云南玉溪师院附中2026-2027学年高一上学期英语期中模拟题（二）

2026—2027 学年度高一上学期期中英语模拟试题（基础卷二）

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。

4. 本卷为笔试部分，共 46 小题，满分 95 分，考试用时 90 分钟。听力 30 分由本校另行组考，与笔试合计 125 分。

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

School Art Festival — Call for Shows

The 2026 School Art Festival will be held on 20 November in the school hall. Every class may hand in two shows at most. Singing, dancing, short plays and music are all welcome.

How to join

Fill in a form at the Students' Union office before 5 November. Write down the name of your show, how many students are in it and the music you need. Forms handed in late will not be accepted.

Practice dates

* First practice: 12 November, 4:00—5:30 p.m., Art Building

* Second practice: 17 November, 4:00—6:00 p.m., school hall

* Final practice: 19 November, 7:00—9:00 p.m., school hall

Every student in a show must come to the final practice. Anyone who misses it may lose the chance to be in the show.

Notes

Bring your own clothes and instruments. The school provides lights and sound. Someone will take photos of every show. For questions, visit Mr Chen in Room 205 or call 010-6688××××.

21. When will the 2026 School Art Festival be held?

A. On 5 November.

B. On 12 November.

C. On 17 November.

D. On 20 November.

22. Which practice must every student attend?

A. The first practice.

B. The final practice.

C. The second practice.

D. The welcome meeting.

23. What does the school provide for the students?

A. Lights and sound.

B. Clothes and instruments.

C. Forms and music.

D. Cameras and photos.

B

Young Inventors Bring Everyday Ideas to California

About 500 inventions were shown at an international invention (发明) festival in Santa Clara, California, this summer. 61 of them came from China, and 19 were made by students aged 9 to 18. The festival invites inventors from many countries, and their ideas were simple, but each tried to solve a problem in daily life.

One team built a pillow (枕头) that shakes gently to wake its user without waking the person next to them. Another team made a stick that helps blind people find their way. A third invented a pair of earplugs (耳塞) that change air pressure, so that flying hurts the ears less. Visitors could try all of them.

Three senior high students from Shimen Middle School in Foshan, Guangdong, looked at something even more ordinary: an egg. In hot weather a fresh egg left at room temperature may go bad in less than a week. The students spent months testing natural materials before they found a thin coating that can be put on the outside of an egg. Eggs with the coating stay fresh about 40 days longer.

Cost was the second problem they wanted to solve. In the United States, keeping eggs fresh means keeping them cold, and that costs about $0.05 for each egg. The Chinese coating (涂层) costs only 0.05 yuan, or about $0.007. For shop owners with no way to keep eggs cold, the difference is large. “Being able to just put something on the outside of it to keep it longer, I think it's a great idea,” said Christina McTaggart, a judge at the festival and an official from Redwood City, California.

None of these young inventors (发明者) call themselves scientists yet. They simply noticed something small, asked why it had to be that way, and stayed with the question until an answer appeared. That is how many inventions begin.

24. How many inventions at the festival came from China?

A. About 500 of them.

B. Just 19 of them.

C. 61 of them.

D. 9 of them.

25. What is the use of the earplugs?

A. They make flying hurt the ears less.

B. They help people who cannot see well.

C. They wake a sleeping person quietly.

D. They keep eggs fresh much longer.

26. What do we know about the egg coating?

A. It was invented by three university students.

B. It keeps an egg fresh for less than a week.

C. It costs about $0.05 for each egg.

D. It can keep eggs fresh about 40 days longer.

27. What does Christina McTaggart think of the coating?

A. It costs too much for farmers.

B. It is a great idea, she says.

C. It should be tested in cold places.

D. It works better than a cold chain.

C

A Cloth That Helps Strawberries Grow

Strawberries are soft, sweet and very easy to break. Insects love them too. Farmers usually fight back with pesticides, but a research team in North Carolina has tried something simpler: they simply covered the plants with a cloth.

The cloth is called Plant Armor. It is a soft cloth, and unlike a flat sheet it is thick and full of holes. Workers lay it directly over the strawberry plants. The holes are small enough to keep insects out, but large enough to let in sunlight, rain and air.

The idea came from an unexpected place. Years ago, the same researchers were asked to make a cloth to go on a soldier's chest. It had to make body armor more comfortable, and it had to keep mosquitoes (蚊子) away. “The path to Plant Armor started with trying to make a cloth to go on a soldier's chest to make body armor more comfortable,” said R. Michael Roe, a professor at North Carolina State University. “Now we arrive at a product which could triple the output of strawberry farms here in North Carolina.”

The trials took place in tunnels (拱棚), the low plastic-covered frames that farmers often use. Over three growing seasons, plants under Plant Armor (护甲) produced up to 3.56 times more fruit than plants left uncovered. The cloth did not cut the light the plants received, and the air under it stayed much the same. It also kept the plants a little warmer, and it did so in all three seasons. The researchers had expected the opposite. A dark cover, they thought, would fool the plant into reaching for light and send its energy into leaves instead of fruit. That did not happen.

For farmers, the cloth could mean fewer pesticides (杀虫剂) and a bigger crop at the same time.

28. What is Plant Armor?

A. A kind of pesticide for strawberries.

B. A plastic tunnel used to keep plants warm.

C. A cloth placed over the plants.

D. A new way of picking fruit without breaking it.

29. What had the researchers expected before the trials?

A. Insects would still find their way in.

B. The cloth would cost too much.

C. The fruit would taste less sweet.

D. The plants would put energy into leaves.

30. What did the tunnel trials show?

A. The plants received much less sunlight.

B. The covered plants produced up to 3.56 times more fruit.

C. The air under the cloth changed a lot.

D. The cloth worked well in only one season.

31. Where did the idea for Plant Armor come from?

A. From research on soldiers' clothing.

B. From a study of strawberry pests.

C. From the farmers of North Carolina.

D. From a bottle of cheap pesticide.

D

Beijing in Your Pocket

In September, people from more than 50 countries and areas met in Beijing for a three-day meeting on tourism. They came to talk about how countries can work together on travel. The meeting, held at Shougang Park, ran under the theme (主题) “Smart Tourism, Shared Prosperity”. The talks were not only about hotels and travel companies, but also about how technology can make a trip easier.

At the meeting, China Daily and the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism started an English platform called China Bound·Beijing. It was built for travellers who do not read Chinese. Visitors can find it at chinabound.cn/beijing, or through mini-programs on Alipay and WeChat. The platform helps users plan a trip, read about places to go, and ask questions of an AI assistant. “Through this platform, we hope to give people from other countries useful news and updates about Beijing tourism,” said Zheng Fang, deputy director of the bureau.

The numbers explain why the platform matters. In the first half of 2026, Beijing received 3.27 million inbound (入境的) visits, and more than 85 percent of the visitors were from other countries. They spent 30 billion yuan, or