广东省惠州市惠阳区部分学校联考2026-2027学年高二上学期11月期中英语试题

2026—2027学年第一学期期中考试

高二英语试题

本卷共8页　　考试时间：120分钟　　满分：130分

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第一部分　阅读（共两节，满分60分）

第一节（共15小题；每小题3分，满分45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

Welcome to Glacier National Park

Set in the wonderful Rockies of northern Montana, Glacier National Park, famous for its amazing glaciers and large U-shaped valleys, is worth visiting!

Don't miss Going-to-the-Sun Road

On its run across the park, Going-to-the-Sun Road offers more wonderful viewpoints than just about any other drive in the National Park System. Logan Pass is a must-stop. But there are many fascinating scenes along the 50-mile route: Jackson Glacier Overlook, Oberlin Bend, etc. Lakeshores are another great place for you to take photos, especially the view from Apgar Village across Lake McDonald.

Best things to do for families

• During the summer months, Apgar Nature Center offers hands-on, interactive exhibits, games and activities for kids, as well as ranger (护林员) talks on park plants and animals.

• Boat rides on park lakes and whitewater rafting (漂流) on the Flathead River are great ways to explore the park's waterways. You can also rent bikes to cycle the Apgar Bike Path.

• Families staying longer in the park can participate in the Glacier Institute's summer children's overnight programs, such as the two-day Happy Camper Camp, three-day Survival Skills Camp, or four-day Nature Discovery Camp.

Here's what else you need to know

• Fees: Private cars are $35, motorcycles are $30, and individuals are $20.

• Access: You can enter the park either from the West Glacier entrance, which is 35 miles from Kalispell, or from the St. Mary entrance on the park's eastern side.

• When to go: Although Glacier National Park is open year-round, many facilities are only available during the high season, from late May to the end of September. Summers in the northern Rockies are brilliant, with sunny, blue-sky days. However, the weather can change quickly, bringing rain, wind and even the possibility of summer snow at higher places.

21. Why is the Going-to-the-Sun Road recommended?

22. What can you do with your family in the park?

23. What do we know about Glacier National Park?

B

I grew up hearing pieces of stories about my great-grandfather, an olive (橄榄) farmer in Sicily, who left for America in 1923 with nothing but a bag and a handful of soil. My grandmother spoke of him in soft Italian, and of an old olive tree that was said to have watched generations come and go. For years, these stories were just words — beautiful, but distant, like a book I'd read but never lived. Last summer, I boarded a plane to Sicily to find the tree and the roots I'd only known in whispers.

My hands shook as I saw the tree in the distance: thick with branches spreading wide like open arms. I reached out and touched it. The bark (树皮) was warm, worn smooth by decades of hands — my great-grandfather's hands, his father's, his grandfather's. In that moment, the distance between past and present broke down.

A local elder said my great-grandfather left because the olive harvest failed three years in a row. He sailed to America to support his family back home. He never returned. His family joined him years later. Since then, villagers had tended to the olive tree, generation after generation, a reminder of those who had left.

As the sun set, I sat under the olive tree. I thought of my grandmother, who had always felt like a stranger in America, sticking to Italian traditions: making olive oil, speaking her dialect, hanging a dried olive branch above our door. I had thought these customs old-fashioned and meaningless. Now I understood her.

Before I left, I dug a small hole under the olive tree that bridged me to the past and my culture, and placed a handful of American soil next to the Sicilian earth. I whispered a promise: I would carry forward these stories that had shaped our family. I left Sicily not just with a handful of soil, but with a sense of belonging I had never felt before.

24. Why did the author decide to go to Sicily?

25. How did the author feel when she touched the olive tree?

26. What did the author finally think of her grandmother's customs?

27. What can be a suitable title for the text?

C

As AI art generators (生成器) take the world by storm, some people wonder if their works should count as art at all. The technology is still developing and has some wrinkles to iron out, which means there are indeed flaws to consider alongside the incredible artwork a good artificial intelligence can produce.

Art is classed as the product of imagination, skill, experience, and emotion, usually meant to represent something for the public to enjoy. Artists spent time and effort putting their inner worlds onto these works.

Machine intelligence also puts a lot of work into sorting through tons of data, linking someone's prompt to datasets, and trying to represent it as best as possible. The difference is that the AI is driven by instructions instead of an emotional desire to express itself.

AI painters can produce over 1,000 original works of art with every tap of the enter key on a keyboard. But a mass-produced print of the Mona Lisa is worth less than the actual Leonardo da Vinci's painting. Why? Scarcity — there's only one of the original. Should anyone pay for these things? And if an artist puts AI masterpieces up for sale, what should the price be?

AI art involves a program mimicking (模仿) the work of existing artists to create a new piece according to the request of a human. But who made the artwork, the machine or its user? And can the original artists accuse it of copyright violation? Such questions complicate the combination of artificial intelligence and the art industry, while fueling arguments against recognizing AI-generated art as marketable artistic products.

Once we've answered those questions, we can tackle the really big one: When an AI-generated painting wins an award, who gets the prize?

28. What does the underlined word "flaws" in paragraph 1 probably mean?

29. How is AI art different from human art?

30. Why does the writer mention Mona Lisa in paragraph 3?

31. What can we infer from paragraph 4?

D

Microplastics are pollutants found almost everywhere in the environment: such as in ponds, lakes, rivers, waste-water, and the fish that we take in. To date, the most typical methods of microplastic removal have relied on filtration (过滤). However, it costs a pretty penny, gets blocked easily and does not work for those smaller-sized ones.

Susie Dai, a researcher at the University of Missouri, coupled with her colleagues, has been devoted to pioneering a novel solution to remove those microplastics from our water. Recently, they used genetic adaptation to create algae (simple water plants without roots) producing limonene, a naturally occurring oil responsible for the sweet smell of oranges, which makes the engineered algae water-repelling (拒水的). Because microplastics are also water-repellent, the two come together just like magnets (磁铁) when they meet in water, forming large masses that sink to the bottom and create a solid layer of biomass easy to collect and remove.

Researchers tested it by examining the collection of polystyrene (PS) microplastic on the algae in water and found 91.4% of PS was removed in just one hour. Different microplastics were also tried out. Just like with PS, they saw interactions between the algae and Polyethylene (PE) and Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET), proving the algae worked for most microplastics. "By removing the microplastics, cleaning the wastewater and eventually using