北京理工大学附属中学2026-2027学年高二上学期10月月考英语试题

2026北京理工大附中高二10月月考 英 语 第一部分：听力理解（共三节，20分） 第一节（共4小题；每小题1分，满分4分） 1. How many students visited the Buckingham Palace? A. Twelve. B. Ten. C. Six. 2. What is the man looking for? A. His pet. B. A picture C. His wallet. 3. What does the man like about his new apartment? A. Its location. B. Its price. C. Its size. 4. What does the woman think of the man? A. He is really positive. B. He is a good listener. C. He has a beautiful smile. 第二节（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分） 听下面一段对话，回答第5至第6小题。现在，你有10秒钟的时间阅读这两道小题。 5. What are the speakers mainly discussing? A. Changes of eating habits. B. Methods of raising animals. C. Health issues. 6. Why has the man stopped eating meat? A. To care about animals. B. To help the environment. C. To maintain good health 听下面一段对话，回答第7至第8小题。现在，你有10秒钟的时间阅读这两道小题。 7. Which place does the woman most want to visit in China? A. The Great Wall. B. A zoo with pandas. C. The Forbidden City. 8. Where would George prefer to live in China? A. In a hotel. B. In a local family. C. In a school dormitory. 听下面一段对话，回答第9至第10小题。现在，你有10秒钟的时间阅读这两道小题。 9. When did the man move to this area? A. In the spring. B. In the autumn. C. In the winter. 10. How big do ice balls usually get in this area? A. Half an inch wide. B. An inch wide. C. Two inches wide. 听下面一段对话，回答第11至第12小题。现在，你有10秒钟的时间阅读这两道小题。 11. Where is the man doing a project about the environment? A. At a bookstore. B. At school. C. At a lab. 12. What will the man do next? A. Solve the woman’s problem. B. Move some books. C. Do some reading. 听下面一段独白，回答第13至第14小题。现在，你有10秒钟的时间阅读这两道小题。 13. When did Steve begin his writing career? A. When he graduated from school. B. When he played out on the hill. C. When he moved to a new school. 14. What’s the main purpose of the speaker’s speech? A. To tell us he is very active. B. To sell his books. C. To tell us his life experience. 第三节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分6分） Treating Fellows with Kindness Introductions ● a health expert and 15. ________ from UBC ● 16. ________ experiences ● for a football team in Manchester ● for a very successful rugby team in Dublin ● … Problems ● people easily 17. ________ by advertisements ● people not willing to change their views about food and nutrition ● so much 18. ________ information online 第二部分：语言知识（共两节，30分） 第一节 语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，共15分） 阅读下面短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个适当的词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号所给词的正确形式填空。 A Edward O. Wilson, the “modern-day Charles Darwin”, damaged his right eye when he 19________ (catch) a fish in the river near his home at seven. The poor eyesight only allowed him to observe small creatures, like ants. Interested in the selflessness of ants, which would sacrifice 20. ________ (they) for their colony (群体), Wilson developed a theory, 21. ________ . (confirm) the existence of altruistic (利他的) behavior in a wide range of species. It made him influential as both a close observer and a pioneering theorist. B Faced with severe challenges, many athletes keep 22. ________ . (push) their physical and mental limits. Devoted to consistent training every day, they spend hours polishing their skills. Every effort 23________ (make) is valued, and every minor goal achieved brings them closer to victory. Hard work 24. ________ (require) if they aim to get to the top. Having experienced bitter failures, they never give up. C On October 12th, Shenzhou-14 crew members gave a live class to the students on Earth. During the class, the crew showed the students a science glove-box, 25. ________ the plants experiments are performed. Then, the astronauts had real-time interactions with students 26. ________ video calls and they answered students’ questions like “What kinds of plants 27. ________(bring) to space in future spaceflights?” At the end of the class, the crew said, “We expect you guys 28. ________ (build) our space home better in the future.” 第二节 完形填空（共10小题，每小题1.5分，共15分） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项涂黑。 It was an unexpected call for Aranza Delgado from the shelter, Peewee’s Pet Adoption World, 800 miles away in Texas. She was so pleasantly 29 when learning her dog “Puppies” was picked up by a passerby after it went missing four years ago. Since he was 30 , the shelter called the chip company and got the name and telephone number of his 31 . However, Aranza had a limited window of time, and could only come to pick up Puppies one week later. Ernie Cochran, a volunteer of the shelter, replied that they were more than 32 to provide the dog with a place to stay for several more days. “If we can get a dog back to his family, it’s a wonderful thing,” thought Ernie. Ernie and the other locals teamed up with a plan to get Puppies back home as 33 as possible. “Everybody has been amazing, from the shelter to the people who are helping me transport Puppies,” Aranza told Kris News. She was happy to be 34 with her old friend soon. “I didn’t 35 how friendly everybody in Texas was and how helpful they’ve been. I’ve had a lot of 36 . Actually, the lady that I’ve been in contact with is picking Puppies up tomorrow and she’s going to 37 him overnight and then will send him back home.” Although she may never completely know what Puppies went through during the four years, Aranza hopes that her story 38 the kindness of Texans. 29. A. surprised B. encouraged C. informed D. amused 30. A. found B. adopted C. chipped D. abandoned 31. A. owner B. shelter C. rescuer D. center 32. A. grateful B. willing C. excited D. patient 33. A. recently B. secretly C. early D. urgently 34. A. connected B. reunited C. associated D. concerned 35. A. understand B. forget C. admit D. wonder 36. A. requests B. troubles C. regrets D. messages 37. A. leave B. keep C. feed D. see 38. A. repays B. deserves C. inspires D. highlights 第三部分 阅读理解（共两节，15小题；每小题2分，共30分） 第一节（共10小题；每小题2分，共20分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A I was born missing my left arm. In 1986, at 18 months, I was fitted with a prosthetic (义肢) device, a decision made by my parents and doctors so that I would develop “normally”. I spent my entire childhood and adolescence trying to fit in. I did just about anything to ease the pains of the stares and pointing fingers from my classmates. By the time I was 8, I had no self-confidence, and the hand I was wearing was making it harder for me to fit in. So I decided I was better off without one. I didn’t need anyone to fix me. To prove that I wasn’t limited by my disability I developed a love for all sports. in particular swimming. I was selected to my first Australian women’s swimming team at age 13 and successfully represented my country for eight years. I realized I’d made a name for myself because of my disability. I taught myself how to be comfortable in a society filled with insecurities. So when I was first contacted in 2021 by Covvi, a company trying to create the world’s most advanced bionic (仿生的) hand, I was a bit surprised. They asked me to trial the hand and, if possible, to become a patient advocate. Initially, I said no. Then, curiosity got the better of me. While I was busy advocating for disability rights, a new generation of leaders, like Amy Purdy and Nick Vujicic. used the power of technology and social media to display wheelchairs or artificial limbs without explanation. People feared disability less. Society was beginning to see a person first, and their disability second. Viewing disability through a social lens also meant acknowledging that a person is more disabled by their environment and the discrimination of others than by their actual disability. As those conversations shifted, I realized that there was an opportunity to use technology to steer the narrative for future generations. In July 2022. I decided to trial the hand. The role of patient advocate is an enormous privilege. Through sharing my journey, I’m able to reach thousands of other people who would benefit from its extraordinary capabilities. That’s why I wear a bionic hand — not because I’m broken, but because I have an opportunity to enhance the human capabilities that already exist. 39. The author developed a love for all sports because__________. A. she was longing for fame B. sports gave her self-confidence C. she wanted to defeat her disability D. her prosthetic device empowered her 40. From Purdy and Vujicic, the author learned __________. A. more people acknowledged their limits B. the disabled needed a friendlier environment C. social media allowed the disabled opportunities D. technology shifted people’s attitudes to disability 41. Which of the following words can best describe the author? A. Intelligent and brave. B. Warm-hearted and patient. C. Responsible and strong-willed. D. Independent and innovative 42. From the passage, we learn that one should __________. A. maximize one’s abilities by embracing reality B. build one’s social circle with optimism C. stick to one’s goal to achieve success D. take it easy in difficult situations B We are constantly taught that acting early rather than procrastinating is the key to success, because “he who hesitates is lost.” When we have a meaningful task, we’re advised to get it done well ahead of schedule. When we have an original idea to invent a product or start a company, we’re encouraged to be the first mover. Recently, an unusually creative doctoral student named Jihae Shin approached me with an opposite idea: procrastination might be favorable to originality. I challenged her to test it. Shin asked college students to write proposals for a business on a university campus to fill a lot where there used to be a convenience store. When they started the task immediately, they tended to propose conventional ideas — like another convenience store. When Shin randomly assigned some of the participants to procrastinate, putting off the task to play games, they produced more novel business ideas, like a lecture center and a storage facility. Independent raters evaluated the final proposals, without knowing who procrastinated and who started immediately. The proposals from the procrastinators were 28 percent more creative. Although we were excited by these results, we were concerned that procrastination wasn’t the real cause of creativity. Perhaps it was playing games that provided mental stimulation, or that simply gave them a break away from the task to think. But the experiment showed that neither playing games nor taking a break enhanced creativity. When people played games first, before learning about the task, they didn’t submit more novel proposals. To do that, they needed to actually be procrastinating while playing games, keeping the business proposal task in the back of their minds. And when they started the task immediately and then took a break before returning to it, they had already made too much progress to start over afresh. In a classic study, marketing researchers Peter Golder and Gerard Tellis compared the success of companies that were either pioneers or settlers. The pioneers were first movers. The settlers were slower to launch. When Golder and Tellis analysed hundreds of brands in three dozen different product categories, they found a surprising difference in failure rates: 47 percent for pioneers, compared with just 8 percent for settlers. Even when the pioneers did survive, they only captured an average of 10 percent of the market, compared with 28 percent for settlers. Settlers are often branded as copycats, but this fixed impression of them misses the mark. Instead of following the existing demand, they wait for the right time until they’re ready to introduce something new. It’s true that the early bird gets the worm, but we can’t forget that the early worm gets caught. 43. According to the passage, Shin’s theory suggests that ________. A. being the first mover makes success more likely B. balancing working and having a break is important C. delaying a task can offer us time to think before acting D. people are less creative due to mental stimulation of games 44. What can we learn from the classic study? A. Pioneers set a perfect standard for settlers. B. Pioneers always win competitive advantages. C. Settlers’ success is the result of strategic timing. D. Settlers turned out to be incapable of innovating. 45. What is the main purpose of the passage? A. To emphasise the importance of acting early in success. B. To demonstrate procrastination can be a resource for creativity. C. To prove the effectiveness of our traditional belief in procrastinating. D. To compare the procrastinators’ creativity between recent and classic studies. C It is one of the biggest questions in environmental protection: Should we be sharing our landscapes with nature by restoring small woodlands and adopting small-size eco-friendly farming? Or should we instead be sparing large areas of land for nature — by creating more national parks and industrializing agriculture on existing farmland? The argument between ‘sparing’ and ‘sharing’ began decades ago. Leading today’s argument for the sparers is the researcher Beniamin Phalan, who believes that by producing more food per unit of farm area, more land would be available for wildlife. He looked at the relationship between crop yields and the number of bird and tree species in the forests in Africa and Asia, and found that biodiversity did best where intensified cropping left space for unfarmed habitats. He concluded that “most species will have larger populations if food is produced on as small an area as possible, while sparing as large an area of nature as possible.” Game over? Not so fast. A leading supporter of wildlife-friendly farming, Claire Kremen of the University of California Berkeley, has come out fighting. She says that Phalan’s findings “don’t assess the long-term consequences of isolating (孤立) species in protected areas.” Her research shows that “even very large protected areas will lose species if they remain isolated over time.” So in the long run, sparing won’t spare more land for nature conservation or feed the world for ever. To avoid mass extinction and ecosystem breakdown, we must integrate biodiversity protection into the landscape we use. So, sparing or sharing? In fact, agricultural intensification won’t deliver more land for nature unless there are tough rules to protect land not yet farmed. In the 19th century, more efficient coal-powered engines did not reduce coal burning but massively increased it by kick-starting the industrial revolution. Following that example, the result of agricultural intensification will probably be more land to be farmed. Nature does not recognize the boundaries of national parks. Whether migrating elephants in Kenya or monarch butterflies in North America, much nature exists in human-made agricultural landscapes. Recent research suggests that simply reserving land will remove all threats to very few species — only 3 percent in fact. So the potential to share the land without giving up nature’s last wild places is much greater than once thought. Like what Kremen says, “We can spare 50 percent and share the rest.” 46. What will the sparers probably agree with? A. Relying on birds to get rid of pests. B. Protecting insects by organic farming. C. Erasing the boundaries of national parks. D. Enlarging the size of naturally growing forests. 47. Why does the author mention the coal-powered engines in Paragraph 4? A. To analyse the consequence of the industrial revolution. B. To remind us of the possible risk of intensified cropping. C. To present an example of failure in environmental protection. D. To compare agricultural intensification with wildlife-friendly farming. 48. What is mainly talked about in the passage? A. How to quiet the argument about eco-friendly farming. B. How to balance environmental protection and agriculture. C. How to tackle the challenge of preventing ecosystem breakdown. D. How to reduce environmental damage caused by mixed agriculture. 第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，共10分） 根据短文内容，从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 An apology can achieve great things for both the givers and the receivers although nobody likes to admit that they were wrong. An apology is crucial to our physical health. When we acknowledge that we are wrongdoers and express our guilt to others, we will free ourselves from the uncomfortable state. This act feels like a weight on us has been lifted. 49. ______ Research showed that heart rate, sweat levels and facial tension decreased in victims of wrongs even when they simply imagined receiving an apology. Apologizing affects us not just physically, but also mentally. 50. ______ When presented with an apology, the victims may view us as imperfect human beings and find it easier to give forgiveness. In a powerful piece in Psychology Today, writer Beverly Engel described how a simple “I’m sorry” from her mother, after being estranged from each other for three years, made her relieved emotionally. But let’s be real, apologizing can be difficult. 51. ______ We should recognize our action did hurt someone even if our intention may not have been so. Instead of making excuses for what we did, try to bear responsibility and offer a promise to take action so that we will not repeat the behavior in future. 52. ______ Of course, the most effective apologies often bring a cost to our dignity, since we have to admit that we are wrong in front of others or many people. 53. ______ As is known, it is one of the most positive actions we can take when we do something wrong — for ourselves, the others, and the relationship. So, go ahead, apologize a little more often for the things worth apologizing for. A. There are agreed-upon ways to express our apology to others. B. It’s a way of showing the price we paid for the wronged action. C. A good apology affects the health of those on the receiving end, too. D. But this can often be minor compared to the benefits of a proper apology. E. This means we should take the blame and not try to justify it or explain it away. F. Apologize for what you did rather than what other people might have thought about it. G. It has the ability to disarm others of their anger and to prevent further misunderstandings. 第四部分 书面表达（共一节，20分） 54．假设你是红星中学高二学生李华。今年世界地球日的主题为“Planet vs. Plastics”，你校将举办相关活动。你的笔友Jim发来邮件，询问该活动的情况。请你用英文给他回复，内容包括：1．活动内容；2．你的任务。 注意：1．词数100左右 2．开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数。 Dear Jim, Yours, Li Hua 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $