2025-2026学年北京市顺义区第一中学高二上学期12月月考英语试题(考试时间：90分钟，满分100分)
第一节：完型填空： (共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分)
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从各题A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案。
Online games constantly make life and death decisions at their keyboards, but it’s just a game. A Texas gamer was faced with a real-life situation and helped ____1____ the life of a fellow player, 5,000 miles away.
Aidan, in England, was playing an online game in his bedroom when he had a seizure. His playing partner, Dia, in Texas, just put her headset on and heard what she could only describe as a seizure, so she started to get ____2____ and asked what was going on and if he was OK. When he didn’t respond, she ____3____ started to look up the emergency number in the UK. When that didn’t work, she just had to hope the non-emergency number would work. It had an ____4____ for talking to a real person.
Someone answered the call and she had to force herself not to ____5____ and to stay calm. “Hi. I’m ____6____ in the US and in a call with my friend.” Dia told the operator. “He had a seizure and he’s not responding anymore. I do have his ____7____. No one’s home with him right now, so I’m just trying to get him some help.”
Actually, Aidan’s parents were watching television downstairs and did not ____8____ their son was in danger until three police officers knocked at their door.
“We are extremely thankful for what Dia did and ____9____ that we could be downstairs and not know anything was happening,” Aida’s mother said. “Dia had our address but didn’t have any contact numbers, so it was amazing that she ____10____ to get help from so far away. I’ve spoken to her and expressed our thanks-she’s glad she could help.”
1. A. save B. enrich C. devote D. spare
2. A. threatened B. trapped C. concerned D. annoyed
3. A. eventually B. immediately C. suddenly D. especially
4. A. action B. order C. arrangement D. option
5. A. explode B. complain C. panic D. quit
6. A. accidentally B. obviously C. currently D. frequently
7 A. age B. name C. number D. address
8. A. decide B. realize C. explain D. judge
9. A. relieved B. shocked C. puzzled D. bored
10. A. managed B. learned C. hoped D. promised
第二节：单句语法填空； (共5小题；每小题1分，共5分)
在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。
11. The film star has got tired of being ________ person who is kept busy all day long. (用适当的词填空)
12. An exhibition at the Jiushi Art Museum in Shanghai is featuring artwork inspired by Go, or weiqi in Chinese, ________ originated in China more than 4,000 years ago. (用适当的词填空)
13. However, according to a report by the World Wildlife Fund, tourists ________ (leave) over 1.3 billion tons of food waste last year. (所给词的适当形式填空)
14. Don't leave him ________ (wait) outside in the rain. (根据汉语提示单词拼写)
15. We haven’t discussed yet _____________we are going to place our new furniture. （用适当的词填空）
第三节 阅读理解 (共14个小题；每小题2分，共28分)
A
National parks are an excellent way to explore all the beauty that the world has to offer: whether it’s endangered species, erupting volcanoes and snowy mountains, or rainforests and lakes. Of the thousands of national parks that exist in the world, these are the ones that should be on everyone’s bucket list.
Yorkshire Dales, United Kingdom
Contrary (相反) to the popular link of national parks with the wilderness, it is filled with winding valleys, hills and villages where over 24,000 people live and work. Visitors can walk through grassland, visit waterfalls or explore underground caves, but Yorkshire Dales is also home to several food shops, and the park hosts cheese festivals and farmers markets regularly, so it’s best to go hungry.
Kakadu National Park, Australia
It is a delight for those who like a bit of history mixed with the biodiversity of national parks. While it houses thousands of species of wildlife, there’s more to the national park than that.
Guilin and Lijiang River National Park, China
It is surrounded by striking natural beauty and can be explored by land. But the river national park, as the name suggests, is best explored through leisurely boat rides that take visitors through many ancient towns that come along the way of the river.
Vatnaj kull National Park, Iceland
Here’s a surprising fact: The whole of Vatnaj kull National Park makes up 14% of Iceland’s territory! The park is usually open for hikes around the glaciers; boat rides through glacier lakes, and tours that take visitors through the park’s many ice caves, waterfalls, and icebergs. Vatnaj kull is also where two of Iceland’s most active volcanoes are located.
16. What is recommended for a trip to Yorkshire Dales
A. Recording local customs.
B. Skiing in the snowy mountains.
C. Going with an empty stomach.
D. Watching the eruption of volcanoes.
17. Which park is the best choice for observing diverse wildlife
A. Yorkshire Dales.
B. Kakadu National Park.
C. Vatnaj kull National Park.
D. Guilin and Lijiang River National Park.
18. What do the last two national parks have in common
A. There are many ancient towns.
B. There are various ice caves inside.
C. They are aimed at protecting rivers.
D. They can be explored through boats.
B
Growing up, my grandparents bought a second home amongst a small forest in Arkansas and would bring me there every single summer. I would spend a lot of time outside there following my grandfather around while he did yard work. We would collect cool-looking rocks and refill the hummingbird feeders.
I always remember my grandparents calling me over to the window when a deer family was in the yard or a few hummingbirds were at the feeders so that I could watch them. I would explore around in the yard by myself sometimes to look for interesting rocks and if I was lucky I would find a turtle. If I did find a turtle, my grandfather would put it in the kiddy pool for me to observe for a few minutes. I was always amazed by these creatures. After I finished observing the turtle, my grandfather would pick it back up and return it to the bush I found it in. I would watch in amazement as it slowly stuck its legs out and crawled back under.
I always felt very at peace at my grandparents’ home. It was quiet and full of interesting natural things I never got to see in Illinois. They disturbed the land around them as little as possible and didn’t see it as nuisance (令人讨厌的东西), rather a beautiful view.
As Aldo Leopold, an American scientist, puts it, we should take the time to appreciate and observe the natural world around us. When we do this, we find it brings us happiness and has a great value beyond just that of resources. Conservation of the natural world is important in that we are dependent upon it for life. We cannot worsen such a bountiful provider at such a rate in which it will never return to anything like what it once was. Our experiences with nature are what will drive us to reach this conclusion, if only everyone took the time to really involve themselves in it.
19. What does the writer mainly talk about in Paragraph 2
A His interest in rocks and animals.
B. His connection with natural world.
C. His daily routine in summer vacation.
D. His close relationship with Grandparents.
20. What does “a bountiful provider” refer to in the last paragraph
A. Nature. B. Illinois.
C. The small forest. D. Grandparents’ home.
21. What is the writer most likely to get across
A. Past experiences should be treasured.
B. Nature offers man a journey of discovery.
C. Quality time with family is of great value.
D. Into the nature, you will know how precious it is.
22 In which forum would you most likely find the text
A Family Matters B. On the Road
C. At One with Nature D. Nature in Words
C
We’ve all felt the tap to the soul you get from driving by your old high school or hearing a tune you once danced to. But why is that feeling so universal
Nostalgia, a combination of the Greek words nostos (homecoming) and algos (pain), was a special type of homesickness associated with soldiers fighting far-off wars. Seventeenth-century physicians worried such thoughts put health at risk. In the 19th century, doctors believed it could cause irregular heartbeat, fever, and death.
Our understanding of nostalgia has developed since then. “It’s a very mixed emotion,” says Frederick Barrett, a neuroscientist. That makes it hard to fit into existing theory, which typically categorizes emotions as either positive or negative. And triggers — the cars, music or smells — are extremely personal. Therefore, designing a standardized study is difficult.
But we do know nostalgia has a marked effect on us: brain imaging studies show that those experiences have their own neural signature. Neuroscientists argued that the emotion is co-produced by the brain’s recall and reward systems. They found that nostalgic images use the memory-managing hippocampus (海马区) more than other sights, as people mine autobiographical (个人经历的) details deep in the past. This mental effort pays off: as the hippocampus activates, so does one of the brain’s reward centers.
“That longing for the past might be a protective mechanism,” says Tim Wildschut, a professor. His work also suggests a more primitive purpose for the feeling: it developed to remind our ancient ancestors of pleasant physical feelings during periods of discomfort and pain.
Recent research suggests the occasional look backwards can give us a boost in unnoticeable ways: by increasing self-respect and protecting against depression. Nostalgia’s apparent power to jump-start one’s memory also seems to improve recall ability in people with Alzheimer’s disease.
New flavors of “reminiscence therapy” (回忆疗法) are emerging around the world. In 2018, the George G. Glenner Alzheimer’s Family Centers opened its first Town Square, an adult daycare facility designed to look like a small town in 1950s America. Though Town Square has yet to publish peer-reviewed data on the success of the program, clients say it has helped seniors access dusty memories and reconnect with loved ones.
Scientists need a lot more information to adequately characterize this complex and bittersweet feeling. But while centuries of doctors considered nostalgia a deadly disease, we now know: it can help us make it through today.
23. What is Paragraph 4 mainly about
A. What nostalgia means. B. Why nostalgia matters.
C. How nostalgia works. D. When nostalgia emerges.
24. How might nostalgia benefit people
A. It helps us face unpleasant situations. B. It gives seniors a sense of security.
C. It makes people’s mind sharp. D. It improves people’s instant memory.
25. Why does the author mention Town Square
A. To reveal a phenomenon of emotion.
B. To demonstrate the use of a research
C. To explore the advantage of a treatment.
D. To interpret the concept of a therapy finding.
D
If you think about it, work-life balance is a strange ambition for a fulfilling life. Balance is about stasis: if our lives were ever in balance-parents happy, kids taken care of, work working-then our overriding thought would be to shout “Nobody move!” and pray all would stay perfect forever. This false hope is made worse by the categories themselves. They imply that work is bad, and life is good. And so the challenge, we are told, is to balance the heaviness of work with the lightness of life.
Yet work is not the opposite of life. It is instead a part of life-just as family is, as are friends and community. All of these aspects of living have their share of uplifting moments and moments that drag us down. The same is true of work. Treat work the same way you do life: by maximizing what you love.
We have interviewed several anesthesiologists (麻醉师) about the thrills they feel in their jobs. One said he loved the thrill of holding each patient hovering at that one precise point between life and death. Another said she loved the bedside conversations before the operation aiming to calm the panic that affects many patients. Another was drawn mostly to the anesthetic mechanism and has devoted himself to defining precisely how each drug does what it does.
Think of your life’s many different activities as threads. Some are black and some are white. But some of these activities appear to be made of a different substance. These activities contain all the tell-tale signs of love: before you do them, you find yourself looking forward to them; while you’re doing them, time speeds up and you find yourself in flow; and after you’ve done them, you feel energetic. These are your red threads, and research by the Mayo Clinic suggests that doctors who weave the fabric of their life with at least 20% red threads are significantly less likely to experience burnout.
The simplest way for you to do this is to spend a week in love with your job. During the week, any time you find yourself feeling one of the signs of love write down exactly what you were doing in the column “Love”. And any time you find yourself feeling the inverse write down what you were doing in the column “Loathe”. By the end of the week you will see a list of activities in your “Love” column, which create in you a positive feeling, one that draws you in and lifts you up.
Our goal should be to, little by little, week by week, intentionally unbalance all aspects of our work toward the former and away from the latter. Not simply to make us feel better, but so that our colleagues, our friends and our family can all benefit from us at our very best.
26. What is the author’s attitude towards work-life balance
A. Doubtful. B. Disapproving.
C. Supportive. D. Neutral.
27. The author uses three anesthesiologists as examples to ________.
A. prove people benefit from work
B. indicate doctors take pride in their work
C. show people gain joy from different situations
D. imply doctors reduce the pressure of work successfully
28. “Red threads” in Paragraph 4 refer to the activities that ________.
A. arouse your passion B. satisfy your desires
C. improve your motivation D. require your efforts
29. Which of the following does the author probably agree with
A. Red threads are necessary for a balanced life.
B. Recording activities helps create positive feeling.
C. Find love in work instead of keeping work-life balance.
D. Maximize what you love to remove the heaviness from work.
第四节 七选五 (共5小题，每小题2分，共10分)
根据短文内容，从短文后的七个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。
When people succeed, it is because of hard work,but luck has a lot to do with it.___30___Napoleon once said all the hard work and talent in the world can’t make up for bad luck. However, hard work can invite good luck.
When it comes to success, luck can mean being in the right place to meet someone. Nothing can replace hard work, but working hard also means you’re preparing yourself for opportunity.___31___
How many of the great inventions and discoveries came about through a lucky mistake or a lucky chance One of the biggest lucky mistakes in history is Columbus’ so-called discovery of America. He changed history, but he was really looking for India.___32___It was backed up by years of studying and calculating.
Success comes from pure luck and no hard work can be a real problem.___33___Imagine she’s been picked from nowhere because of her looks. She is going to feel insecure, because she knows she didn’t do anything to earn her stardom (演员身份). On the other hand, think about an actress who’s spent years learning and working. When she finally has good luck and becomes a success, she will handle stardom better. She knows she earns it.
___34___When it comes to success, I think that hard work and luck go hand in hand.
A. Opportunity often depends on luck.
B. Luck is also important in people’s life.
C. Success without some luck is almost impossible.
D. Hard work plays a very important part in success.
E. However, Columbus’ chance discovery wasn’t pure luck.
F. For example, consider a teenage girl who becomes a movie star.
G. People who work hard help make their own luck by being ready when opportunity knocks.
第五节：阅读回答问题 (共5个小题；每小题2分，共10分)
阅读下面短文和问题，根据短文内容和每小题后的具体要求，在答题卡相应题号后的横线上写下相关信息，完成对该问题的回答。
阅读下面短文和问题，根据短文内容和每小题后的具体要求，在答题卡相应题号后的横线上写下相关信息，完成对该问题的回答。
Sea shanties are work songs created and sung by sailors (水手). Using a sea shanty is believed to have started to fight against the boring nature of days on the ships and have helped them work smoothly aboard throughout the months-long journeys.
These songs were sung when the sailors worked. Interestingly, the shanties tell much more. They mirror a region’s past. Different shanties reflect different kinds of onboard work taken on by sailors in those times.
The sea shanties’ rhythms (韵律) helped sailors work well together. Thus, these work songs focused on the rhythm and beat, allowing every sailor to sing and be part of the group.
Similarly, it wasn’t expected of the sailors to have excellent singing skills, as the only purpose of these songs was to help the sailors work more orderly.
The benefits of the sea shanties are obvious. According to professor Gerry Smyth, the sea shanties create a sense of community and purpose among sailors of sea shipment in the 1700s and the 1800s. The professor has also authored the sailor song: The Shanties and Ballads of the High Seas. He argues that they were created to match the tasks the sailors regularly did. For example, if the ships were being pulled, the shanty would be about the physical effort being put in. Everyone would pull to the rhythm of the song.
35. What are sea shanties (不多于七个单词)
___________________________________________
36. When did the sailors use the sea shanties (不多于四个单词)
___________________________________________
37. What did the sea shanties focus on (不多于四个单词)
___________________________________________
38. What was the purpose of the sea shanties (不多于七个单词)
___________________________________________
39. What is the last paragraph mainly about (不多于六个单词)
___________________________________________
第六节：选词填空用方框里所给词的正确形式填空共6题，每题1分，共6分)
选词填空用方框里所给词的正确形式填空
influence appreciate occasion depress sincere motivate
40. She’s been very upset and ________ about the increasingly worse situation.
41. I’ve had ________ headaches over the past three years, but they were not serious.
42. We ________ hope that you will soon be recovered to health.
43. Being grateful means you are always ________ of what you have and what other people have done for you.
44. He is a bright student, but he lacks the ________ to learn new things.
45. Yuan Longping was one of the most ________ scientists in agriculture in China.
第七节：翻译句子 (3道题，每题2分，共6分)
46. 袁隆平把自己的毕生精力都奉献给了稻米生产。(devote…to…) （汉译英）
_________________________________________.
47. 我将尽我一份力量去帮助保护环境。(do one’s part) （汉译英）
_________________________________________.
48. 就是你额外做的那么一点点使你不同于你的竞争者们。(set...apart from)
The little extra thing you have done _________________________________________.
第八节：应用文写作 (共20分)
49. 假定你是李华，你的英国笔友Jim最近在学校参与了“成功人物主题分享会”，他给你写信询问你心中的成功人物是谁。请你给Jim写一封回信。
要点如下：
1. 你心中成功人物的身份与基本信息；
2. 该人物的奋斗历程与核心成就；
3. 说明该人物对你的影响；
注意：1. 词数100左右；2. 开头结尾已给出不计入总词数。
Dear Jim,
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Yours,
Li Hua
