山西省榆次第一中学校2026-2027学年高二上学期10月阶段检测英语试题

榆次一中高二年级第一学期10月考试 英语试题 （测试范围：外研版高中英语选择性必修第一册 Unit 1 — Unit 3） （考试时间：120分钟 试卷满分：150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2B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。 3．回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试卷上无效。 第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分） 注意：听力部分答题时，请先将答案标在试卷上。听力部分结束前，你将有两分钟的时间将答案转涂到答题卡上。 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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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. What does the woman think of the comedy show? A. It was rather dull. B. It was very funny. C. It was hard to follow. 2. What does the man encourage the woman to do? A. Give up the contest. B. Keep trying. C. Change her topic. 3. What are the speakers mainly talking about? A. A basketball match. B. A training plan. C. A sports injury. 4. Why can’t the man watch the whole show? A. He has basketball practice. B. He dislikes comedy. C. He must finish his homework. 5. What are the speakers talking about? A. A doctor’s advice. B. The benefits of laughter. C. Reading habits. 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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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、7题。 6. What does the club mainly teach its members? A. How to write novels. B. How to create humour from daily life. C. How to act on a big stage. 7. What will David do at the end of the month? A. Give a five-minute performance. B. Leave the club. C. Attend a lecture. 听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。 8. How many times was Tom’s story refused before it was published? A. Ten. B. Eleven. C. Twelve. 9. What did the editor advise Tom to do? A. Write about real life. B. Change the story’s ending. C. Shorten his stories. 10. What does Tom do when his work is refused? A. He stops writing for a while. B. He writes a new story. C. He argues with the editor. 听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。 11. What is Lily preparing for? A. A basketball tournament. B. A school exam. C. A running race. 12. According to the coach, what matters most in basketball? A. Height. B. Speed. C. Reading the game. 13. What does the woman say about Stephen Curry? A. He was born with great talent. B. He improved through practice and self-belief. C. He was the tallest player on his team. 听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。 14. What is the professor’s lecture mainly about? A. The history of comedy. B. Why humans laugh. C. How to become an actor. 15. What does the professor say about shared laughter? A. It helps groups solve problems faster. B. It makes people more serious. C. It reduces the need for communication. 16. What kind of humour does the professor think works best? A. Clever jokes. B. Gentle self-deprecating remarks. C. Humour that laughs at others. 17. What does the professor consider the most important element of humour? A. Observation. B. Timing. C. Kindness. 听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。 18. What happened to Wang Lei during the race? A. He fell and hurt his knee. B. He stopped to help another runner. C. He was disqualified. 19. How did the audience react to Wang Lei? A. They laughed at him. B. They cheered and ran with him. C. They left the stands. 20. What does the speaker think is the true spirit of sport? A. Winning medals. B. Beating others. C. Refusing to be defeated by yourself. 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 Sunshine High School is holding its first “Laugh Out Loud Week” from 9 to 13 December. All events are free and open to every student. ● Stand-up Workshop (Monday 9 Dec. 4:00-5:30 p.m., Room 301) Local comedian Mark Yeung will show you how to turn everyday school life into comic material — the endless canteen queue, the unspoken rules of group projects, the strange language of the school notice board. You will write a short set and perform it for your classmates. No experience is needed; bring a notebook. ● The Science of Laughter (Tuesday 10 Dec. 12:30-1:10 p.m., Science Lecture Hall) Dr Chen, a psychologist, explains why human beings laugh long before they can speak, how shared laughter builds trust between strangers, and why ten minutes of genuine laughter can lower stress levels almost as effectively as light exercise. A short video of babies laughing will be shown. ● Comedy Film Night (Wednesday 11 Dec. 7:00-9:00 p.m., School Hall) Three short comedies chosen by the Film Society, followed by a ten-minute discussion: why is a scene funny in one culture but flat in another? Popcorn is provided; bring your own cushion. ● The Big Joke Exchange (Friday 13 Dec. lunchtime, Front Playground) Write your best clean joke on a card and drop it into the box outside the library. At lunchtime the cards are exchanged at random, and the student who makes the crowd laugh the loudest wins a hand-made “Golden Smile” medal. The judges are three teachers and one very serious cat. 21. Which event should a student attend to learn how to create comedy from school life? A. Stand-up Workshop. B. The Science of Laughter. C. Comedy Film Night. D. The Big Joke Exchange. 22. What will Dr Chen’s talk focus on? A. How to write jokes. B. Why laughter matters to human beings. C. How to produce a comedy film. D. How to win a medal. 