 monitor health status 监测健康状况 in case of an emergency 在紧急情况下 household chores 家务 improve quality of life 提高生活质量 【高分句型】 My intelligent robot is designed to provide companionship and assistance to the elderly. It also has a monitoring function to detect the elderly’s health status and call for help in case of an emergency. I hope this robot can bring more warmth and convenience to the elderly. 第二节（满分25分） 57. 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。 Sheldon Cooper, a nine-year-old boy with a great mind, found himself in a difficult situation. His favorite scientific tool had broken, and replacing it required a large amount of money. His mother politely said, “If you want it, you will have to earn it yourself.” So, Sheldon started what he called “The Money Project” — using science to do the everyday job of delivering newspapers. As he had planned, Sheldon’s method was special. He spent days doing research. He studied the weight of the newspaper, planned the best delivery route using maps, and even found the best throwing angle for each house. His planning board was covered in notes and drawings, looking more like a complex puzzle than a simple job plan. On his first Monday, he left home with his prepared basket. The first challenge appeared immediately: the family bicycle was too large for him. After three failed attempts to ride it, he decided to walk, pulling the basket of newspapers behind him. But the basket was so heavy that he soon felt too tired to continue. He quickly thought of a solution. Using an old board, four wheels from broken toys, and some rope, he built a simple homemade cart. Now he could pull the papers easily. Then, the weather, Sheldon had assumed clear weather, turned out different from his forecasts. A light rain began to fall. Sheldon immediately covered the newspaper basket with the plastic he had prepared. This simple action prevented what could have been a real problem. Despite these little episodes (小插曲), his first deliveries were perfect, and he felt pleased. The final challenge came at 17th Elm Street. His goal was the welcome mat, but a large, sleeping dog was lying right on top of it. Sheldon knew getting closer was too dangerous. From where he stood, he could not throw the paper properly. He stood still, his carefully made plan falling apart before this unexpected problem. 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。 After a moment of panic, Sheldon’s scientific mind took over. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Weeks later, “The Money Project” finally paid off. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 【导语】本文是一篇记叙文。九岁的Sheldon为了购买新的科学工具，运用科学方法规划送报路线，并先后解决自行车过大、报纸太重和下雨等问题。最后一户门前的大狗使原有计划失效。续写第一段应承接“科学头脑开始运转”，写他观察环境、计算距离和角度并安全完成投递；第二段应承接“The Money Project终于有了回报”，写他用劳动所得买到工具，并认识到努力、智慧和独立解决问题本身比金钱更有价值。 【详解】 After a moment of panic, Sheldon’s scientific mind took over. Noticing the low fence beside the steps, he quickly calculated the distance and the required throwing angle. He rolled the newspaper into a tight tube. With a precise underhand throw, he sent the paper sliding smoothly along the fence. It traveled in a perfect bend around the sleeping dog and came to rest right at the front door. A small smile appeared on his face as he continued his route, the crisis expertly solved through physics. Weeks later, “The Money Project” finally paid off. Sheldon placed his carefully saved money on the counter, receiving the long-wanted scientific tool. His mother’s eyes met his, shining with pride. As he held the tool, happiness filled him — not just for having it, but for earning it. This experience brought him a greater prize: strong belief in his own mind and the knowledge that some fortunes are earned not with money, but with effort and intellect. This was the real treasure, one that would only grow with time. 【词汇积累】 earn money 挣钱 the required throwing angle 所需的投掷角度 roll the newspaper into a tight tube 把报纸卷成紧实的筒状 with a precise underhand throw 以精准的低手投掷 come to rest 停下来 solve the crisis through physics 用物理知识化解危机 carefully saved money 精心积攒的钱 the long-wanted scientific tool 渴望已久的科学工具 shine with pride 流露出自豪 effort and intellect 努力与智慧 【高分句型】 Noticing the low fence beside the steps, he quickly calculated the distance and the required throwing angle. （现在分词短语作原因或伴随状语，体现观察之后立即计算的思维过程。） With a precise underhand throw, he sent the paper sliding smoothly along the fence. （with介词短语说明方式；send sth doing描写报纸持续滑行的动态。） A small smile appeared on his face as he continued his route, the crisis expertly solved through physics. （as引导时间状语从句，末尾独立主格结构总结问题已被科学解决。） Sheldon placed his carefully saved money on the counter, receiving the long-wanted scientific tool. （现在分词短语作结果状语，衔接“付钱”与“得到工具”。） This experience brought him a greater prize: strong belief in his own mind and the knowledge that some fortunes are earned not with money, but with effort and intellect. （冒号解释greater prize；that引导同位语从句，not...but...突出主题。） 原创精品资源学科网独家享有版权，侵权必究！1 学科网（北京）股份有限公司1 / 23 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $………………○………………外………………○………………装………………○………………订………………○………………线………………○……………… ………………○………………内………………○………………装………………○………………订………………○………………线………………○……………… 此卷只装订不密封 ………………○………………内………………○………………装………………○………………订………………○………………线………………○……………… ………………○………………外………………○………………装………………○………………订………………○………………线………………○……………… … 学校：______________姓名：_____________班级：_______________考号：______________________ 2026-2027学年高二英语选择性必修一单元自测卷 Unit 2 Looking into the Future 学校:___________班级：___________姓名：___________分数：___________ （时间：120分钟，满分：130分） 注意事项 1. 答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。 2. 回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上，写在本试卷上无效。 3. 考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。 第一部分 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和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 A Four top STEM toys worth considering There are many gift options for children. Here are four of the top toys that are not only entertaining but also help develop skills in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).Micro: bit Starter Kit Micro: bit Starter Kit is perfect for teenagers who are ready to take a deep dive into coding (编程). It comes with a temperature sensor, a motor, LEDs, a photocell, a small speaker and fan, switches, wires and other parts for users to run endless experiments. After gaining confidence in their skills, teens will have the freedom to create their own unique circuits (电路) beyond the guide’s examples. (Elecfreaks, $34.90) MBot In just 15 minutes from taking out the easy-to-build MBot from the box, 8- to 12-year-olds can have a programmable robot at their fingertips. Download Makeblock’s app, load the robot and its remote with batteries, and MBot can operate like a remote-control car. The app is packed with coding lessons that teach users how to program the robot to play music, follow lines, and avoid obstacles (障碍). (Makeblock, $99.99) Tale-Bot Pro Preschoolers can press the buttons on the top of this robot to program it. As the robot moves along the map and stops at different places, it strings together a story for the user to listen to. The toy, which supports ten different languages and features over 256 commands, teaches kids the basics of commands. (Matatalab, $99.99) AlphaBot Intended for 4- to 10-year-olds, this alphabet board book allows early readers to design their own robots while learning vocabulary that will carry over into their advanced STEM learning. Each colorful illustration of a robot part features the term — such as “neural network” or “Z-drive” — used to describe that part, along with an explanation of how the part functions. (MIT Kids Press, $14.99) 1. Which toy is most suitable for high school students? A. Micro: bit Starter Kit. B. MBot. C. Tale-Bot Pro. D. AlphaBot. 2. What do we know about these toys? A. Tale-Bot Pro can be used to share your stories. B. MBot can help children create a robotic car by hand. C. Micro: bit Starter Kit can be used to do chemical experiments. D. AlphaBot can help children learn vocabulary related to STEM. 3. What do the four toys have in common? A. They are fun but impractical. B. They are creative but expensive. C. They are classic and entertaining. D. They are interesting and educational. B A Humanoid Robot Set a Half-Marathon Record in China An autonomous robot ran a half marathon in 50: 26, beating the human record by 7minutes. The star performer was a robot developed by the Chinese company Honor, which finished the 13.1-mile race in 50 minutes, 26 seconds. The human record, set by Ugandan Olympic medalist Jacob Kiplimo, is 57 minutes, 20 seconds. Honor’s robot was not the only participant. The event consisted of more than 100 humanoid (人形的) robots from 76 institutions across China. The robots lined up alongside 12,000 human runners in Beijing’s E-Town, on separate route to avoid accidents. A humanoid robot is designed to copy the structure and movement of the human body, with legs, arms, and sensors that allow it to interact with its environment. In addition, many of the participating robots operated autonomously, meaning without direct human control. Thanks to artificial intelligence algorithms (算法), they could adjust their pace, maintain balance, and adapt to the land in real time. Obviously, the Honor robot that achieved the 50-minute mark operated autonomously. As expected, there were some accidents in the race. Some robots fell down, others changed the path, and several needed technical assistance along the way. While the physical performance of humanoid robots has advanced rapidly, their reliability is still developing. Of course, the laughter is no longer as frequent as they used to be, replaced by applause and exclamations of surprise. Just like the robots that went viral for their impressive martial arts display a few weeks ago, this long-distance race is part of a broader strategy by China to show its leadership in the development of advanced robots. However, it’s understandable that the image of a robot crossing the finish line in record time, ahead of human athletes, raises several questions. Is this the beginning of a new era in which machines redefine physical limits? 4. What do we know about the participants of the Half-Marathon? A. Robots and humans ran on separate routes. B. All robots completed the race without difficulty. C. The race was held mainly for top human athletes. D. Over 76 robots from different institutes participated in the race. 5. What is Paragraph 3 mainly about? A. The different types of humanoid robots in the race. B. The problems that humanoid robots face in races. C. The comparison between robots and human runners. D. The design and working principles of humanoid robots. 6. What is the author’s attitude toward the development of Chinese humanoid robots? A. Doubtful and worried. B. Uninterested and casual. C. Objective and positive. D. Critical and disappointed. 7. What does the last paragraph imply? A. Human runners may lose their passion for marathon sports. B. People start to reflect on robots’ impact on human physical limits. C. The public generally refuses to accept the robot’s racing achievement. D. Robots will definitely outperform humans in all physical competitions. C Imagine you’d like a pair of robotic arms fixed in your home simply to do one thing: fold clothes. How would it learn to do that? You could start by writing rules. Check the clothes to figure out how much force they can stand before being torn. Locate a shirt’s collar. Move the robotic hands to the left sleeve, lift it, and fold it inward by exactly the same distance. Repeat for the right sleeve. If the sleeve is twisted (扭曲), correct it. Very quickly the number of rules increases, but a complete accounting of them could produce dependable results. This was the original technology of robotics: expecting every possibility and programming it in advance. Around 2015, the most advanced robots started to do things differently: A digital simulation (模拟) of the robotic arms and the clothes was built, and the program received a reward signal every time it folded a piece of clothing successfully. This way, it got better by trying all sorts of techniques, with millions of repetitions — the same way AI gets good at playing games. Then the arrival of ChatGPT drove the further development in this field. Trained on large amounts of text, large language models (LLMs) worked not through repetitions and corrections, but by learning to guess what word should come next in a sentence. Similar models adapted to robotics were soon able to understand pictures, sensor readings, and the position of a robot’s joints and guess the next action the machine should take, sending dozens of motor commands (指令) every second. This change seems to work, whether the robot is supposed to talk to people, move through a space, or even do difficult tasks. And it is paired with other ideas about how to achieve this new way of learning, even if they aren’t yet perfect, so they can learn from the environment they’re meant to work in. 8. Why is the example of robotic arms folding clothes given in paragraph 1? A. To stress the advantage of robotic technology. B. To prove robots can manage daily housework. C. To introduce the working pattern of early robots. D. To show the shortcomings of pre-programmed robots. 