广东省广州市南武中学2026-2027学年高二上学期10月阶段检测英语试题

广州市南武中学2026-2027学年第二学期高二综合测试（一） 英语试题 （考试时间：120分钟 满分：120分） 注意事项： 1．答题前填写好自己的姓名、班级、考号等信息 2．请将答案正确填写在答题卡上 第一部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分50分） 第一节（共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。 一、阅读理解 A National Gallery of Art Admission Admission is always free. You don’t need passes or tickets to enjoy our galleries, exhibitions, or guided tours. Some events require free registration. Hours ●Open daily 10:00 a. m.-5:00 p. m. ●Sculpture Garden open until 8:00 p. m. Wednesday — Saturday (except on select Fridays during Jazz in the Garden) ●Closed on December 25 and January 1 Getting here Access to the museum may be affected by nearby events throughout the summer. We recommend taking public transportation and giving yourself extra time. There’s no parking garage on our campus, though we set aside a limited number of parking spaces for vehicles with disability parking permits or tags. Please visit dc250.us for specific information about events that could impact your visit. What to see Two buildings, one garden — yours to explore and always free. ●West Building Here you’ll find works from the 11th through the early 20th century. Opened in 1941, this first National Gallery building was architect John Russell Pope’s last design. The domed rotunda in its center is based on the interior of the Pantheon in Rome. ●East Building Discover our collection of modern and contemporary art. Opened in 1978, the light-filled building is considered one of I. M. Pei’s most ambitious designs. Look for the many triangles in its architecture. ●Sculpture Garden Wander through this 6.1-acre oasis (绿洲) in the heart of the city. It’s a peaceful setting for large-scale works of modern sculpture. 1. When is the East Building probably open? A. At 8:00 p. m. on Fridays. B. At 11:00 a. m. on January 10. C. At 7:00 p. m. on Wednesdays. D. At 4:00 p. m. on December 25. 2. What is special about West Building compared with the other two galleries? A. Its design is more ambitious. B. It houses large-scale sculptures. C. It has a wider variety of artworks. D. Its artworks date from an earlier period. 3. Which section of the official website is the text probably from? A. Exhibitions. B. Contact Us. C. Plan Your Visit. D. Today’s Tours. B When I was 10, I was caught in a lie. I stubbornly denied breaking a window in my neighbor’s barn, but my parents knew I had done it. In those days, a broken window was a big deal, and I was close to miserable. Then Uncle Jim arrived. He never raised his voice or rushed. Riding beside him in his old green car, I kept glancing at him nervously. I could see a confused smile at the corner of his mouth. “Telling the truth is always easier.” he said out of the blue. He grinned at me. “So it’s perfect for a lazybone like you and me.” That was it — no lecturing, no scolding. My uncle began to hum (哼歌), and I was awash in relief. Not long after, I spotted a pair of brown leather gloves on the windowsill in the post office. Old Mrs Jameson had come in wearing them and left barehanded. I tried them on. They were perfect. That night, my conscience troubled me. The truth is easier for a lazybones. The next day, I returned the gloves. A month later, Mrs Jameson sent me a new pair with a note of thanks. When Uncle Jim asked where I got them, I told him the story. “See?” he said, delighted. Uncle Jim taught me far more than that. One August day, we were fishing in a small boat. I was a bit down at our slow pace. He said speed was fine if you wanted to go fast, but slowing down made any journey less of a blur. “It helps you focus,” he said. I thought of that decades later when he was dying, in his 82nd year. Was he seeing more, even as he slowed? Uncle Jim was an observer who touched those he loved by sharing what he saw. Some things I understood quickly, but others took decades to become clear. Be honest, be brave, look around and slow down — the words were never spoken, but the message always got through. 4. How did Uncle Jim react to the author’s lie? A. He let the lie slide. B. He offered mild guidance. C. He delivered a long lecture. D. He gave a severe punishment. 5. Why did Mrs Jameson send the author a new pair of gloves? A. She knew he was fond of gloves. B. She had extra gloves to give away. C. Her old gloves no longer fitted her. D. She intended to reward his honesty. 6. What does the underlined phrase “less of a blur” in paragraph 4 mean? A. Less boring. B. Less risky. C. More exciting. D. More apparent. 7. What is the main message of the passage? A. Truth does not need to be spoken. B. The elder always give wise advice. C. Honesty and patience matter in life. D. Mistakes are unavoidable for children. C For humans, the sound of rain is often calming, but for plants, it works like an alarm clock. When raindrops hit the ground or water, the vibrations below the surface are much stronger than those above. New research suggests that plants have learned to use this signal to their advantage. A study in Scientific Reports shows that rice seeds sprout (发芽) faster when they are exposed to the sound of rain. The researchers say this is the first direct evidence that plants can sense and respond to sound. They believe seeds from other plants may behave the same way. Nicholas Makris, the lead researcher from MIT, calls this effect “unusual and odd.” He says such a discovery could only be made by scientists working across various disciplines — acoustics and plant biology. For years, scientists have wondered how much plants can sense in the world around them. Some studies suggest plants might even “see” or “think,” but few have shown a direct link between a specific event and the plant’s immediate reaction. This new study focuses on the connection between sound and sprouting. In plants, cellular structures called statoliths are responsible for external sensing. Shifting at the bottom of these structures is starch (淀粉), which helps plants to detect changes in their position and tell seeds in which direction to grow their roots. The researchers theorized that rain sounds underwater could shake these statoliths enough to speed up sprouting in rice seeds. The scientists exposed about 8,000 rice seeds in water — their preferred growing condition — to rain sounds. Another group of seeds was kept in quiet conditions, with everything else the same. The results were striking: the seeds that “heard” rain sprouted 30 to 40 percent faster than seeds that were kept in quiet but otherwise similar conditions. Heidi Appel, a biologist not involved in the study, says this is an important step forward. She praises it as the first work to carefully measure how raindrops’ vibrations affect seeds in a realistic way. The researchers hope their finding will encourage other scientists to explore how plants respond to natural sounds like wind or insect noises. This study not only deepens our knowledge of plants but also opens new doors for understanding how they interact with their environment. 8. What does the Scientific Reports study confirm? A. Most plant seeds are sensitive to rainfall. B. Rain sounds can speed rice seeds’ sprouting. C. Plants send out signals to sense raindrops. D. Rice seeds favour vibrations below the surface. 9. What can we infer from the third paragraph? A. The research on plants’ hearing has a long history. B. That plants can “see” or “think” has been well proved. C. The discovery requires joint efforts from different fields. D. Scientists have denied plants’ immediate reaction to events. 10. Which statement is true about statoliths and the experiment? A. Statoliths are produced when seeds hear raindrops. B. The experiment discovered plants sprouted faster in quiet conditions. C. Statoliths are responsible for internal sensing. D. The experiment has revealed amazing findings. 11. It can be expected that follow-up studies will ________. A. cover more varieties of natural sounds for plant-response tests B. deepen research into how rainfall affects the growth of various plants C. clarify how statoliths sense external changes inside plant cells D. focus on increasing the seeds’ sprouting speed through sound stimulation D AI systems are often described as “brain-like” because they can predict activity in parts of the brain that help us recognize objects. Until now, scientists mostly tested this in one direction. Researchers from York University wanted to determine whether these systems truly operate like biological vision. The researchers reversed (反向开展) that familiar test. If AI genuinely reflects the brain, they reasoned, then recorded brain activity should also predict the model’s internal responses. The researchers tested the models with 1,320 natural photographs and realistic synthetic (合成的) images. The set included bears, elephants, faces, apples, cars, dogs, chairs, planes, birds, and zebras shown against indoor, outdoor, and other natural backgrounds. They also used 300 additional images describing the same objects in changed forms, including outlines, drawings, simplified representations, and artistic variations. This broader range helped test whether the relationship between brain activity and AI features held across different visual styles. “The results were striking. While AI models can predict the neuron (神经元 we recorded inthe brain fairly well, the reverse is not true. Interestingly, this is not the case when neurons from one brain are compared against ones from another brain, and the one-sided imbalance disappears,” says York University Assistant Professor Kohitij Kar. This imbalance suggests that AI models may reach correct visual answers through processes that differ from those used by the brain. Kar warns that the mismatch could widen as models become more complex. If an AI model predicts neurons but its own internal features cannot be predicted from neural activity, it may not provide a reliable explanation of how the brain works. Researchers increasingly use AI models to design studies of human behavior, including clinical research. Much of that work assumes the systems process the world like the brain. More accurate brain-like models could eventually support research involving conditions related to the brain. For now, however, using systems that do not match brain function well to interpret human behavior carries risks. Comparable models are also being applied to hearing, language and movement, making reliable testing important across several fields. 12. What did most previous studies focus on concerning AI models? A. How the brain genuinely reflected them. B. How they were integrated into the brain. C. Whether they could predict brain activity. D. Whether they took control of the neurons. 13. What does the brain fail to do in the reverse test? A. Recognize objects in natural photographs. B. Process visual information like AI models. C. Forecast neurons from another similar brain. D. Equally predict AI models’ internal features. 14. Why is clinical research mentioned in paragraph 6? A. To doubt the reliability of current AI models. B. To highlight the significance of the reverse test. C. To sing high praises for technological advances. D. To prove the similarity between AI and the brain. 15. What can be a suitable title A. A Novel Test on Advanced AI Models B. Brain-Like AI Models Matter in Research C. AI Models May Not Think Like the Brain D. A Way to Improve AI’s Prediction Accuracy 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。 Why are there penguins living outdoor in summer? The OZEANEUM in northern Germany has a rocky pool on its rooftop. Every now and then, a fluffy brown-and-white head comes out from one of the artificial nesting caves — a penguin. I had to look twice. 16 Yet these birds appeared perfectly comfortable. For a moment, I wondered if my eyes were playing tricks on me. Had someone forgotten to tell them they belong in Antarctica? No. These are Humboldt penguins, one of the few species that naturally live in warm regions of South. I had always associated penguins with snow and ice. 17 The Humboldt penguin is native to the coastal area from Peru to central Chile. Some groups even live surprisingly close to the equator. The species was named after Alexander von Humboldt, who first observed them on his expedition. Unlike their Antarctic relatives, Humboldt penguins have spent millions of years adapting to warmer environments. Their feathers are lighter, and they have bare pink skin around their eyes for cooling They also have a slimmer body shape to release heat more efficiently. 18 Yet even these adaptations cannot fully explain their success near the tropics. 19 During his expedition, Humboldt found coastal waters unexpectedly cold and identified a vast current from Antarctica. Today known as the Humboldt Current, it cools the sea and the air above it, creating a mild coastal climate. 20 Cold water rising from the deep carries rich nutrients to the surface, feeding huge fish populations and providing a reliable food source for the penguins. That’s why Humboldt penguins deserve the name: without the Humboldt Current, they would almost not exist. A. The answer lies in the Humboldt Current. B. But nature, as it often does, had another story to tell. C. All these physical adaptations help them cope with the heat. D. It was late July and the rooftop was baking under direct sunshine. E. This explains why they are found along the coasts of South America. F. However, penguins actually prefer a much warmer place than we think. G. More importantly, the current supports one of the richest ocean ecosystems. 第二部分 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。 My husband AJ started running to lose weight, focusing on the twenty-five pounds he’d put on since we married. I fully 21 him doing what he needed to do to feel good. Therefore, we signed up for the New York 5K race together. As we waited for the crack of the gun to release us, we 22 up and down at the start line in the bitter January cold. “You sure you don’t mind if I 23 you?” he asked. He had started 24 a couple of weeks prior and was running a few times a week. “Nope,” I replied. When the gun 25 , he sprinted ahead. After a few minutes of running, I saw my husband ahead, so I 26 up to him. After a mile, I caught him, and we ran together for a bit. Always competitive, I pushed the 27 , thinking he would keep up. He fell behind a few feet, then a few yards, and then he was 28 . I finished the race in a 29 time of minutes. I felt beyond thrilled, considering I hadn’t trained. AJ was ashamed. He couldn’t believe that I, untrained and not particularly in shape, had 30 him. I encouraged him to move every day and set 31 . Then, he announced that he was going to run a marathon in each state. Once he set his mind on it, he was all in. I saw him run on the hilly, wooded 32 as the cold November air chilled him, and I saw him face hail (冰雹), lightning, and even the 33 of loose dogs. 34 he got his medal and my kiss. When he crossed the line, he certainly wasn’t comfortable — the 35 knees from falling saw to that, but he was satisfied. He had pushed himself beyond what he thought was possible and finished. 21. A. restricted B. supported C. opposed D. doubted 22. A. bounced B. nodded C. floated D. rolled 23. A. help B. leave C. follow D. train 24. A. skipping B. cycling C. swimming D. jogging 25. A. whistled B. screamed C. erupted D. crashed 26. A. edged B. held C. walked D. wandered 27. A. distance B. line C. barrier D. pace 28. A. out of sight B. at a loss C. in a hurry D. out of hand 29. A. sufficient B. long C. terrible D. respectable 30. A. caught B. beaten C. quit D. struck 31. A. tests B. limits C. goals D. records 32. A. highways B. paths C. streets D. sidewalks 33. A. protection B. company C. cheer D. threat 34. A. Immediately B. Gradually C. Eventually D. Suddenly 35. A. treated B. infected C. skinned D. broken 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 air in Xiaerhete Village on the China-Kazakhstan border carries us sweet smell on apples. This quiet, remote village in Xinjiang has been remarkably reshaped by Gulimila Dawulieti, 36 passionate local Kazakh woman with a degree in environmental resources. In 2019, Gulimila became head of the village committee and set out 37 (transform) the place with great determination. Her biggest challenge was a large area of waste 38 (lie) right at the village entrance beside the main road. Working alongside the villagers, she helped clear tons of waste, treat polluted soil and turn the area into an apple orchard (果园). which soon brought new hope. As the environment improved, tourists who 39 (draw) to its scenery and culture beganto arrive. The 2024 hit TV series To the Wonder further boosted tourism here Thanks to state support, villagers now live in modern neighborhoods 40 (equip) with showers, heating boilers and stable power supply. Even the migration routes have been modernized. What 41 (be) once a seven-day journey now takes only two or three days conducted with greater organization and environmental care. To Gulimila, these 42 (season) moves are the “root and soul” of Kazak culture. It must be protected, she insists, but protection does not mean forcing her neighbors back into the past. Up to now, the village has developed a path of integrated development, one 43 preserves the nomadic (游牧的) migration tradition 44 turns grassland culture into a distinctive tourism resource. Gulimila’s work continues, guided by a philosophy as simple as it is steadfast (坚定的): improve the environment, solidify local 45 (industry) and ensure her neighbors’ livelihoods are secure. 第三部分 写作（共两节，满分40分） 第一节 单词拼写（共15小题，满分15分） 根据汉语意思填写单词，每空只填一个单词。【用Unit1（选必1）~Unit3（选必1）单词】 46. We have come up with new ways of attracting __________ (潜在的) customers. 47. He stuck to the same training _________ (惯例) because he knew it was the right one. 48. I felt delighted because I successfully ________ (说服) my father to give up smoking. 49. Television is a very _________ (效率高的) medium for spreading information. 50. You can watch some famous Peking Opera videos on the Internet or read some ________ (相关的) materials. 51. The young man could not ________ (抵抗) the attraction of the sea and became a sailor. 52. As the fog gradually lifted, the outline of the mountains became ________ (看得见的) in the distance. 53. It is important to ________ (承认) the efforts of all the volunteers. 54. Modern communication is ________ (至关重要) to people’s lifestyle and broadens people’s horizons. 55. The news may be unexpected; ________ (不过). it is true. 56. All the teaching equipment here is _________ (可获得的，可使用的) to students. 57. I noticed that a public building had two different signs and they had ________ (有区别的) functions. 58. An ________ (精确的) weather forecast is very important for planning a safe mountain climbing trip. 59. There is nothing we can do to help Linda whose ________ (条件；环境) are beyond our control. 60. The rain had stopped and a rainbow was ________ (看得清的) in the sky. 五、书信写作 你校校报新开设了一个名为“Robots and Our Future Life”的栏目，现面向师生征文。请你根据提示，用英语写一篇短文，向该栏目投稿。内容如下： 1．机器人在人们未来生活中的作用；2．机器人对人们未来生活的影响；3．你个人的观点。 要求：1．展开合理想象；2．词数100左右；3．可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $