湖北武汉市2026-2027学年高中毕业生9月调研考试英语试卷

第二部分阅读（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

Teen Summer Writing Fellowship at GrubStreet Center for Creative Writing

If you are a high school student who loves writing, a creative writing summer camp can give you the opportunity to focus intensively on your craft. Whether you are interested in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, or playwriting, this program enables you to explore your chosen area in depth and develop your writing skills through regular practice.

The Teen Summer Writing Fellowship at GrubStreet is a three-week program that brings together high school writers to practice and experiment with different forms of writing. Participants engage in the world of literature while exploring fiction, nonfiction, poetry, screenwriting, and genres and styles such as suspense fiction, poetic novels, and magical realism. Each day, they take part in writing sessions, feedback workshops, open-mic readings, and talks by guest authors. The program also introduces participants to the publishing world and offers guidance on pursuing a career in writing. It concludes with a final presentation of their work.

Participants can also sign up for a fourth or fifth week to help edit and format pieces for the YAWP (Young Adult Writers & Poets) Anthology, a collection of writing by teens who have participated in GrubStreet’s previous summer programs.

21.What can students do at the creative writing camp?

A.Chair feedback workshops.

B.Publish their prior works.

C.Interview previous campers.

D.Explore various literary forms.

22.What should participants do if they want to help with the YAWP Anthology?

A.Apply for the camp in July.

B.Stay in the program after August 8.

C.Pay extra fees for two more weeks.

D.Present their works to guest authors.

23.What is the purpose of the text?

A.To advocate creative writing.

B.To introduce a writing program.

C.To appeal to fiction lovers.

D.To search for literary talents.

B

Most of us have secret gardens where we can relax, stretch and refresh. For me, since I can remember, that world has been books.

As with many children, books first drew me in through their illustrations. My love of colour was stimulated by the original Babar books; my understanding of lines comes from the OurWullie annuals, or Tintin. Later, the words became more important to me. I was not happy at boarding school, but I loved spending time in its library. Books became my private garden. So it was no surprise that I studied English at university.

Today “English literature” is in sharp decline among senior-level exam subjects and some universities are ceasing to offer it. This is a quiet cultural disaster, one in which we are stealing their best future from our children. It may not lead directly to a good-paying office job. But it has given people like me a reliable friend.

Later, work and family made it harder for me to read. As a journalist, I had many deadlines, and as a mother, I often had little time because of children and money worries. Sometimes I read while standing on a moving bus or train. It was difficult, but I kept reading. Every year, I still looked forward to new books by Ian McEwan and many other writers, such as Penelope Fitzgerald and Donna Tartt. Each book gave me a new world to explore and a new friend to meet.

At this point, readers may ask whether I would have been better off living — meeting and talking to fleshy actual humans or playing sports. Well, I don’t spend all my life on a sofa with books all around me. There seems to be time for chat and laughter. But without deep and repeated reading of writers who millions of other people have already found friendly and helpful, my life would just be so much narrower and meaner. The great books remain, across most of a lifetime, my secret garden.

24.What first attracted the author to books as a child?

A.The plots.

B.The titles.

C.The pictures.

D.The reviews.

25.What does the author think of “English literature”?

A.Spiritually comforting.

B.Academically difficult.

C.Economically rewarding.

D.Practically advantageous.

26.What does paragraph 4 mainly tell us about the author?

A.Her busy life.

B.Her favorite writers.

C.Her reading on trips.

D.Her insistence on reading.

27.What does the author intend to do in the last paragraph?

A.Analyze a current trend.

B.Defend her point of view.

C.Show readers’ misunderstanding of books.

D.Prove the importance of real-life activities.

C

Want to lose fat? There’s one method scientifically proven to work: eating a little less food than your body needs to fuel itself each day. Do that, and your body starts using its energy reserves — its stored fat — to make up the deficit.

It sounds straightforward. You dutifully keep track of the calories in every meal to make sure your daily intake stays less than your fixed limit, but the number on your weight scale never changes at all. It’s frustrating and disheartening. But there’s good news: you’re not to blame.

Recent scientific findings suggest it’s almost impossible to count calories with any degree of accuracy, which explains why trying to lose weight by calorie counting is so hard. It’s not bad maths that trips most of us up, though. Generally, unless you diligently log every ingredient before you eat, humans just aren’t very good at recalling exactly what was on their plate, let alone the handful of snacks they ate without thinking. Given all that, it’s no surprise that studies suggest the average person underestimates their daily consumption by around 30 per cent (roughly 600-750 calories), or about 10 digestive biscuits.

The very idea of working out calorie amounts is problematic. And that’s before we even consider the effect your individual biology can have. For instance, a 2023 study tested theoutcomes of giving people a high-fibre diet, designed to feed their gut microbes (肠道菌群). With growing microbial communities in their guts, the scientists found that the participants in the study lost a little bit of weight — without eating less or feeling hungry — because they were absorbing fewer calories from their food.

“That means, depending on what you eat and how many microbes are thriving (旺盛繁殖) in your gut, some calories are used by you, while others feed the microbes.” says Professor Rosa Brown, a co-author of the study.

If all this is starting to make you think that calorie monitoring might be off the menu, you’d be right.

28.What does the underlined word “deficit” in paragraph 1 mean?

A.Database.

B.Shortfall.

C.Nutrition.

D.Weight.

29.What makes it hard for dieters to count calories?

A.Inaccuracy of intake records.

B.Lack of tracking approaches.

C.Absence of scientific evidence.

D.Complexity of calculation procedures.

30.What can we learn from the 2023 study?

A.Calorie absorption may vary.

B.Eating less means losing weight.

C.Fibre reduces people’s hunger.

D.Food calories determine body weight.

31.Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

A.Forget the Strict Diet

B.Simplify Your Calorie Log

C.Skip the Dietary Math

D.Adjust Your Diet Structure

D

Food markets have experienced considerable instability in recent years. Global warming is causing droughts, soil desertification and extreme weather. Yet the fundamentals of food production were last transformed in the mid-20th century. Fortunately, global investments in agricultural innovation are on the rise. Funds for agritech companies reached $16.2billionin2025.Ofthis, $9 billion went to new research into boosting farm yields, up from $2.5 billion in 2016. The focus of sustainability efforts is switching from preventing climate change to dealing with it and finding solutions.

Scientists are developing alternatives to the pesticides and fertilisers that have dominated modern agriculture since the Green Revolution of the mid-20th century, based on a betterunderstanding of plants themselves. B-COS, a team from Ghent University, is genetically engineering bacteria to produce a special kind of molecule (分子). Tomato and potato plants sprayed (喷洒) with the molecules are tricked into believing they are under attack and activate their natural defenses against infection. B-COS is applying this approach to two new products: one to improve growth and drought tolerance, and another which it claims can reduce disease incidence by 40-50%.

Naturally, there are also companies exploring the opportunities presented by artificial intelligence. The general idea of this combination is called “precision agriculture”, which is to help farmers connect everything from the environmental conditions of individual fields to the genetic sequences (序列) of the bacteria present in the soil, and those of the plants themselves. This is then run through AI models that make predictions about the best conditions and treatments to achieve the highest yields or produce the highest-quality crops.

“It is going to show us what’s going on in each square metre of the fields, such as temperature, water and carbon absorption,” says Mr. Anders, a managing partner of an agritech company.

There is still a long way to go. In 2024, agricultural tech companies attracted just 1.3% of global early-stage venture-capital funding despite agriculture accounting for about 4% of global GDP. But if high-tech innovations still make their way, and the funds keep flowing, a new age of precision agriculture is coming.

32.What is highlighted concerning agricultural investment in paragraph 1?

A.Its instability.

B.Its source.

C.Its influence.

D.Its shift.

33.Why did the B-COS team spray the molecules on tomato and potato plants?

A.To evaluate disease tolerance.

B.To eliminate harmful substances.

C.To boost natural resistance.

D.To protect healthy plants.

34.What does “precision agriculture” contribute to?

A.Accurate market forecasting.

B.Efficient harvesting techniques.

C.Sufficient genetic information.

D.Reasonable agricultural planning.

35.What is thethe author’s purpose in presenting the data in the last paragraph?

A.To call for greater investment.

B.To warn of potential risks.

C.To cast light on the achievements.

D.To give credit to the companies.

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可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Imagine you’re a kid in an elementary school. You have spent all morning learning new words and practicing multiplication. Then finally, it is time for a break. You run out of the stuffy school building, only to find a large area of burning hot blacktop.    36   . Due to decades of paving entire schoolyards to reduce maintenance costs, this is the reality for thousands of city school children. Lamont was one of them.

Lack of access to nature does more than reduce social and emotional well-being. Asphalt (沥青) surfaces absorb and give off more heat, creating the “heat island effect,” which can negatively impact human health.    37   . When rainwater washes these substances away, they end up polluting rivers and streams.

However, thanks to Reflo and his partners, these lifeless blacktops are being replaced with rich natural environments where kids can learn and play. During the three-year design process, each school chooses which natural elements they want to include, from pollinator (传粉者) gardens to soccer fields to micro-forests. Most schools will include a bioswale (低洼地) that manages stormwater.    38   . The new schoolyards are built over the summer to minimize the impact on the academic year, and the habitats support wildlife, like butterflies and bees.

“   39   ,” said Lamont. “Thousands of young people, including some of the most socially and economically disadvantaged children, will have significantly better experiences, and they can take a lot of pride in their schools.”

Schoolyards are the best strategic investment for environmental improvement.    40   . These benefits, in turn, contribute to improved academic performance. What’s more, once the school day is over, the schoolyards are open to the public and serve as community parks.

A.They also concentrate pollutants

B.Reflo’s work is truly transformational

C.They will also add outdoor classrooms

D.There isn’t a single tree or any grass in sight

E.The flat surface seems perfect for playing games

F.Nature reduces stress and boosts creative thinking

G.These surfaces prevent water from entering the ground

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四个选项中选出最佳选项。

I assumed being good meant not harming the world. But that understanding changed after I moved back home.

One day, while walking the dog, I    41    my grandpa, Nicholas, who lived in the same village with us. He held a litter picker in one hand and a bag filled with rubbish in the other, with obvious    42    on his face.

I knew he wanted to keep the village tidy, but I had no idea of his    43    to the cause. He spends an hour or so each day litter picking — the extreme version, where no rubbish, no matter how    44    it is to reach, will go unpicked. He’s even prepared to risk a fall into the canal to    45    floating branches. The lengths he goes to are as worrying as they are    46   .

I’d always considered myself a    47    citizen — I never littered, but neither did I    48    with other people’s mess. Yet after seeing my grandpa’s efforts, it was hard not to get    49   . I began following my grandpa’s example, picking up every takeaway cup I passed. And my efforts soon    50    litter picking. Once, after a storm, I spent half an hour    51    the newly planted trees blown over by the wind.

My experience with litter    52    my way of life. I began to pursue more    53    ways of shopping, eating and drinking whenever possible, like buying less packaged food. Being a good citizen means more than simply    54    being “bad”. It’s about making a practical effort to    55    change, however small it is.

41. A. followedB. questionedC. encounteredD. attended

42. A. painB. prideC. sympathyD. curiosity

43. A. commitmentB. responseC. objectionD. witness

44. A. convenientB. worthwhileC. difficultD. useless

45. A. cutB. throwC. shakeD. remove

46. A. flexibleB. disappointingC. admirableD. heartbreaking

47. A. decentB. modestC. open-mindedD. well-informed

48. A. breakB. partC. liveD. bother

49. A. involvedB. disturbedC. excitedD. separated

50. A. rooted inB. centered onC. led toD. went beyond

51. A. rightingB. appreciatingC. observingD. shading

52. A. supportedB. restrictedC. reshapedD. assessed

53. A. fashionableB. sustainableC. innovativeD. temporary

54. A. riskingB. imaginingC. regrettingD. avoiding

55. A. resistB. effectC. manageD. notice

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。

Last month, a group of international visual creators and bloggers from nine countries    56    (tour) the Yungang Grottoes (洞穴) and the Hanging Temple in Datong, Shanxi province, to learn about ancient architecture and achievements in digital    57    (preserve).

The Yungang Grottoes were first carved during the Northern Wei Dynasty, making them China’s first large-scale royal grotto complex    58    (construct) after the introduction of Buddhism. Local authorities    59    (advance) digital conservation efforts and research on Yungang studies since 2003.

Fabio Nodari, an Italian photographer, visited Shanxi for the second time. In his view, the Yungang Grottoes represents the combination of multiple ethnic groups and diverse cultures. “The statues’    60    (face) features, colorful costumes, and decorative patterns contain a wealth of foreign cultural elements integrated with Chinese artistic elements, forming a distinctive style    61    their own among China’s art treasures,” he said. Veldesen Yaputra, a blogger from Indonesia, said after the show, “Digital technology allows us    62    (visualize) the grotto statues, and also helps audiences truly appreciate    63    ancient craftsmen created architectural miracles.”

   64    tour group recorded their visits in the form of short videos, photography and paintings,    65    (share) Shanxi’s stories with audiences at home and abroad. Their works are part of Discovering Shanxi’s Ancient Chinese Architecture, a visual journey through cultural heritage recently launched by China Daily and Shanxi Daily.

第四部分写作（共两节；满分40分）

第一节（满分15分）

高三学习生活即将开始，你班英语老师要求同学们在课前演讲活动中分享一个能够激励自己前行的英文单词，并说明理由。请你以“A Word That Drives Me Forward”为题写一篇演讲稿。

注意：

（1）写作词数应为80左右；

（2）请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

第二节（满分25分）

阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之成为一篇完整的短文。

Leo was not excited about spending his Saturday afternoons at the Oakwood Nursing Home. It was a requirement for his high school graduation, but to him, the place smelled like old medicine and boredom. He usually spent his shifts doing the bare minimum: passing out water cups and avoiding eye contact.

His least favorite resident was Mr. Henderson, a grumpy (暴躁的)80-year-old man who always sat in a wheelchair in the far corner of the recreation room. Mr. Henderson never smiled, never joined the group activities, and frequently complained about the “noisy teenagers”. Leo made sure to keep his distance, annoyed by the constant complaints. Yet there was one thing Leo had noticed about the old man. Mr. Henderson always kept a small, worn-out songbook on his lap.

One stormy Saturday, the nursing home was hosting its monthly music hour. The residents were gathered in the hall, eagerly waiting for the local volunteer band to arrive. However, at 2:00 p.m., the activity coordinator (协调员), Sarah, rushed in looking panicked. “The band’s bus broke down on the way here,” she announced, her voice shaking slightly. “They can’t make it.”

A wave of disappointment swept through the room. Some residents sighed heavily; others lowered their heads. Sarah looked around helplessly, her eyes landing on an old, dusty piano in the corner of the room. “Does anyone know how to play?” she asked the room.

Leo froze. He had been playing the piano since he was six and was exceptionally good at it. But the thought of playing in front of a crowd terrified him. He looked at the floor, hoping nobody would notice him. But then, he glanced up at the residents. For the first time, Leo didn’t see a room full of annoying strangers. He saw disappointed people who had been looking forward to this small moment of joy. His eyes stopped at Mr. Henderson, noticing the usual anger had disappeared from his face. Instead, he was staring silently at the empty piano.

注意：（1）续写词数应为150左右；

（2）请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

At that moment, Leo made a decision.

To everyone’s surprise, a rough, shaky voice began to sing along to the music.

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