9. What made robots advance around 2015? A. More timely corrections. B. Virtual training models. C. Popularity of AI-powered games. D. Easy access to quality data. 10. How do LLMs-adapted robots break previous technical limits? A. They finish tasks through repetition. B. They guess the following moves. C. They deal with data more smoothly. D. They respond to commands more quickly. 11. Which of the following can be the best title for the text? A. The Application of Digital Simulations B. The Limitations of Early Robots C. The Future of Large Language Models D. The Development of Robotic Learning D Many people with high blood pressure are asked by doctors to eat less salt. This is good for their health, but it is not always easy. Salt makes food taste better, and low-salt food often tastes boring. As a result, some people find it hard to keep a healthy diet for a long time. Now researchers in Japan have developed a pair of high-tech chopsticks that may help solve this problem. The chopsticks were made by a team from Meiji University and a food company called Kirin. They are part of a small electronic device (装置), so they look a little different from common chopsticks. The device does not add real salt to the food. Instead, it makes people feel that the food tastes saltier. In the first test, people using the chopsticks felt that the food was about 1.5 times saltier than before. How can chopsticks do this? The idea is not too difficult to understand. A very weak electric current(电流) goes from one chopstick to the mouth. It is so weak that people do not feel pain. The current changes the way salt in the food is felt by the tongue. As a result, low-salt food may taste more like normal food. To check whether the chopsticks really worked, the researchers invited 36 people aged 40 to 65 to take part in a test. All of them were trying to eat less salt. They tasted food with normal chopsticks and with the high-tech chopsticks. The result showed that most of them tasted more salt when they used the new chopsticks. Some even thought low-salt food with the new chopsticks tasted saltier than common food with normal chopsticks. The chopsticks are not being sold in shops yet. However, the early results are encouraging. For people who have to eat less salt but still want tasty food, this small invention may bring good news in the future. 12. Why did the researchers make the high-tech chopsticks? A. To make chopsticks cheaper. B. To help people eat less salt but still enjoy food. C. To teach people how to cook. D. To make food colder. 13. How do the chopsticks make food taste saltier? A. By adding real salt to the food. B. By changing the color of the food. C. By using weak electricity. D. By making the food hotter. 14. What does the underlined word “check” in paragraph 4 mean? A. Make sure. B. Give up. C. Take away. D. Write down. 15. What does the writer think of the chopsticks? A. They are useless. B. They are too dangerous. C. They are already common. D. They may be helpful in the future. 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。 The best ways to improve creative thinking When it comes to creativity, one of our biggest concerns is usually how we can be more creative, or how to come up with better ideas. I’ve gathered some of the most practical studies to help improve creativity. All of these studies are useful for everyday creativity.____16____ Embrace something absurd (荒谬的).____17____Absurd art makes the brain work extra hard for a moment when the mind tries to work out exactly what it is looking at or reading, which contributes to innovation to a large extent. I like reading interesting short stories like The Last Question when I am looking for some inspiration. Create when emotions run high. While many assume happiness is the key to creativity, recent research reached an important conclusion:____18____I’m not suggesting you put yourself in a bad mood to create something, but next time you find yourself in a strong emotional state, try sitting down and focus that energy on creating something. ____19____Some research suggests that exercise can actually improve creative thinking as well, due to its ability to get the heart pumping and put people in a positive mood.____20____In both cases, what matters isn’t the specific activity, but the positive emotional shift it creates. If you’re stuck in a creative job and want to take a break, try exercise while your brain is subconsciously at work. It may help to speed up your “Aha!” moment. A. Fuel creativity through workouts. B. Come up with more creative ideas. C. The more intense the emotion, the greater the creativity. D. Try a few out for yourself and see which ones work best for you. E. We are in two very different states of mind when we are trying to create something. F. Research suggests reading or experiencing such things can help improve creative thinking. G. It’s similar to how other research shows that thinking about love can produce more creative thoughts. 第二部分 语言知识运用（共三节，满分40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。 Jackie Faherty is a well-known astrophysicist (天体物理学家) and educator who devotes her life to researching mysterious objects in space. As a child, Faherty used to look up at the night sky and____21____. “Why are we here? What is this Earth?” Faherty____22____thought she could work in astronomy (天文学), for she thought it was a field____23____by men. Later, a movie featuring a female scientist____24____everything and set her on her astronomy career path. Now Faherty works at the American Museum of Natural History, where she studies objects in space —____25____, brown dwarfs. Brown dwarf, which is neither a planet nor a star, doesn’t have enough energy to shine____26____. Her work, including more than 180 peer-reviewed articles in astrophysics journals, has helped people____27____more about brown dwarfs. “One of the brown dwarfs called the Accident is probably the____28____one we’ve ever found,” Faherty says, “It came together around the same time our universe (宇宙) was forming.” Faherty and her team are working to understand what the Accident is made of. “I can use that information to try to understand the ‘____29____’ of planets,” she says. Faherty leads____30____programs at the museum, too. Visitors can attend her public talks. She shares the wonders of____31____with people of all ages, involving the public in exciting new discoveries in astronomy. Through her____32____and teaching, Faherty is expanding our knowledge about space and____33____the next generation of scientists. Her____34____to future astrophysicists? “You should work hard — but you should always have hobbies.____35____your interests. You should never just do one thing. Spread your brain. It makes you a better person.” 21. A. cry B. explain C. complain D. wonder 22. A. always B. never C. sometimes D. frequently 23. A. ruled B. built C. created D. founded 24. A. stressed B. changed C. missed D. covered 25. A. in particular B. in general C. in time D. in short 26. A. weakly B. faintly C. darkly D. brightly 27. A. understand B. doubt C. forget D. measure 28. A. oldest B. farthest C. heaviest D. brightest 29. A. colors B. shapes C. ingredients D. sizes 30. A. cultural B. educational C. medical D. traditional 31. A. museum B. education C. space D. teamwork 32. A. trip B. plan C. research D. dream 33. A. uniting B. representing C. serving D. inspiring 34. A. question B. story C. reason D. advice 35. A. Show B. Stop C. Vary D. Keep 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。 Popcorn may soon be moved from movie theater snack stands to the____36____(theater) walls. Scientists at the University of Gottingen have developed a method to turn popcorn____37____eco-friendly building insulation (隔热材料). The team says these materials could cut down on the use of less sustainable (可持续的) products to keep buildings warm and reduce heating costs. Good insulation in a building cuts down on the need to provide heat through oil and gas,____38____(result) in fewer CO2 emissions (排放). When it comes to what makes insulation eco-friendly, the team says these materials should include renewable raw materials, have good heat insulation, be resistant to fire, and be easy to recycle when the building____39____(eventual) comes down. In their experiments, the team successfully developed a new process for making a sustainable and efficient popcorn-based insulation board. Researchers managed____40____(create) a process that produces boards made of popcorn. Tests show____41____boards have excellent heat insulation properties and protect against fire very well. Study____42____(author) believe the biggest advantage popcorn insulation has is that it is a plant-based material: This____43____(make) it eco-friendly and a sustainable alternative to petroleum products and other industry plastics. Additionally, the team finds their popcorn boards do not take in water easily as well,____44____effectively stops them from getting wet and wearing out, possibly expanding their____45____(useful) and durability as a building material. 第三节 词语运用（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分） 根据句意及首字母、中文提示，用选择性必修一Unit 2所学单词的适当形式填空。（在答题卡上必须写出单词完整的正确形式，否则不给分） 46. The smart home records each family member’s p________, so it can adjust the lights and temperature differently for everyone. 47. The service robot must ________（服从）the safety rules before carrying out any household task. 48. When smoke is detected, the system sends a w________ to every phone in the house before the danger becomes serious. 49. The software is ________（不断地）updated to recognize new security risks. 50. Only information r________ to the user’s health should be shown on the medical screen. 51. The first driverless-car test failed; ________（尽管如此）, the engineers continued improving the system. 52. By learning the residents’ daily r________, the smart home can prepare breakfast and heating at the right time. 53. The emergency service will remain ________（可获得的）even if the home Internet connection stops working. 54. The energy-saving system f________ tomorrow’s electricity use after analysing a month of household data. 55. If an elderly resident falls, the floor sensors will ________（立即）contact the emergency centre. 第三部分 写作（共两节，满分40分） 第一节（满分15分） 56. 在学校刚举办的Sci-Tech Innovation design competition中，你设计的一款老人智能陪护机器人荣获一等奖。请以“My Intelligent Robot for the Elderly”为题写一篇英语短文，内容包括： 1.设计理由； 2.功能介绍； 3.你的期望。 注意：字数不少于100字。 My Intelligent Robot for the Elderly ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 第二节（满分25分） 57. 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。 Sheldon Cooper, a nine-year-old boy with a great mind, found himself in a difficult situation. His favorite scientific tool had broken, and replacing it required a large amount of money. His mother politely said, “If you want it, you will have to earn it yourself.” So, Sheldon started what he called “The Money Project” — using science to do the everyday job of delivering newspapers. As he had planned, Sheldon’s method was special. He spent days doing research. He studied the weight of the newspaper, planned the best delivery route using maps, and even found the best throwing angle for each house. His planning board was covered in notes and drawings, looking more like a complex puzzle than a simple job plan. On his first Monday, he left home with his prepared basket. The first challenge appeared immediately: the family bicycle was too large for him. After three failed attempts to ride it, he decided to walk, pulling the basket of newspapers behind him. But the basket was so heavy that he soon felt too tired to continue. He quickly thought of a solution. Using an old board, four wheels from broken toys, and some rope, he built a simple homemade cart. Now he could pull the papers easily. Then, the weather, Sheldon had assumed clear weather, turned out different from his forecasts. A light rain began to fall. Sheldon immediately covered the newspaper basket with the plastic he had prepared. This simple action prevented what could have been a real problem. Despite these little episodes (小插曲), his first deliveries were perfect, and he felt pleased. The final challenge came at 17th Elm Street. His goal was the welcome mat, but a large, sleeping dog was lying right on top of it. Sheldon knew getting closer was too dangerous. From where he stood, he could not throw the paper properly. He stood still, his carefully made plan falling apart before this unexpected problem. 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。 After a moment of panic, Sheldon’s scientific mind took over. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Weeks later, “The Money Project” finally paid off. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 试题 第3页（共10页） 试题 第4页（共10页） 试题 第1页（共10页） 试题 第2页（共10页） 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $ 2026-2027学年高二英语选择性必修一单元自测卷 Unit 2 Looking into the Future 学校:___________班级：___________姓名：___________分数：___________ （时间：120分钟，满分：130分） 注意事项 1. 答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。 2. 回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上，写在本试卷上无效。 3. 考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。 第一部分 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和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 A Four top STEM toys worth considering There are many gift options for children. Here are four of the top toys that are not only entertaining but also help develop skills in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).Micro: bit Starter Kit Micro: bit Starter Kit is perfect for teenagers who are ready to take a deep dive into coding (编程). It comes with a temperature sensor, a motor, LEDs, a photocell, a small speaker and fan, switches, wires and other parts for users to run endless experiments. After gaining confidence in their skills, teens will have the freedom to create their own unique circuits (电路) beyond the guide’s examples. (Elecfreaks, $34.90) MBot In just 15 minutes from taking out the easy-to-build MBot from the box, 8- to 12-year-olds can have a programmable robot at their fingertips. Download Makeblock’s app, load the robot and its remote with batteries, and MBot can operate like a remote-control car. The app is packed with coding lessons that teach users how to program the robot to play music, follow lines, and avoid obstacles (障碍). (Makeblock, $99.99) Tale-Bot Pro Preschoolers can press the buttons on the top of this robot to program it. As the robot moves along the map and stops at different places, it strings together a story for the user to listen to. The toy, which supports ten different languages and features over 256 commands, teaches kids the basics of commands. (Matatalab, $99.99) AlphaBot Intended for 4- to 10-year-olds, this alphabet board book allows early readers to design their own robots while learning vocabulary that will carry over into their advanced STEM learning. Each colorful illustration of a robot part features the term — such as “neural network” or “Z-drive” — used to describe that part, along with an explanation of how the part functions. (MIT Kids Press, $14.99) 1. Which toy is most suitable for high school students? A. Micro: bit Starter Kit. B. MBot. C. Tale-Bot Pro. D. AlphaBot. 2. What do we know about these toys? A. Tale-Bot Pro can be used to share your stories. B. MBot can help children create a robotic car by hand. C. Micro: bit Starter Kit can be used to do chemical experiments. D. AlphaBot can help children learn vocabulary related to STEM. 3. What do the four toys have in common? A. They are fun but impractical. B. They are creative but expensive. C. They are classic and entertaining. D. They are interesting and educational. B A Humanoid Robot Set a Half-Marathon Record in China An autonomous robot ran a half marathon in 50: 26, beating the human record by 7minutes. The star performer was a robot developed by the Chinese company Honor, which finished the 13.1-mile race in 50 minutes, 26 seconds. The human record, set by Ugandan Olympic medalist Jacob Kiplimo, is 57 minutes, 20 seconds. Honor’s robot was not the only participant. The event consisted of more than 100 humanoid (人形的) robots from 76 institutions across China. The robots lined up alongside 12,000 human runners in Beijing’s E-Town, on separate route to avoid accidents. A humanoid robot is designed to copy the structure and movement of the human body, with legs, arms, and sensors that allow it to interact with its environment. In addition, many of the participating robots operated autonomously, meaning without direct human control. Thanks to artificial intelligence algorithms (算法), they could adjust their pace, maintain balance, and adapt to the land in real time. Obviously, the Honor robot that achieved the 50-minute mark operated autonomously. As expected, there were some accidents in the race. Some robots fell down, others changed the path, and several needed technical assistance along the way. While the physical performance of humanoid robots has advanced rapidly, their reliability is still developing. Of course, the laughter is no longer as frequent as they used to be, replaced by applause and exclamations of surprise. Just like the robots that went viral for their impressive martial arts display a few weeks ago, this long-distance race is part of a broader strategy by China to show its leadership in the development of advanced robots. However, it’s understandable that the image of a robot crossing the finish line in record time, ahead of human athletes, raises several questions. Is this the beginning of a new era in which machines redefine physical limits? 4. What do we know about the participants of the Half-Marathon? A. Robots and humans ran on separate routes. B. All robots completed the race without difficulty. C. The race was held mainly for top human athletes. D. Over 76 robots from different institutes participated in the race. 5. What is Paragraph 3 mainly about? A. The different types of humanoid robots in the race. B. The problems that humanoid robots face in races. C. The comparison between robots and human runners. D. The design and working principles of humanoid robots. 6. What is the author’s attitude toward the development of Chinese humanoid robots? A. Doubtful and worried. B. Uninterested and casual. C. Objective and positive. D. Critical and disappointed. 7. What does the last paragraph imply? A. Human runners may lose their passion for marathon sports. B. People start to reflect on robots’ impact on human physical limits. C. The public generally refuses to accept the robot’s racing achievement. D. Robots will definitely outperform humans in all physical competitions. C Imagine you’d like a pair of robotic arms fixed in your home simply to do one thing: fold clothes. How would it learn to do that? You could start by writing rules. Check the clothes to figure out how much force they can stand before being torn. Locate a shirt’s collar. Move the robotic hands to the left sleeve, lift it, and fold it inward by exactly the same distance. Repeat for the right sleeve. If the sleeve is twisted (扭曲), correct it. Very quickly the number of rules increases, but a complete accounting of them could produce dependable results. This was the original technology of robotics: expecting every possibility and programming it in advance. Around 2015, the most advanced robots started to do things differently: A digital simulation (模拟) of the robotic arms and the clothes was built, and the program received a reward signal every time it folded a piece of clothing successfully. This way, it got better by trying all sorts of techniques, with millions of repetitions — the same way AI gets good at playing games. Then the arrival of ChatGPT drove the further development in this field. Trained on large amounts of text, large language models (LLMs) worked not through repetitions and corrections, but by learning to guess what word should come next in a sentence. Similar models adapted to robotics were soon able to understand pictures, sensor readings, and the position of a robot’s joints and guess the next action the machine should take, sending dozens of motor commands (指令) every second. This change seems to work, whether the robot is supposed to talk to people, move through a space, or even do difficult tasks. And it is paired with other ideas about how to achieve this new way of learning, even if they aren’t yet perfect, so they can learn from the environment they’re meant to work in. 8. Why is the example of robotic arms folding clothes given in paragraph 1? A. To stress the advantage of robotic technology. B. To prove robots can manage daily housework. C. To introduce the working pattern of early robots. D. To show the shortcomings of pre-programmed robots. 9. What made robots advance around 2015? A. More timely corrections. B. Virtual training models. C. Popularity of AI-powered games. D. Easy access to quality data. 10. How do LLMs-adapted robots break previous technical limits? A. They finish tasks through repetition. B. They guess the following moves. C. They deal with data more smoothly. D. They respond to commands more quickly. 11. Which of the following can be the best title for the text? A. The Application of Digital Simulations B. The Limitations of Early Robots C. The Future of Large Language Models D. The Development of Robotic Learning D Many people with high blood pressure are asked by doctors to eat less salt. This is good for their health, but it is not always easy. Salt makes food taste better, and low-salt food often tastes boring. As a result, some people find it hard to keep a healthy diet for a long time. Now researchers in Japan have developed a pair of high-tech chopsticks that may help solve this problem. The chopsticks were made by a team from Meiji University and a food company called Kirin. They are part of a small electronic device (装置), so they look a little different from common chopsticks. The device does not add real salt to the food. Instead, it makes people feel that the food tastes saltier. In the first test, people using the chopsticks felt that the food was about 1.5 times saltier than before. How can chopsticks do this? The idea is not too difficult to understand. A very weak electric current(电流) goes from one chopstick to the mouth. It is so weak that people do not feel pain. The current changes the way salt in the food is felt by the tongue. As a result, low-salt food may taste more like normal food. To check whether the chopsticks really worked, the researchers invited 36 people aged 40 to 65 to take part in a test. All of them were trying to eat less salt. They tasted food with normal chopsticks and with the high-tech chopsticks. The result showed that most of them tasted more salt when they used the new chopsticks. Some even thought low-salt food with the new chopsticks tasted saltier than common food with normal chopsticks. The chopsticks are not being sold in shops yet. However, the early results are encouraging. For people who have to eat less salt but still want tasty food, this small invention may bring good news in the future. 12. Why did the researchers make the high-tech chopsticks? A. To make chopsticks cheaper. B. To help people eat less salt but still enjoy food. C. To teach people how to cook. D. To make food colder. 13. How do the chopsticks make food taste saltier? A. By adding real salt to the food. B. By changing the color of the food. C. By using weak electricity. D. By making the food hotter. 14. What does the underlined word “check” in paragraph 4 mean? A. Make sure. B. Give up. C. Take away. D. Write down. 15. What does the writer think of the chopsticks? A. They are useless. B. They are too dangerous. C. They are already common. D. They may be helpful in the future. 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。 The best ways to improve creative thinking When it comes to creativity, one of our biggest concerns is usually how we can be more creative, or how to come up with better ideas. I’ve gathered some of the most practical studies to help improve creativity. All of these studies are useful for everyday creativity.____16____ Embrace something absurd (荒谬的).____17____Absurd art makes the brain work extra hard for a moment when the mind tries to work out exactly what it is looking at or reading, which contributes to innovation to a large extent. I like reading interesting short stories like The Last Question when I am looking for some inspiration. Create when emotions run high. While many assume happiness is the key to creativity, recent research reached an important conclusion:____18____I’m not suggesting you put yourself in a bad mood to create something, but next time you find yourself in a strong emotional state, try sitting down and focus that energy on creating something. ____19____Some research suggests that exercise can actually improve creative thinking as well, due to its ability to get the heart pumping and put people in a positive mood.____20____In both cases, what matters isn’t the specific activity, but the positive emotional shift it creates. If you’re stuck in a creative job and want to take a break, try exercise while your brain is subconsciously at work. It may help to speed up your “Aha!” moment. A. Fuel creativity through workouts. B. Come up with more creative ideas. C. The more intense the emotion, the greater the creativity. D. Try a few out for yourself and see which ones work best for you. E. We are in two very different states of mind when we are trying to create something. F. Research suggests reading or experiencing such things can help improve creative thinking. G. It’s similar to how other research shows that thinking about love can produce more creative thoughts. 第二部分 语言知识运用（共三节，满分40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。 Jackie Faherty is a well-known astrophysicist (天体物理学家) and educator who devotes her life to researching mysterious objects in space. As a child, Faherty used to look up at the night sky and____21____. “Why are we here? What is this Earth?” Faherty____22____thought she could work in astronomy (天文学), for she thought it was a field____23____by men. Later, a movie featuring a female scientist____24____everything and set her on her astronomy career path. Now Faherty works at the American Museum of Natural History, where she studies objects in space —____25____, brown dwarfs. Brown dwarf, which is neither a planet nor a star, doesn’t have enough energy to shine____26____. Her work, including more than 180 peer-reviewed articles in astrophysics journals, has helped people____27____more about brown dwarfs. “One of the brown dwarfs called the Accident is probably the____28____one we’ve ever found,” Faherty says, “It came together around the same time our universe (宇宙) was forming.” Faherty and her team are working to understand what the Accident is made of. “I can use that information to try to understand the ‘____29____’ of planets,” she says. Faherty leads____30____programs at the museum, too. Visitors can attend her public talks. She shares the wonders of____31____with people of all ages, involving the public in exciting new discoveries in astronomy. Through her____32____and teaching, Faherty is expanding our knowledge about space and____33____the next generation of scientists. Her____34____to future astrophysicists? “You should work hard — but you should always have hobbies.____35____your interests. You should never just do one thing. Spread your brain. It makes you a better person.” 21. A. cry B. explain C. complain D. wonder 22. A. always B. never C. sometimes D. frequently 23. A. ruled B. built C. created D. founded 24. A. stressed B. changed C. missed D. covered 25. A. in particular B. in general C. in time D. in short 26. A. weakly B. faintly C. darkly D. brightly 27. A. understand B. doubt C. forget D. measure 28. A. oldest B. farthest C. heaviest D. brightest 29. A. colors B. shapes C. ingredients D. sizes 30. A. cultural B. educational C. medical D. traditional 31. A. museum B. education C. space D. teamwork 32. A. trip B. plan C. research D. dream 33. A. uniting B. representing C. serving D. inspiring 34. A. question B. story C. reason D. advice 35. A. Show B. Stop C. Vary D. Keep 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。 Popcorn may soon be moved from movie theater snack stands to the____36____(theater) walls. Scientists at the University of Gottingen have developed a method to turn popcorn____37____eco-friendly building insulation (隔热材料). The team says these materials could cut down on the use of less sustainable (可持续的) products to keep buildings warm and reduce heating costs. Good insulation in a building cuts down on the need to provide heat through oil and gas,____38____(result) in fewer CO2 emissions (排放). When it comes to what makes insulation eco-friendly, the team says these materials should include renewable raw materials, have good heat insulation, be resistant to fire, and be easy to recycle when the building____39____(eventual) comes down. In their experiments, the team successfully developed a new process for making a sustainable and efficient popcorn-based insulation board. Researchers managed____40____(create) a process that produces boards made of popcorn. Tests show____41____boards have excellent heat insulation properties and protect against fire very well. Study____42____(author) believe the biggest advantage popcorn insulation has is that it is a plant-based material: This____43____(make) it eco-friendly and a sustainable alternative to petroleum products and other industry plastics. Additionally, the team finds their popcorn boards do not take in water easily as well,____44____effectively stops them from getting wet and wearing out, possibly expanding their____45____(useful) and durability as a building material. 第三节 词语运用（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分） 根据句意及首字母、中文提示，用选择性必修一Unit 2所学单词的适当形式填空。（在答题卡上必须写出单词完整的正确形式，否则不给分） 46. The smart home records each family member’s p________, so it can adjust the lights and temperature differently for everyone. 47. The service robot must ________（服从）the safety rules before carrying out any household task. 48. When smoke is detected, the system sends a w________ to every phone in the house before the danger becomes serious. 49. The software is ________（不断地）updated to recognize new security risks. 50. Only information r________ to the user’s health should be shown on the medical screen. 51. The first driverless-car test failed; ________（尽管如此）, the engineers continued improving the system. 52. By learning the residents’ daily r________, the smart home can prepare breakfast and heating at the right time. 53. The emergency service will remain ________（可获得的）even if the home Internet connection stops working. 54. The energy-saving system f________ tomorrow’s electricity use after analysing a month of household data. 55. If an elderly resident falls, the floor sensors will ________（立即）contact the emergency centre. 第三部分 写作（共两节，满分40分） 第一节（满分15分） 56. 在学校刚举办的Sci-Tech Innovation design competition中，你设计的一款老人智能陪护机器人荣获一等奖。请以“My Intelligent Robot for the Elderly”为题写一篇英语短文，内容包括： 1.设计理由； 2.功能介绍； 3.你的期望。 注意：字数不少于100字。 My Intelligent Robot for the Elderly ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 第二节（满分25分） 57. 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。 Sheldon Cooper, a nine-year-old boy with a great mind, found himself in a difficult situation. His favorite scientific tool had broken, and replacing it required a large amount of money. His mother politely said, “If you want it, you will have to earn it yourself.” So, Sheldon started what he called “The Money Project” — using science to do the everyday job of delivering newspapers. As he had planned, Sheldon’s method was special. He spent days doing research. He studied the weight of the newspaper, planned the best delivery route using maps, and even found the best throwing angle for each house. His planning board was covered in notes and drawings, looking more like a complex puzzle than a simple job plan. On his first Monday, he left home with his prepared basket. The first challenge appeared immediately: the family bicycle was too large for him. After three failed attempts to ride it, he decided to walk, pulling the basket of newspapers behind him. But the basket was so heavy that he soon felt too tired to continue. He quickly thought of a solution. Using an old board, four wheels from broken toys, and some rope, he built a simple homemade cart. Now he could pull the papers easily. Then, the weather, Sheldon had assumed clear weather, turned out different from his forecasts. A light rain began to fall. Sheldon immediately covered the newspaper basket with the plastic he had prepared. This simple action prevented what could have been a real problem. Despite these little episodes (小插曲), his first deliveries were perfect, and he felt pleased. The final challenge came at 17th Elm Street. His goal was the welcome mat, but a large, sleeping dog was lying right on top of it. Sheldon knew getting closer was too dangerous. From where he stood, he could not throw the paper properly. He stood still, his carefully made plan falling apart before this unexpected problem. 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。 After a moment of panic, Sheldon’s scientific mind took over. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Weeks later, “The Money Project” finally paid off. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 原创精品资源学科网独家享有版权，侵权必究！1 1 / 12 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $ 2026-2027学年高二英语选择性必修一单元自测卷 Unit 2 Looking into the Future （时间：120分钟，满分：130分） 第一部分 阅读（共两节，满分50分） 第一节 阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分） 1．A 2．D 3．D 4．A 5．D 6．C 7．B 8．D 9．B 10．B 11．D 12．B 13．C 14．A 15．D 第二节 七选五（共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分） 16．D 17．F 18．C 19．A 20．G 第二部分 语言知识运用（共三节，满分40分） 第一节 完形填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分） 21．D 22．B 23．A 24．B 25．A 26．D 27．A 28．A 29．C 30．B 31．C 32．C 33．D 34．D 35．C 第二节 语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分） 36．theaters’ 37．into 38．resulting 39．eventually 40．to create 41．the 42．authors 43．makes 44．which 45．usefulness 第三节 词语运用（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分） 46．preferences 47．obey 48．warning 49．constantly 50．relevant 51．nevertheless 52．routines 53．available 54．forecasted 55．instantly 第三部分 写作（共两节，满分40分） 第一节 应用文写作（满分15分） My Intelligent Robot for the Elderly As the population ages, the need for elderly care is increasing. My intelligent robot is designed to provide companionship and assistance to the elderly. It can chat with the elderly, tell stories, and play music to relieve their loneliness. It also has a monitoring function to detect the elderly’s health status and call for help in case of an emergency. Additionally, the robot can help the elderly with simple household chores such as cleaning and cooking, lightening their burden and improving their quality of life. I hope this robot can bring more warmth and convenience to the elderly and make their lives more comfortable. 第二节 读后续写（满分25分） After a moment of panic, Sheldon’s scientific mind took over. Noticing the low fence beside the steps, he quickly calculated the distance and the required throwing angle. He rolled the newspaper into a tight tube. With a precise underhand throw, he sent the paper sliding smoothly along the fence. It traveled in a perfect bend around the sleeping dog and came to rest right at the front door. A small smile appeared on his face as he continued his route, the crisis expertly solved through physics. Weeks later, “The Money Project” finally paid off. Sheldon placed his carefully saved money on the counter, receiving the long-wanted scientific tool. His mother’s eyes met his, shining with pride. As he held the tool, happiness filled him — not just for having it, but for earning it. This experience brought him a greater prize: strong belief in his own mind and the knowledge that some fortunes are earned not with money, but with effort and intellect. This was the real treasure, one that would only grow with time. 原创精品资源学科网独家享有版权，侵权必究！1 学科网（北京）股份有限公司1 / 2 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $