重庆市彭水第一中学校2026届高三上学期第二次月考英语试卷

**基本信息** 本试卷以真实情境为载体，融合科技前沿（如离子风灭火技术）、环保议题（海洋保护）及跨文化旅行等素材，梯度设计合理，全面考查语言能力、文化意识及思维品质。 **题型特征** |题型|题量/分值|知识覆盖|命题特色| |----|-----------|----------|----------| |听力|20题/30分|日常对话与独白理解|情境贴近生活，考查细节抓取与推理（如机场场景、天气询问）| |阅读|20题/50分|科技、环保、跨文化等主题|A篇旅行书籍体现文化意识，C篇海洋问题分析培养批判性思维| |语言运用|25题/30分|词汇辨析、语法填空|完形填空以健身经历呈现生活化语篇，语法填空聚焦生育政策等社会热点| |书面表达|2题/40分|应用文写作与读后续写|发言稿考查语言表达，续写通过海滩遇险情境提升逻辑与创新能力|

彭水一中高2026届高三（上）第二次月考 英语学科试卷 本试卷分四个部分。满分150分，考试用时120分钟。 第一部分 听力(共两节，满分30分) 第一节(共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分) 听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。 1. Where are the speakers? A. In a hotel. B. In a travel agency. C. At the airport. 2. What has the woman been interested in lately? A. Basketball. B. Tennis. C. Cycling. 3. What does the woman imply? A. She has planned to cook dinner. B. She is too tired to prepare a meal. C. She might give up tidying the house. 4. What is the probable relationship between the speakers? A. Mom and son. B. Brother and sister. C. Husband and wife. 5. What does the woman probably mean? A. Keep the room in order. B. Throw away dirty clothes. C. Lay out dirty clothes on the floor. 第二节(共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分) 听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。 听第6段材料，回答第6和第7两个小题。 6. Where is Steve now? A. Vancouver. B. California. C. Shanghai. 7. What is the weather like in California now? A. Sunny. B. Cloudy. C. Rainy. 听第7段材料， 回答第8至第10三个小题。 8. What is the man's role in the conversation? A. An organizer. B. A gardener. C. A square worker. 9. How does the woman sound in the end? A. Confused. B. Satisfied. C. Surprised. 10. What will the woman do first? A. Water the crops. B. Sign up for the activity. C. Share the information with her friends. 听第8段材料， 回答第11至第13三个小题。 11. What is the woman doing? A. Conducting an interview. B. Hosting a ceremony. C. Holding a press conference. 12. What is Norman's company mainly dealing with now? A. Building toy trains. B. Constructing a bridge. C. Finding a business partner. 13. What do we know about the man? A. Tolerant. B. Sympathetic. C. Enthusiastic. 听第9段材料， 回答第14至第16三个小题。 14. What kind of training will Mike be responsible for? A. Market management. B. Digital marketing. C. Digital devices 15. What do we know about the working atmosphere? A. Stressful. B. Relaxed. C. Competitive. 16. How can Cindy learn additional knowledge? A. By attending online courses. B. By having access to online books. C. By receiving face to face training. 听第10段材料， 回答第17至第20四个小题。 17. Who is the club intended for? A. Office staff. B. University students. C. Senior high students. 18. What is the club's goal? A. To ensure students' academic success. B. To improve students' developer skills. C. To help students put forward new ideas. 19. What can students do in the club? A. Join workshops to work out creative solutions. B. Find out problems faced by local community. C. Set up more workshops across the UK. 20. When will the first meeting be held? A. On January 5. B. On February 4. C. On March 1. 第二部分 阅读(共两节，满分50分) 第一节(共15小题;每小题2. 5分，满分37. 5分) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。 A Adventure. New experiences. Interesting people. Read about other people’s exciting travels around the world with these three books. Is That Bike Diesel, Mate?: One man, one bike and the first Lap Around Australia on Used Cooking Oil by Paul Carter There are lots of ways to travel around Australia. You could do it by plane, train or car. But author Paul Carter decided to tour the country on a homemade motorcycle that runs on cooking oil. Why? the author worked in the oil industry for many years, and was keen to explore alternative fuels. So, he bought the unusual bike from a group of Australian university students (who had built it themselves)and set off. On route, he has lots of amusing experiences. He almost dies in a crash and he even attempts to break the land speed record for a motorbike running . You Are Awful (But I Like You) Travels Through Unloved Britain by Tim Moore Travel writers usually go to the best destinations. But not Tim Moore. In the book, Tim travels to the worst places in the UK. Follow him as he heads to “the bleakest towns, the worst hotels and the scariest pubs”. And to make matters worse, he does it in the middle of winter. “My primary challenge was to have a good time in places that everyone had said I wouldn’t,” said the author. And he does meet lots of quirky characters and discovers that even Britain’s ugliest parts have an inner beauty. Coasting: A Private Voyage by Jonathan Raban In 1982, author Jonathan Raban bought a boat and navigated Britain. And this is the book about his adventure. Along the way he gets caught in a few storms, explores seaside towns and even takes his aging parents along for part of the journey. Raban also uses his time at sea to think about how 1980s Britain is changing under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. 