23. What is special about The Big Joke Exchange? A. It requires previous experience. B. It lasts two hours. C. Jokes are exchanged at random. D. It is held in the School Hall. B For eight years, Duan Xiaomei has walked into the children’s ward of No. 1 People’s Hospital wearing a red nose, oversized shoes and a name that nobody believes: Dr Bubble. She is not a doctor. She is a “hospital clown”, one of a small but growing group in China trained to work alongside medical staff and to use humour to help young patients deal with fear, pain and long days of treatment. The work is far harder than it looks. Before entering a ward, Duan checks with the nurses about each child’s condition. She never enters a room uninvited, never jokes about illness, and never touches medical equipment. Her tools are simple: a balloon animal, a squeaky voice, a pair of sunglasses that can “see through” bandages. “The moment a child laughs, he stops being a patient for a few seconds,” she says. “That is when his body relaxes and the medicine works better.” Not every child responds. Some are too weak, some are angry, and some simply stare at the wall. Duan has learned to read these signals. With a teenager who refuses to speak, she may sit quietly and fold a paper plane, leaving it on the bed without a word. Hours later the plane sometimes comes flying back across the room. Her hardest lesson came early. In her first month she made a joke about a bitter medicine, and a five-year-old boy burst into tears. “I thought I was being funny,” she says. “I was actually reminding him of something he was trying to forget.” Since then she has kept one rule: humour must never be at the patient’s expense. Today Duan trains new clowns and keeps a notebook of “small victories” — a child who asked for her by name, a mother who smiled for the first time in a week, a boy who finally ate his lunch because the spoon had a face on it. “People think laughter is a light thing,” she says. “In a hospital, it is as necessary as the medicine.” 24. What is Duan Xiaomei’s job at the hospital? A. A children’s doctor. B. A ward nurse. C. A hospital clown. D. A cleaner. 25. What does Duan do before she enters a ward? A. She puts on her make-up. B. She checks each child’s condition with the nurses. C. She prepares the medicine. D. She asks the parents to leave. 26. How does Duan deal with a teenager who refuses to talk? A. She tells a joke in a loud voice. B. She leaves the room at once. C. She sits quietly and leaves a paper plane. D. She asks the doctor for help. 27. What lesson did Duan learn from the five-year-old boy? A. Children dislike bitter medicine. B. Humour must never be at the patient’s expense. C. Jokes work better on older children. D. Clowns should not enter children’s wards. C Most of us admire people who keep going when things fall apart, and we usually explain their success by saying they were born with willpower. Psychologists are not so sure. In a series of studies at Fudan University, researchers followed 320 first-year university students for two semesters. Students who reported higher levels of what psychologists call perseverance did not necessarily study for longer hours. What set them apart was the way they explained setbacks. When they failed an exam, they were far more likely to describe the cause as something they could change — a poor revision plan, too little sleep — rather than as a fixed lack of ability. This matters because explanation drives behaviour. A student who believes the problem is his strategy will rewrite his timetable; a student who believes the problem is himself will simply stop trying. The researchers also found that a short training programme teaching students to reframe failure as information closed almost half of the gap between the two groups within a single semester. Perseverance, then, is less a personality than a habit, and habits can be built. Three practices appear again and again in the research. The first is to make the next step small enough that it cannot be refused: ten minutes of revision rather than an entire chapter. The second is to keep a written record of past difficulties that were overcome, because the memory of failure is far more vivid than the memory of recovery. The third is to connect the goal to something larger than personal success; students who gave a reason beyond themselves — a family expectation, a wish to work in a rural clinic — reported far less desire to quit. None of this makes failure pleasant. But it does suggest something hopeful: the difference between giving up and going on is often not talent, but the story we tell ourselves about what went wrong. 28. What did the Fudan study find about students with perseverance? A. They studied for much longer hours. B. They were born with stronger willpower. C. They explained setbacks as something changeable. D. They never failed an examination. 29. Why does the way students explain failure matter? A. It drives their behaviour. B. It changes their intelligence. C. It decides their school timetable. D. It shapes their teachers’ attitudes. 30. Which of the following is one of the three practices mentioned? A. Setting as large a goal as possible. B. Keeping a record of difficulties overcome. C. Avoiding any kind of failure. D. Studying a whole chapter at one time. 31. What is the main idea of the passage? A. Perseverance is inborn rather than learned. B. Perseverance is a habit that can be built. C. Failure should be avoided at any cost. D. Talent matters more than effort. D When the International Olympic Committee added the word “Together” to its old motto in 2021, some people dismissed it as a slogan. In fact, the change points to something that sport has always known and modern life keeps forgetting: excellence is not a solo achievement. Consider the relay race. Four runners may each be faster than their opposite numbers and still lose, because the baton must be passed in a narrow zone, at speed, by two people who cannot look at each other. The race is won in the exchange. Coaches often say that a team of stars loses to a star team, and they are not being poetic; they are describing something measurable. Yet schools and parents increasingly reward the individual. Trophies go to the fastest child; the highlight video shows the scorer, never the player who drew two defenders away so that the scorer was free. Over time this teaches talented young athletes a dangerous lesson: that their teammates are background. Research on youth sport in Britain found that players who were praised only for personal statistics were more likely to have quit the game by the age of sixteen, while those whose coaches noticed defensive work and encouragement stayed in it far longer. None of this argues against ambition. The desire to run faster, jump higher and grow stronger is exactly what makes sport worth watching. But the motto’s original three words were never meant to describe a competition between runners; they describe a person’s struggle with his own limits. Adding “Together” simply makes the condition of that struggle visible. Nobody breaks a record alone. 32. What does the author say about the relay race? A. It is won mainly by the fastest runner. B. It is often decided by the baton exchange. C. It requires runners to look at each other. D. It is less popular than individual races. 33. What problem does the author see in youth sport? A. Too much attention is paid to individual achievement. B. Children are not trained hard enough. C. Coaches care little about winning. D. Teams have far too many members. 34. What did the research in Britain find? A. Players praised only for personal statistics often quit early. B. British teenagers are less athletic than before. C. Defensive work matters more than scoring. D. Coaches should avoid praising players. 35. What is the author’s attitude towards the change of the Olympic motto? A. Doubtful. B. Unconcerned. C. Approving. D. Critical. 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项。 It is easy to be funny when everything is going well. 36 Yet humour is often most useful exactly when life stops being amusing. Psychologists call this “coping humour”, and it is a skill, not a gift. Coping humour is not about pretending that a problem does not exist. 37 Instead of “This is hopeless”, you might say, “Well, at least the roof only leaks when it rains.” The difficulty is still there, but it has been moved from a wall to a door. Research suggests that this small shift matters. In one study, people who used gentle humour while describing a setback reported lower stress and were more likely to name a concrete next step. 38 They were also better company, which usually means that more practical help arrived. So how do you build it? Start by collecting, not creating. Keep a note on your phone of the things that made you smile — a friend’s small mistake, a badly written sign, your own burnt toast. 39 When you need it, you will not have to invent cheerfulness; you will simply remember it. Second, aim the joke at the situation, not at a person. Laughing at yourself is safe; laughing at someone else’s bad luck is not humour but cruelty, and it will cost you more than it gains. 40 A. Humour that hurts others is not humour at all. B. On bad days, read the list before you do anything else. C. It is about changing the size of the problem in your mind. D. They felt calmer and, more importantly, they acted sooner. E. Hard times are the best teachers of real courage. F. Being funny is a natural talent that very few people have. G. The trouble is that difficult moments are precisely when jokes seem to disappear. 第三部分 语言运用（共两节，满分30分） 第一节 完形填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分） 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 I was the shortest boy in my class and, for a long time, the only one who still wanted to play basketball. At the first training session of Senior 1, the coach measured us and then looked at me for a second longer than necessary. “The court is a big place for a small player,” he said. It was not 41 , but it was honest. I went home and told my father I was going to quit. He asked me one question: “Do you 42 the game, or do you just like the idea of winning?” I thought about it for a long time. The next morning I was back on the court at six. That year I did not play a single minute in an official match. What I did instead was 43 . I practised dribbling with my eyes closed until the ball felt like part of my hand. I studied how older players 44 space, how they moved without the ball, and how a well-timed pass could 45 a defender who was taller and faster than me. The change came slowly, then all at once. In a training game before the city tournament, the coach put me on for the last five minutes. My hands were shaking, but the years of 46 took over. I made two steals and 47 a three-point shot that surprised even me. After the match the coach said nothing. He simply 48 my shoulder. We lost the final by two points and I scored only four. Yet when I look back, that season taught me something no trophy could: ability is a 49 , but character is a choice. You cannot 50 how tall you grow, but you can decide how hard you work, how you treat your teammates, and whether you 51 when things go wrong. Years later I read about a professional player who was told he was too short and too weak to succeed. He became one of the greatest shooters in history — not by 52 his body, but by sharpening his skills and his 53 in himself. I smiled when I read it. I had met that story before, in a small school gym, at six o’clock in the morning, 54 nobody was watching and the only sound was a ball hitting the floor. That, I think, is what sport really 55 : not the medal, but the person you become while reaching for it. 41. A. encouraging B. reasonable C. interesting D. necessary 42. A. love B. watch C. know D. change 43. A. wait B. practise C. rest D. complain 44. A. waste B. measure C. leave D. use 45. A. beat B. follow C. confuse D. protect 46. A. practice B. luck C. fear D. anger 47. A. missed B. hit C. dropped D. kicked 48. A. patted B. washed C. examined D. covered 49. A. gift B. habit C. secret D. problem 50. A. decide B. control C. remember D. explain 51. A. give up B. show off C. set out D. turn back 52. A. examining B. hiding C. changing D. protecting 53. A. doubt B. pride C. interest D. belief 54. A. because B. when C. unless D. though 55. A. requires B. teaches C. proves D. rewards 第二节 语法填空（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。 The new film Once Upon a Time in the Middle East (欢迎来龙餐馆) starring Shen Teng is a big hit. It turns out to be quite touching, not just a comedy. It 56. ______ (make) over 200 million on its opening day. The story is about a Chinese chef 57. ______ (name) Xu Fu. He travels to a Middle Eastern city to run a restaurant. He wants to pay off his family’s debts (债务). When the war breaks 58. ______, he decides to protect the local children 59. ______ have lost their homes in the war. Xu Fu’s restaurant becomes a safe place for them. He also teaches them to cook, which gives them a warm feeling 60. ______ (direct). When Muey says the film is about Chinese people living abroad. They open restaurants and form close ties with local people. Eating a good meal with family is one of 61. ______ (important) things in life Food shows people’s wish for a peaceful life and war 62. ______ (see) as an act that destroys peace. Many people leave the cinema in tears. The film avoids big speeches. Instead, it tells the story through small acts of care. The film is 63. ______ (real) moving. It tells us 64. ______ peace is precious, and we should value the peaceful life we live today. Xu Fu’s story shows that even “small” and common people can make 65. ______ big difference in war. 第四部分 写作（共两节，满分40分） 66．应用文写作（满分15分） 假定今天你参加了学校举行的运动会。请你用英语写一篇日记，将你的参赛经历记录下来，并谈一谈感受。 注意：1．写作词数应为80左右；2．请按如下格式在相应位置作答。 Friday September 24, 2026 Fine 67．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。 I yawned (打哈欠) as I got off the last step of the bus. I had woken early that morning, and had not been able to sleep on the long ride from Riverside High, thinking about that day’s race, the Eye Opener. I had never raced in a state-wide race before. Over thirty high school teams ran, along with quite a few colleges. The rest of my team and I unloaded the bus, and we relaxed and waited for our race patiently. “Start warming up,” our coach told us, roughly forty-five minutes after we arrived. After finishing our stretches, we headed over to the starting line, eager for the race to begin. The starter walked to the middle of the field. “There will be two commands,” his voice boomed, “Runners set, then the gun. If you hear another shot, return to the starting line to start again.” My heart raced as I got my legs ready to race. “Runners set!” the starter shouted Bam! The gun fired, and he rushed out of our way. Adrenaline (肾上腺素) rushed through my body as I raced through the mass of runners. As I rounded the first turn, my schoolmates greeted me with heartening shouts. Then, in what felt like only one minute, I arrived at the one mile mark. “6’10”, a man declared as I ran by. I tried to ignore him, but my legs began to bum as I realized I had run a mile and still had two to go. I slowed down my pace, for I knew the second mile was the worst of all three. Minutes later, I felt horrible. My legs ached, feeling like lead blocks. My vision was clouded as sweat dropped down into my eyes, and my arms felt as if they would fall off if I swung them one more time. Just as I almost reached my limit, a boy passed me. He also seemed to have lost strength but soon he was a little ahead of me. 注意：1．续写词数应为150左右；2．请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。 Paragraph 1: I gathered up my strength to speed up but suddenly fell to the ground. Paragraph 2: In the last mile, seeing the athletes passing us one by one, I asked the boy to run without me. 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $