重庆市第二外国语学校高2026级高二上第一次质量检测
英语试题
（全卷共七道大题 满分：150分 考试时间：120分钟）
第一部分 听力（共二节，满分30分）
第一节（每题1. 5分，共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。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 the future will bring
A. Flying cars. B. High-speed cars. C. Self-driving cars.
2. How will the man probably get to Ditan Park
A. By subway. B. By bus. C. On foot.
3. What will the speakers probably do this weekend
A. Clean the city river. B. Plant some trees. C. Attend a class.
4. What makes up the lowest percentage of communication according to the man
A. Words. B. Body language. C. Tone of voice.
5. What are the speakers mainly talking about
A. Gifts from rich people. B. News about space travel. C. A birthday party for a friend.
第二节（每题1. 5分，共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。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. Where does the conversation probably take place
A. At home. B. In the school. C. In a game store.
7. What subject does Mrs. Smart probably teach
A. Math. B. English. C. Geography.
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8. How is the man feeling
A. Surprised. B. Relaxed. C. Tired.
9. Where did the man spend most of his holiday
A. On the farm. B. On the beach. C. In the park.
10. What does the man say about Hawaiian boats
A. They are made of a single tree.
B. They are covered in interesting designs.
C. They were originally inspired by Māori culture.
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11. What is the probable relationship between the speakers
A. Gym manager and employee. B. Teacher and student. C. Sports coach and athlete.
12 Why was the man late again
A. He got too much schoolwork. B. He was not willing to train hard. C. He had to meet with a great boxer.
13. What's the woman like
A. Strict. B. Hard-working. C. Understanding.
听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。
14 What does the woman think of living in space
A. Boring. B. Scary. C. Challenging.
15. What was quite hard for the woman on the space station
A. Falling asleep. B. Washing her hair. C. Running experiments.
16. What do we know about astronauts on the space station
A They are not very busy with work.
B. They experience more nighttime there.
C. They watch films or play games for fun.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. Where did the speaker see the report
A. On TV. B. In a newspaper. C. On the Internet.
18. What will become normal over the next 10 years
A. Working from home. B. Working while traveling. C. Working less each week.
19. What is the Microsoft app expected to do
A. Force people to leave their offices.
B. Help people separate work life from home life.
C. Provide people with relevant traffic information.
20. How will people pay for goods in the future according to the journalist
A. With their phones. B. With their cards. C. With their faces.
第二部分 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、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
A
The varied landscapes of South Africa play host to an extraordinary variety of seasonal natural phenomena in the southern hemisphere (南半球)
WHALES IN HERMANUS
When it comes to land-based whale-watching, few places worldwide can rival Hermanus. It's scenic at any time, but in the latter half of each year, particularly between August and October, the area is frequented by huge, 50-ton southern right whales. The Hermanus Whale Festival takes place in lato September, a sociable event with street parades and more. The town is close enough to Cape Town to work as a day trip.
hermanus-tourism. co. za
TURTLES (海龟) AT SODWANA BAY
Between November and January each year, female loggerhead and leatherback turtles appear from the Indian Ocean on the beaches of Sodwana Bay and lay their eggs in the sand. The bay was famous as a scuba-diving site, but the chance to see its nesting sea turtles is as good a reason to come calling. Tours to see them in the sand are on foot, usually beginning at sunset, and can last from two to four hours.
kosi. co. za
NIGHT SKY IN THE KALAHARI
Since 2019, the! Ae! Hai Kalahari Heritage Park has been named as an International Dark Sky Sanctuary. Benefiting from precious little light pollution, it offers world-class stargazing. This is especially true in the dry season, between May and October. If you time your visit to coincide with a new moon, when the star-specked dark skies are at their most vivid, then so much the better.
xauslodge. co . za
DESERT FLOWERS IN NAMAQUALAND
Each year a saffron-coloured spread of flower-carpeted shrublands appears in the dry surrounds of Namaqualand in the Northern Cape. The star of the show is a bright orange wildflower known as the Namaqualand daisy, which blankets the remote Namaqua National Park. The key period for seeing the flowers is between early August and late September, during the Southern Hemisphere spring. Demand for local accommodation is generally high, so book well ahead.
1. Which website is for whale-watching visitors
A. xauslodge. co. za B. hermanus- tourism. co. za
C. kosi. co. za D.
2. Which of the landscape is suitable to visit in June
A. KALAHARI B. HERMANUS C. SODWANA BAY D. NAMAQUALAND
3. What do the four landscapes have in common
A. They all require advance booking for visits. B. They all are best visited during the dry season.
C. They all involve observing life in the sea. D. They all feature unique natural cycles.
B
The word “emoji” comes from Japanese, literally meaning “picture character”. Emoji s are small symbols representing ideas, emotions or feelings. When first introduced in Japan in 1999, emojis were limited to 176 simple designs. Now there are more than 3, 000 emojis that expand upon the way in which we communicate.
It seems that emojis have clear advantages over written language. People like them because they add emotional meaning, and are quick and easy to use. With a smiling or sad face added to a message or post, your reader can “see” your facial expression while reading your words. Emojis can also help people express their feelings when they cannot find the appropriate words. For instance, if your friend is moving across the country, you may just send them a string of crying faces to express your sadness over your separation.
The use of emojis has even spread to classical literature. A Shakespeare series for young readers has taken William Shakespeare’s popular plays and replaced some words with textspeak and emojis. The intention of these adaptations is to make the classics more accessible to young readers. Some people, however, believe that these new versions have taken away the heart and soul of Shakespeare’s plays.
As we can see, emojis have a tendency to pop up all over the place. Users of emojis say that they facilitate the way in which we communicate and express ourselves. But this makes others, especially educators, worry that we are losing the ability to communicate properly using the written word, or even the spoken word. Perhaps people will one day choose to communicate in pictures, and forget how to write properly. On that day, emojis will have become a real pictorial “language”. But, for now, maybe it’s best that we just enjoy using them.
4. What is an advantage of emoji according to the text
A. It is convenient to write down. B. It has an emotional touch.
C. It makes message-reading harder. D. It can help repair friendship.
5. What is the author’s purpose in mentioning Shakespeare
A. To show the widespread application of emojis. B. To give a brief account of emojis’ functions.
C. To recommend the adaptations of classics. D. To honor the famous English playwriter.
6. What does the underlined part “pop up” in paragraph 4 refer to
A. Break B. Lack. C. Appear. D. Die.
7. What is the writer’s attitude towards the current use of emojis
A. Objective. B. Concerned. C. Negative. D. Favorable.
C
Boston wants to be smarter. The city has taken advantage of technologies to become more responsive to its residents’ needs. But technology alone is not sufficient to make today’s cities liveable. Boston has discovered that it also needs to reach the old-fashioned low-tech community and integrate that technology with city life.
Kris Carter rolled out Boston’s smart city program in 2014. It started with an app that residents could download to report locations where sidewalks needed repair. The city sorted out those reports and ranked them in a database, which repair crews used to prioritize their work.
The system worked beautifully, except for one problem: most of the alerts (警报) came from wealthier neighborhoods, where the concentration of smartphone-equipped residents was highest. “The complaints from the app didn’t always correlate with the greatest community need for repairs,” explains Carter.
Carter’s group has moved away from the model common to many smart city initiatives of letting tech-savvy (精通技术的) residents drive the process. Instead, they run meetings to find out what problems people in different neighborhoods care about solving. When it came to sidewalks, Boston introduced a second method of collecting repair tips, hiring people to get out and walk the city’s 1, 700 miles of sidewalks to take notes on their condition.
Whether using low-tech or high-tech approaches, says Carter, to stay smart, a city needs to continually reassess its options to spot opportunities to improve residents’ lives. Take the sidewalk repair program, walking on the streets was proved a useful, if inefficient way to prioritizo repair needs. But last year the group found that walkers’ mobile phones could be tracked as they moved along the streets, and that data could be analyzed to identify side walk routes which are most often used by neighborhoods.
“Combined with our other sidewalk information, that gave us an even better way to predict where faster repairs would do the most good,” says Carter. “We’re really always looking for whatever mix of approaches best solves the problem. ”
8. How did Kris Carter carry out the smart city program
A. By writing reports on sidewalk locations. B. By processing reports collected from an app.
C. By presenting data on sidewalk usage. D. By comparing data from different databases.
9. What problem did Kris Carter’s team meet when carrying out their program
A. They faced many technical problems. B. They were not supported by residents.
C. They couldn’t serve all residents well. D. They were annoyed by being short-staffed.
10. Which of the following might Kris Carter most agree with
A. Maximizing the benefits of technology. B. Mixing approaches for solving problems.
C. Having greater confidence in the residents. D. Letting tech companies be a leading role.
11. What can be a suitable title for the text
A. A smart city: more than just tech B. A city with intelligent facilities
C. Joint-effort in city construction D. The modernization of a city
D
Japanese scientists have created one of the world’s most unusual spacecraft, the Lignost probe—a tiny satellite made of timber (木材). In experiments carried out on the International Space Station(ISS), it was found particularly stable and resistant to cracking. Now plans are being finalized to launch it on a US rocket this summer.
The timber satellite has been built to see if they can act as environmentally friendly alternatives to the metals from which all satellites are currently constructed.
“All the satellite s reentering the Earth’s atmosphere burn and create harmful particles, which will float in the upper atmosphere for years, ” Takao Doi, a Japanese astronaut and aerospace engineer, warned recently. “Eventually, it will affect the environment of the Earth. ”
To tackle the problem, Kyoto researchers set up a project to evaluate types of wood to determine how well they could withstand (抵抗) the severe conditions of space launch and lengthy flights in orbit round the Earth. The first tests were conducted in laboratories that recreated conditions in space, and wood samples were found to have suffered no measurable changes in mass or signs of decomposition or damage. “Wood’s ability to withstand these conditions astonished us, ” said Koji Murata, head of the project. After these tests, samples were sent to the ISS, where they were subjected to exposure trials for almost a year before being brought back to Earth. Again, they showed little signs of damage, a phenomenon that Murata attributed to the fact that there is neither oxygen in space which could cause wood to burn, nor living creatures to cause it to rot.
“One of the missions of the satellite is to measure the deformation of the wooden structure in space. Wood is durable (耐用的) and stable (稳定的) in one direction but may be easy to have dimensional changes and cracking in the other direction,” he said.
It is expected that the probe will operate in space for at least six months before being allowed to enter the upper atmosphere. If it performs well during its operation in orbit, then the door could be opened for the use of wood as construction material for more satellites.
12. Why is timber used in the spacecraft
A. Timber provides a distinct appearance. B. Timber is cost-effective compared to metals.
C. Timber is an eco-friendly replacement of metals. D. Timber maintains better structural performance.
13. What can be learned from the project in paragraph 4
A. The project aimed at wood’s space-enduring qualities.
B. The project targeted wood’s cost-minimizing potential.
C. The project concentrated on wood’s weight - maintaining aspects.
D. The project examined wood’s creature-withstanding features.
14. What is the disadvantage of timber according to Murata
A. It is subject to dimensional instability.
B. It’s structure is unreliable in space.
C. It changes shape under extreme temperatures.
D. It’s durability is affected by microgravity conditions.
15. What is the main idea of the last paragraph
A. The Lignost probe is expected to last for at least six months in space before reentry.
B. The Lignost probe’s mission is to check how well wood holds up in space.
C. The Lignost probe will help decide if wood can be used to build more satellites in the future.
D. The Lignost probe’s success could lead to using more metal when making satellites.
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能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Today marks the last day of the Social Media Detox, a fundraising campaign for new sports equipment. At the start of the detox, over 100 students had been persuaded to stop using social media, in ANY form, for seven days.
I bet you’re eager to find out just how many have been motivated enough to last the full seven days! ___16___
Anna 17 I lasted two days. The detox was more difficult to tolerate than I had expected. I felt like I had lost an arm! ___17___ But on reflection, I can see how much of my time had been occupied with checking my phone. I’m now trying to spend less time online and more time picking up my hobbies.
Devon 16 I lasted four days. On Monday, my classmate and I spoke about what we did at the weekend-it felt really strange not to already know what he had done. We would usually have posted pictures and updated our profiles. Doing the detox meant we had to talk and explain what we were doing and thinking! ___18___
George 16 I did all seven days, too! To be honest, I didn’t find the detox too difficult, but I did give my phone to my dad to avoid giving in! ___19___ . So he took me to check out our local sports centre. An hour’s sport each day left me tired out and wanting to go to bed early. The detox made me healthier!
The detox raised a total of 1, 632. 82 for new school sports equipment! ___20___ Awareness of just how much we rely on social media can help us step away from it and communicate with each other better.
A. It had brought us such a big trouble!
B. I loved playing basketball with my brother.
C. And what has been learnt from the experience
D. Not eating for two days would have been easier!
E. Something other than money has also been raised.
F. It made me realise the value of real contact that I had forgotten.
G. My brother thought I should make full use of the time without my phone.
第三部分 语言运用（共两节，满分30分）
第一节（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。
In 17th-century Europe, it was unheard of for a woman to travel by herself, but that didn’t stop Maria Sibylla Merian. In 1699, she and her daughter Dorothea ___21___ from Amsterdam to Surinam in South America. The three-month voyage was ___22___ but she was determined to go. She wanted to be the first person to go to a foreign country to study and paint insects ___23___ from nature.
When they arrived in Surinam, Maria and Dorothea ___24___ working. Day after day, they took their painting ___25___ into the hot rainforest to collect and draw insects and plants. Artists had never done such a thing before. Still life painters drew from dead specimens (标本). But Maria had always been interested in painting ___26___ animals and plants.
In the rainforest, she ___27___ ladders (梯子) to study and collect insects. She had trees cut down so she could see what ___28___ at the top level of the forest more than a hundred feet overhead. Maria combined both ___29___ and science in her work. As a skilled ____30____ , she kept detailed notes.
After two years, she had to ____31____ Surinam. The ____32____ was unbearable and she was ill with malaria. But she had more than enough material for a/an ____33____ . In June 1701, Maria and Dorothea went back to Amsterdam.
Four years later, in 1705, Maria ____34____ the book for which she is best known, Metamorphosis of the Insects of Surinam. The paintings of insects and plants in their natural habitats ____35____ the scientific study of insects.
21. A. sailed B. flew C. drove D. walked
22. A. pleasant B. dangerous C. remarkable D. short
23. A. directly B. quickly C. gradually D. slightly
24. A. stopped B. started C. loved D. tried
25. A. prizes B. works C. materials D. paints
26. A. sick B. ancient C. living D. rare
27. A. invented B. extracted C. jumped D. climbed
28 A. wandered B. stretched C. floated D. lived
29. A. art B. music C. literature D. technology
30. A. observer B. student C. novelist D. journalist
31. A. leave B. bless C. defeat D. keep
32. A. insect B. smell C. heat D. food
33. A. essay B. journal C. painting D. book
34. A. published B. assessed C. banned D. adjusted
35. A. ceased B. advanced C. revealed D. opposed
第二节（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。
Changchun, capital city of Northeast China’s Jilin province, is redoubling efforts to promote ___36___ (it) ice and snow culture at present.
___37___ response to a three-year action plan issued by the provincial government in October to build Jilin into a world-class ice and snow brand and improve winter tourism and summer resort destinations for achieving ___38___ 1-trillion-yuan tourism industry within five years, Changchun is hosting a wide range of activities, planned by the Jingyue High: tech Industrial Development Zone ___39___ (show) the city’s unique charm.
“We are linking world-renowned ice and snow-related intellectual property with outstanding traditional Chinese culture, aiming to create a ___40___ (harmony) environment for ice and snow culture, a good stage for telling stories, a platform for talent cultivation and development, and a popular IP asset that can ___41___ (pass) on through word of mouth while building a well-recognized brand among the public,” said Yu Li, head of the publicity department at the Jingyue High-tech Industrial Development Zone.
Together with the ___42___ (twenty-two) China Changchun Jingyuetan Vasaloppet International Ski Festival, the organizers ___43___ (plan) Vasa Night to promote cultural exchanges between China and Sweden so far. Moreover, the Snow Angel of Vasaloppet China 2024 competition, ___44___ concluded with the finals in late December, was a landmark event to demonstrate the charm of ice and snow through a fashion show. It ended with 23 ____45____ (competitor) appearing on stage in a group dancing performance featuring traditional Chinese clothing, sportswear and qipao dresses.
第四部分 写作（共两节，满分40分）
第一节 应用文写作（满分15分）
46. 假设你是李华，你校英语口语社将换届选举，你打算参选社长，请你写一篇英语竞选演讲稿，进行口头竞选演讲。内容包括：
1. 竞选职位；
2. 个人优势；
3. 当选设想。
注意：1. 词数 80 左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：英语口语社Oral English Club
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第二节（满分25分）
47. 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。
“What will we be singing for the contest this year ” a student from my high school choir asked eagerly.
I worried about this moment. “I was thinking, ” I said, “maybe we would skip the contest and just work hard on the concerts this year. ”
“NO! ” the kids protested.
“We’ve got to go to the contest! ”
“It’s a tradition! ”
Indeed, award plaques(牌匾) lined the front wall of the music room from the past successes of large, talented classes. But a change in educational policies reduced my choir to a mere thirty-two young, inexperienced kids who could sing only a simple melody.
“I’ll have to think about it, ” I said, hoping their enthusiasm would die off in a couple of weeks. Quite on the contrary, more determined, they begged and insisted every day. I wasn’t a miracle worker. So I hesitated.
Finally one morning I stepped into class. “Look at the clock! ” I demanded. “We’ve wasted two full minutes because some of you don’t have your music ready. If we are entering the contest. . . ” The rest of my sentence was lost in cheers of delight and applause.
“From now on,” I continued when the noise weakened, “you will find the day’s lesson plan on the board. Make full preparations for each class and follow my instructions absolutely. You will work much harder than you’ve ever worked in any class before. And if one of these rules is broken, we will not go to the contest. ”
To my surprise, the kids remained focused, following the rules strictly. Each morning witnessed their diligence(勤奋): working on sight-reading, learning musical terms, rehearsing, etc.
When the contest day finally arrived, the kids felt ready and confident to take on the world! Their eyes, however, widened when 125 students from King School arrived. My kids’ jaws dropped when two private schools came with fifty members each. And finally forty-five members from Milwaukee School of Art showed up.
注意：1. 续写词数应为 150 左右;
2. 请按如下格式作答。
Paragraph 1:
Then came the turn for my choir.
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Paragraph 2:
After all the choirs had performed, we waited in our assigned room for the results.
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重庆市第二外国语学校高2026级高二上第一次质量检测
英语试题
第二部分阅读理解（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）
【答案】1. B2. A3. D
【答案】4. B5. A6. C7. A
【答案】8B9. C10. B11. A
【答案】12. C13. A14. A15. C
第二节（共5小题；每小题2. 5分，满分12. 5分）
【答案】16. C17. D18. F19. G20. E
第三部分语言运用（共两节，满分30分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
【答案】21. A22. B23. A24. B25. C26. C27. D28. D29. A30. A31. A32. C33. D34. A35. B
第二节（共10小题；每小题1. 5分，满分15分）
【答案】36. its
37. In38. a
39. to show
40. harmonious
41. be passed
42. twenty-second
43. have planned
44. petitors
第四部分写作（共两节，满分40分）
第一节应用文写作（满分15分）
46.
【答案】Hello, dear teachers and fellow students. I’m Li Hua. I feel greatly honored to be here running for the president of the School Oral English Club.
My advantage lies in my fluent spoken English, with which I’m capable of communicating with foreign teachers and students in English. Besides, being monitor of my class, I possess some extraordinary leadership qualities needed for the position. If elected, I would organize various activities ranging from English Corner to English Speech Contest, where students can improve oral English and build up confidence. I do hope you can vote for me.
That’s all. Thanks for listening.
第二节（满分25分）
47.
【答案】
Then came the turn for my choir. Extremely confident, they mounted on the stage as we rehearsed. “Smile!” I mouthed. I took a deep breath and we began. Having performed masterfully, we finished our three songs, and I wanted to scream at the top of my lungs, “YOU DID IT!” What delighted me more was that they fully enjoyed their performance without getting panicked, winning storms of cheers and applause. My heart swelled with pride for this little group as they realized their dream with the same bravery they had shown from day one.
After all the choirs had performed, we waited in our assigned room for the results. Sensing their worries about the group size, I reassured them: it was the performance rather than the size that mattered and most importantly, we enjoyed it. Time ticking, kids waited anxiously. Eventually, there came the news that we got the highest marks of all. All kids were screaming and embracing. Warm tears wetting my cheeks, I stood frozen, staring at the list in disbelief. It was a blessing that I was surrounded by kids who had a dream, who refused to give up, who taught me never to doubt the possibility of success for any student ever again.
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