21. What is special of Paul Carter’s travel? A. He breaks the land speed record. B. He uses an unconventional fuel. C. His aging parents accompanies him. D. His motorcycle almost dies in a crash. 22. What challenge does TimMoore face while traveling in the UK? A. Searching for alternative fuels. B. Surviving heavy storms at sea. C. Enduring the freezing cold in winter. D. Enjoying himself in unattractive places. 23. What do the three books have in common? A They share practical travel advice for tourists. B. They compare different modes of transportation. C. They explore unique and challenging travel experiences. D. They offer alternative fuel sources and their applications. B For 15 years I read the books, took the courses and downloaded the apps to try to become a better person. Nevertheless, none of it helped. I was in my mid-20s when I fell into one of the most toxic relationships of my life. I remember buying my first self-help book, which promised I could be healed of anything. I devoured it in days and was hooked. Over the next 15 years, I bought hundreds of self-help books, courses and apps, and tracked down every self-styled personal improvement expert in the hope that they could teach me how to become happier, more confident and more lovable. Growing up in an environment of addiction and domestic conflict made me vulnerable to the industry’s promises of self-improvement. I believed self-help authors could be the instructors I had never found. My dependency became strong after my father died in 2022. I managed to spend an enormous amount of time reading about how to grieve well instead of doing the right things:sitting with my feelings, allowing myself to cry and processing the loss. My obsession (痴迷) with self-help had become toxic, and something had to give. It started to dawn on me that instead of helping me, the advice was making me feel worse. I talked with a loved one and recognized that in trying to change my life, I was trying to change things that were out of my control. Instead of focusing on who I wanted to become, I had to quit self-help to learn and accept who I really was. Spending time alone, often walking, and listening to my thoughts without trying to silence or change them helped. Since I quit my self-help cane, I’ve realized that focusing all my energy on improving myself can really suck the joy out of life. It makes happiness conditional:only when I look that way can I be loved. It can also stop me from unconditionally accepting my imperfectly perfect self. After a long time, I am finally coming round to the idea that perhaps I never needed fixing at all. 24. Why did the author become obsessed with self-help materials? A. To escape from her family. B. To overcome personal failures. C. To look for a way to kill time. D. To find guides to better herself. 25. What can we learn about the author from Para. 4? A. She often quarreled with her siblings in childhood. B. She became stronger after her father passed away. C. Her upbringing environment greatly influenced her. D. Her long time of reading helped her out of feeling bad. 26. What caused the author to quit her obsession? A. The death of her father. B. A conversation with a loved one. C. The suggestion from an instructor. D. An app on self-improvement. 27. What does the author want to convey in the text? A. Embracing the true self. B Focusing on the strengths. C. Seeking professional advice. D. Cultivating the positive thinking. C The ocean covers almost three-quarters of the planet. Were all the planet’s water placed over the United States, it would form a column of liquid 132km tall. The ocean provides 3bn people with almost a fifth of their protein (making fish a bigger source of the stuff than beef). Climate and weather systems depend on the temperature patterns of the ocean and its interactions with the atmosphere. If anything ought to be too big to fail, it is the ocean. Humans have long assumed that the ocean’s size allowed them to put anything they wanted into it and to take anything they wanted out. However, changing temperatures and chemistry, overfishing and pollution have stressed its ecosystems for decades. The ocean stores more than nine-tenths of the heat trapped on Earth by greenhouse-gas emissions. Consequently, coral reefs are suffering. Scientists expect almost all corals to be gone by 2050. By the middle of the century the ocean could contain more plastic than fish by weight. Ground down into tiny pieces, it is eaten by fish and then by people, with uncertain effects on human health. Nevertheless, appetite for fish grows: almost 90% of stocks are fished either at or beyond their sustainable limits. The ocean nurtures humanity. Humanity treats it with contempt. Such self-destructive behavior demands explanation. Unarguably, the ocean being subject to a series of laws and agreements, enforcement is hard. Apart from this, two reasons stand out. One is geography. The bulk of the ocean is beyond the horizon and below the waterline. The damage being done to its health is visible in a few liminal places. But for the most part, the sea is out of sight and out of mind. It is telling that there is only a single fleeting reference to the ocean in the Paris agreement on climate change. Second, the ocean is a victim of other bigger processes. The emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere is changing the marine environment along with the rest of the planet. The ocean has warmed by 0. 7℃ since the 19th century, damaging corals and encouraging organisms to migrate towards the poles for cooler waters. Greater concentrations of carbon dioxide in the water are making it more acidic, harming creatures such as crabs and oysters, whose calcium carbonate shells suffer as marine chemistry alters. 28. What is paragraph 1 mainly about? A. The vastness of the ocean. B. The significance of the ocean. C. The ecosystem of the ocean. D. The climate of the ocean. 29. How does the author convey his message in paragraph 3? A. By listing current problems. B. By providing research data. C. By citing expert opinions. D. By comparing different ecosystems. 30. Why does the author mention “the Paris agreement on climate change” in paragraph 4? A. To show people often disobey it. B. To tell us people seldom refer to it. C. To remind us the ocean is vital to man. D. To prove ocean protection is overlooked. 31. What will the author probably write next? A. How to tap into the ocean. B. How to research into the ocean. C. How to rise to the challenges of the ocean. D. How to raise people’s environmental awareness. D Fighting fires usually uses water or foam, but these can make a mess and harm the surroundings. To address this, engineers at Ohio State University have now made handheld tools that put out fires cleanly with “ionic（离子的）wind” and vortex（涡流）rings. If you’ve ever blown out a birthday candle, you’ll know that a quick burst of air can be enough to put out a flame. It works by separating the heat from the fuel so it can't start again. But blowing on a campfire doesn't help— it's too big, and you just add oxygen. The new device is like a bigger version of the birthday candle trick. First, it shoots a vortex ring of air that creates wild airflow to split heat and fuel. At the same time, the vortex carries tiny conductive particles（导电颗粒）that ionize the air and make even more vortex. In practice firefighters would aim this handheld tool at a fire and shoot these “ionic wind” rings to put it out. That would also reduce the expense and cleanup. “Using ionic wind and vortex ring technology, we found a more efficient way to solve an environmental problem that will improve lives,” lead researcher John Larocco said. One of the biggest advantages of this device is that it allows firefighters to put out flames from a safer distance, reducing the risk of injury. Since vortex rings can carry chemicals over long distances, firefighters wouldn’t need to get dangerously close to fires. Much more work still needs to be done, however. For one thing, the devices were tested on groups of candles, which aren't like real house or forest fires. Testing them against more realistic fires is a priority for future experiments. Still, the team thinks this technology could really work in the real world. The researchers also believe this device could be improved with smart sensors and image analysis, making it more precise in detecting different types of fires. Beyond firefighting, this technology could have future applications in aerospace and industrial safety. 32. Why did engineers at Ohio State University invent the new handheld tools? A. To take full advantage of water and foam. B. To enhance firefighters' professional skills. C. To abandon traditional firefighting methods. D. To reduce the rescue damage to environment. 33. What does the author try to illustrate by mentioning the birthday candle in paragraph 2? A. The principle of putting out a flame by air. B. The efficient way to blow out a birthday candle. C. The difference between a small flame and a campfire. D. The reason why blowing on a campfire doesn't work. 34. Why can the new device lower the risk of injuries? A. It creates stronger wind than other tools. B. It absorbs harmful substances in the smoke. C. It enables users to stay farther from the fire. D. It allows firemen to avoid using chemicals. 35. What is the researchers’ expectation for the new device? A. It will prevent all types of fire. B. It will reform the aerospace industry. C. It will be more intelligent and accurate. D. It will be widely used by ordinary people. 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。 Life is filled with numerous victories and downfalls; what matters is how you tackle each situation. Whether it is your schooling or a serious life struggle, we must learn to turn the page and change our life for the better. ____36____ You might find yourself in a dead end. ____37____ This will help you mark your future decisions. Everything that you faced until now was just a part of the problem and everything that comes after the line will be part of the solution. Don’t take the whole thing as suffering; instead, it is a learning experience. Make sure that you won’t let anything hold you back and will try to be better each day. When handling a tough situation, you may need some extra help. Connect with people that have gone through the same trials as you have. During the interactions, you will notice the different patterns which made them successful. ____38____ Their experiences are beneficial to uplifting your spirit and truly help you out. Another amazing approach is to make sensible and favorable choices for yourself. Engaging in battles and struggles is going to be very hard. ____39____ Picture your goals in your mind and make sensible steps towards them with each passing day. Remember to do what actually works and make sure that nothing stands in your way. The past is a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny. Life moves on and so should we. ___40___ The new chapter of your life is coming for you. A. Now it’s your turn to think outside the box. B. We must forgive ourselves to begin the next chapter. C. Here’ s how you can create a new chapter in your life. D. What you can do in this situation is draw a mental line. E. However, giving up and being stuck in pain will be even harder. F. Let your tears and sweat water the seeds of your future happiness. G. Besides, you will obtain the motivation you can’t find in yourself. 第三部分 语言运用 (共两节，满分 30 分) 第一节 (共 15 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 15 分) For my 65th birthday, my wife purchased a week of personal training for me. Although I am still in 41, I decided to give it a try. I called the club and made my 42 with a personal trainer named Belinda, who identified herself as a 26 year - old aerobics (健美操) instructor. My wife seemed pleased with my 43 to get started! MONDAY Started my day at 6:00 a.m. 44 to get out of bed, but found it was well worth it when I arrived at the health club to find Belinda waiting for me. She took my pulse after five minutes on the treadmill and was 45 that my pulse was so fast, but I 46 it to her presence. Belinda was encouraging as I did my sit - ups, although my stomach was already aching from 47 it in the whole time she was around. TUESDAY I drank a whole pot of coffee, but I finally 48 it out the door. My legs were a little shaky on the treadmill, but I made the full mile. Belinda's rewarding smile made it all ____49__. WEDNESDAY Belinda was impatient with me, insisting that my screams 50 other club members. THURSDAY Belinda took me to 51 with dumbbells. When she was not looking, I ran and hid in the men's room. FRIDAY If there was a part of my body I could move without 52 pain, I would beat her with it. SATURDAY Belinda left a message on my answering machine in her sharp voice wondering why I did not show up today. Just hearing her made me want to 53 the machine. However, I lacked the strength to even use the TV remote and 54 watching eleven straight hours of the Weather Channel. SUNDAY I'm having the 55 van pick me up for services today so I can go and thank God that this week is over. 41. A. size B. power C. shape D. control 42. A. connection B. reservation C. peace D. bargain 43. A. reluctance B. caution C. enthusiasm D. pessimism 44. A. Tough B. Glad C. Ambitious D. Unfair 45. A. depressed B. amazed C. delighted D. alarmed 46. A. owed B. explained C. preferred D. called 47. A. pushing B. pulling C. holding D. pressing 48. A. took B. forgot C. hated D. made 49. A. complete B. worthwhile C. complicated D. extreme 50. A. amused B. satisfied C. saddened D. bothered 51. A. cool down B. work out C. dance around D. get by 52. A. unbearable B. manageable C. incurable D. desirable 53. A. unplug B. fix C. crush D. treasure 54. A. gave up B. ended up C. admitted to D. put off 55. A. hospital B. company C. club D. church 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。 Our government has raised the child limit for couples from two to three as the country experiences lower birth rates. For many years, China applied a one-child policy as a way ____56_____(control) the population. But that policy _____57_____(replace) in 2016 with a two-child limit. That change was aimed at raising the number of births. ______58____, birth rates have further decreased in recent years as the cost of raising children in Chinese cities remains high. The latest measure to permit three children per family is meant “to ____59_____(active) deal with the aging population,” the official Xinhua News Agency reported. The policy includes_____60____ the government calls “supportive measures” to make it easier for families to have more children. The measures include plans to lower educational costs for families and increase tax and housing support. The government also said it would seek to educate young people “on _____61____(marry) and love.” Yifei Li, _____62_____sociologist at New York University Shanghai, said that most families did not plan to have more children in recent years due _____63____ “the incredibly high costs of raising children in today’s China”. Another problem was that women carried most of the responsibility for raising children. Economists say that China, along with Thailand and some other Asian economies, _____64_____(face) concerns that it could grow old before it gets _____65____(wealth). The Chinese population of 1.4 billion was already expected to reach a high later this decade before starting to drop. But recent government data suggested that is happening faster than expected. 第四部分 书面表达（共两节，满分40分） 第1节 应用文写作（满分15分） 假定你是李华，在上周的英语读后续写写作大赛中获得了第一名。为此，学校沙龙邀请你作相关写作分享，请写一篇发言稿，内容包括： 1. 获奖感受； 2. 写作建议。 参考词汇：continuation writing 注意： 1.词数80左右；2.请按如下格式在答题纸的相应位置作答。 Dear Fellow Students: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Thank you! 第二节 读后续写（满分25分） 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。 “If mum finds out that I’m going to the beach, I’ll be in big trouble.” I said to myself in a low voice. I went downstairs slowly and tried to walk casually into the kitchen. As I was walking towards the back door, mum asked without looking up from her dish-washing, “Where are you going?” I answered back without hesitation, “I am going to the garden to play.” After I got out of the kitchen, I breathed a sigh of relief. My plan had worked out fine so far. I climbed the fence and jumped onto the muddy field next to my house and started running towards the bus stop at top speed. After half an hour I was at the beach scanning the crowd for my friends, Jimmy and Bob. I spotted two young men racing in the canoes(独木舟) in the sea. After a while, I saw my friends near a coconut tree. I ran towards them. For about an hour, we played volleyball happily. Suddenly, Bob hit the ball too hard and the ball fell into the sea. Just as Bob was going to pick up the ball, the tide came in and carried the ball further and further away from the shore. I wanted to show off my swimming skills so I declared to help get the ball for them. I dived into the water and started swimming at a steady pace. After swimming for about ten minutes, I became tired but when I saw that the ball was only a few feet away from me, I put in an extra burst of speed. However, just as I was going to get the ball, a very strong current swept the ball further away from me. At that moment, a string of weed(海草) tangled(缠绕) up with my feet and I could not swim properly. I struggled to keep afloat but it was no use. “If I had listened to my parents, this would never have happened,” I thought silently. Paragraph 1: Finally, after struggling for a minute or two, I still got pulled underwater. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Paragraph 2: When I woke up, I was in an empty room lying on a bed. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $