2026-2027学年高中英语人教版 玉溪师院附中高二英语期中模拟题（三）

2026—2027 学年度高二上学期期中英语模拟试题（提升卷）

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一、阅读理解

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

Teen Guides Wanted at the City Science Museum

Do you enjoy explaining things to other people? The City Science Museum is looking for 20 teen guides aged 15 to 18 to help visitors during the winter holiday.

What guides do

Welcome visitors at the entrance and hand out floor maps.

Lead a 25-minute tour of the Space and Robotics halls twice a morning.

Help younger children try the hands-on exhibits (展品) and answer simple questions.

Dates and time

Training: 10 and 11 January, 9:30 a.m.–4:00 p.m. Attendance on both days is required.

Work: 16 January to 10 February, mornings or afternoons, four days a week.

What you get

A uniform shirt, a reference booklet and free lunch on working days.

A letter signed by the museum director, plus 40 volunteer hours.

How to apply

Fill in the form on the museum website before 5 December. Applicants who are picked will be invited to a short talk on 20 December. Nothing should be sent by post. For questions, email teen.guides (讲解员)@scimuseum.cn.

21. When does the winter-holiday work begin?

A. 5 December.

B. 10 January.

C. 16 January.

D. 20 December.

22. What must a guide do before starting work?

A. Attend both days of training.

B. Send a shorter form to the director.

C. Buy a uniform shirt at the entrance.

D. Lead a tour of the whole museum.

23. Where should the form be filled in?

A. In a letter to the museum director.

B. In the Space hall.

C. On the museum website.

D. At the entrance of the museum.

B

For 40 years, I worked in and around nursing homes, as a manager, a surveyor and a long-term care advocate (倡导者). One lesson has stayed with me: a nursing home admission often begins not with a medical crisis, but with a housing problem.

Beyond the financial and emotional burden, an unmanageable home quietly turns into a medical risk. For older people, living alone in an expensive, high-upkeep home drives up chronic stress, raising blood pressure and increasing the risk of cognitive decline (认知衰退). High housing costs also force difficult trade-offs between paying for utilities and buying medicine.

Meanwhile, a student or some other young adult may need affordable housing. Home-share brings those needs together: a homeowner offers a private room and shared space at below-market (低于市价的) rent, sometimes reduced further in exchange for limited household help.

Home-share is not an untested idea. HomeShare Vermont has operated since 1982, while the New York Foundation for Senior Citizens has run a screened matching programme since 1981. Canada HomeShare pairs older homeowners with young adults who provide company and up to seven hours of light household help a week.

Massachusetts lawmakers are considering H.4695 and S.2834, companion bills that would create a voluntary home-share programme overseen by the Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities. The proposal requires written agreements and calls for background checks and a state-run emergency fund. For an older homeowner with a spare room, home-share can provide income for taxes and repairs without forcing the owner to sell the home.

But home-share is not a great option for everyone. Available rooms may be far from jobs, schools or public transport. Some homes need costly repairs before they can be shared safely, and building rules may prevent it.

The bill also creates barriers of its own. It requires homeowners to carry at least $1 million in property and liability coverage (责任保险), costs that may deter people with modest incomes. More seriously, it exempts (免除) those who join from major provisions of Massachusetts landlord-tenant and eviction (驱逐) law. A programme meant to protect people should not trap anyone in an unsafe situation.

Home-share (合住) is not elder care, and a spare bedroom is not an affordable housing strategy. But with rights people can enforce and skilled matching, it can become a useful part of one.

24. What does the author suggest about expensive housing in paragraph 2?

A. It forces older homeowners to sell their houses at once.

B. It can raise the risk of illness among people living alone.

C. It has made nursing homes much cheaper than before.

D. It explains why medicine is so expensive.

25. According to the text, what would the Massachusetts bills require?

A. Monthly reports to the Executive Office.

B. Seven hours of household help every week.

C. A spare room in every home taking part.

D. Written agreements between the two sides.

26. What does the author imply about the insurance requirement in the bill?

A. It may deter people of modest income from joining the programme.

B. It will be dropped from the final version of the two bills.

C. It was copied from the rules of HomeShare Vermont.

D. It protects tenants better than the emergency fund does.

27. Which of the following would be the most suitable title for the text?

A. Life After the Nursing Home

B. Young Renters and Older Homeowners

C. A Spare Room Can Help — but the Bill Needs Changing

D. Home-share and the Problems It Leaves Unsolved

C

One of the most cited stories about Yellowstone's wolves is facing fresh scrutiny (审查).

A peer-reviewed analysis published in Global Ecology and Conservation argues that a high-profile 2025 study overstated the impact of wolf recovery in Yellowstone National Park. Researchers from Utah State University and Colorado State University say the earlier work relied on flawed methods.

“Ripple et al. argued that carnivore recovery produced one of the world's strongest trophic cascades,” said Dr Daniel MacNulty, lead author of the new analysis. “But our re-analysis shows their conclusion is invalid because it relies on circular reasoning.”

At the centre of the debate is a claim that willow crown volume (树冠体积) increased by 1,500 percent after wolf recovery. According to the new analysis, that figure came from a model that used plant height both to calculate willow volume and to predict it. “Because height was used both to compute and to predict volume,” MacNulty explained, “the relationship is circular, and is guaranteed to look strong even if no biological change occurred.”

The researchers also raised other concerns. The height-to-volume model was applied to heavily browsed (被啃食的) willows with unusual growth forms, although it had not been designed for such shapes. Many of the willow plots compared between 2001 and 2020 were not the same locations, so changes over time may partly reflect differences in sampling rather than real ecological shifts.

The analysis further argues that comparisons with trophic cascades (营养级联) elsewhere relied on assumed balance, which does not fit Yellowstone's still-recovering ecosystem. Selective use of photos and the omission of factors including human hunting also made it harder to tell what was driving changes in vegetation.

“Once these problems are accounted for, there is no evidence that predator recovery caused a large or system-wide increase in willow (柳树) growth,” said Dr David Cooper of Colorado State University. “The data instead support a more modest and spatially variable response influenced by hydrology (水文), browsing and local site conditions.”

“Our goal is to clarify the evidence, not to downplay the role of predators,” MacNulty said. “Predator effects in Yellowstone are real but context-dependent.”

Ripple et al. (2025) read the data as evidence of a powerful cascade throughout the park. In contrast, Hobbs et al. (2024), who collected the data during two decades of field experiments, reported only weak effects.

28. Why does the new analysis question the 1,500 percent figure?

A. It was based on photographs of the same trees.

B. It left out the effects of human hunting.

C. It came from a model that used height twice.

D. It was measured in only one willow plot.

29. What problem do the researchers find with the comparison between 2001 and 2020?

A. The two sets of willows were not recorded in the same places.

B. The height of the willows was never written down.

C. The 2020 willows were much older than the 2001 ones.

D. The 2020 work was done by researchers from a different university.

30. The underlined words “spatially variable” in paragraph 7 are closest in meaning to

A. far larger than the earlier figure.

B. caused by the wolves themselves.

C. weak in every part of the park.

D. uneven across the park.

31. Why does the author refer to Hobbs et al. (2024) in the last paragraph?

A. To argue that wolves should be moved out of the park.

B. To show that the same data can lead to a different conclusion.