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北京市朝阳区 2025-2026 学年高三上学期期中质量检测英语试题
高三英语试卷
(考试时间90分钟 满分100分)
本试卷共10页。考生务必在答题卡指定区域作答，在试卷上作答无效。
第一部分 知识运用(共两节，30分)
第一节(共10小题;每小题1.5分，共15分)
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在
答题卡上将该项涂黑。
When Officer Eric Robbins responded to a 911 call, he didn’t know he’d be facing his worst fear. Neighbours
reported a five-year-old boy wandering on the roof of a nearby house. The child didn’t seem frightened of the 30-foot
drop awaiting him. Robbins could feel it though, and he knew he had to take action. However, there was one ____1____:
he was deathly afraid of heights.
Choosing ____2____ over fear, Robbins charged up the stairs and out of the open window. Quickly yet carefully,
he just ____3____ the kid and started trying to map out how he could ____4____ grab the kid without shocking
him and not fall off the roof. “I don’t think he knew I was there,” Robbins told the local news. “It felt like forever
because I’m scared of heights.” Amazingly, he ____5____ the boy and pulled him away from the edge, completing the
rooftop rescue without injury to either of them.
The parents were ____6____ that their son was back inside safe. They were grateful to all the officers of the
police department, but especially Robbins. “As a parent, I cannot express how much it means to know there are
officers committed to ____7____ and serving with such sympathy,” wrote the parents in a thank-you letter. Robbins
was ____8____ by the parents’ gratitude and revealed that it could have been his kid and someone would do the
same.
Many would believe what Robbins did was brave even if he wasn’t afraid of heights, but the knowledge of his
fear made his heroic behaviour even more ____9____. This act of heroism is more than a rescue; it’s a reminder of
the human ____10____ behind the badge (警徽).
1. A. excuse B. mistake C. problem D. accident
2. A. duty B. trust C. justice D. security
3. A. ran into B. picked up C. locked onto D. knocked over
.
4 A. politely B. safely C. warmly D. casually
5. A. hit B. tied C. lowered D. reached
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7. A. cooperating B. protecting C. volunteering D. instructing
8. A. inspired B. humbled C. comforted D. challenged
9. A. complex B. common C. impressive D. mysterious
10. A. courage B. honesty C. patience D. confidence
第二节(共10小题;每小题1.5分，共15分)
A
阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个恰当的单词，在给出提示词的空白
处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。
Gary Sigley, an Australian professor, says his 90-something mother still enjoys Chinese tea each day. A few
years ago, he made her a cup of Pu’er tea, ___11___ marked her first encounter with Chinese tea. “I placed Pu’er
on her palm,” he recalls. “At that moment, an elderly Australian woman ___12___ (hold) a cup of Yunnan tea. I
suddenly realized that tea is a medium of friendship between different nations and peoples. It is a cultural treasure
___13___ (share) with the world by the Chinese people.”
B
阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个恰当的单词，在给出提示词的空白
处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。
Just like exercise and sleep, engaging with art is a necessity for a fulfilled life. According to a survey, only 30
percent of adults ___14___ (attend) a concert of any type in 2017. Even today, the figure most likely remains low
mainly because we don’t have time to appreciate art — we are weighed down by daily ___15___ (responsibility).
We see art as unimportant, but it offers the most realistic glimpse (短暂的感受) we ever get into the nature and
meaning of life. And if we make time ___16___ art, we’ll find our life getting fuller and happier.
C
阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个恰当的单词，在给出提示词的空白
处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。
The “emotional economy” is emerging. ___17___ matters most in the transactions (交易) is not a physical
product, but emotions. Normally, products ___18___ (sell) based on their features. However, as material needs are
met, consumers have started to seek emotional value. Forward-thinking brands have already grasped the concept of
emotional selling and are using storytelling as a tool. When they introduce a new product, it’s not just about its
functionality, but about how it will enhance the user’s lifestyle, ___19___ (enable) them to express themselves more
freely. As technology continues to advance, AI has the potential ___20___ (create) highly immersive emotional
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第二部分 阅读理解(共两节，38分)
第一节(共14小题;每小题2分，共28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，并在答题卡上将该
项涂黑。
A
Winter break is the perfect opportunity for teens to establish healthy habits and stay active Planet Fitness has
tailored a program, Planet Fitness Pass, to make fitness accessible and fun for students. Students entering grades 9
through 12 can enjoy a safe and welcoming gym environment with no pressure to commit to a full membership. This
special seasonal program is designed to fit the busy schedules of high schoolers, either a professional athlete or a
gym fitness beginner, providing a judgment-free environment, strength-training machines, and youth-friendly group
classes.
Requirements:
To qualify for the program, students must:
● Present proof of school enrollment (入学登记).
● Be between 14 and 18 years old at the time of registration.
● Register online or at any participating Planet Fitness club.
● Complete a brief parental approval form for first-time teen members.
● Agree to follow all club rules, including safety guidelines and age-restricted equipment usage.
Activate and use Planet Fitness Pass:
Step 1: Open the welcome email or app and download the digital pass QR code (二维码).
Step 2: Present the QR code and a school ID at the front desk — staff will confirm your identity and check
.
you in
,
Step 3: Explore the Teen Fitness Zone teen-friendly classes, and open training areas.
Step 4: Check class schedules and reserve your spot via the app for popular sessions.
Step 5: After each workout, cool down in the rest zone or visit the recovery facilities.
The app also tracks your visit history and class attendance to help you monitor progress, stay motivated, and set
new fitness milestones.
21. What can we learn about Planet Fitness Pass?
A. It offers teens exercise classes. B. It guarantees teens a full membership.
C. It assesses teens’ physical performance. D. It prefers teens with workout experiences.
22. To qualify for the program, students must ______.
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B. register with their parents
C. fit into the proper age group
D. be the first-time teen members
23. To check-in at a Planet Fitness club, students need to ______.
A. submit their visit history
B. present their welcome email
C. show their QR code and school ID
D. confirm a reservation for a fitness class
B
My middle school taught the periodic table (元素周期表) in the eighth grade. From the beginning, I fell in love
with the element “Bismuth” (Bi). It comes in absolutely beautiful colours and grows in square shapes that can be
changed during the growing process with music.
Now, Bi is not exactly as common as Hydrogen or Oxygen so it wasn’t an element we talked about much in
class. However, whenever the opportunity arrived, I would bring it up and express how much I liked it. It kind of
became a joke that on the occasion when it was brought up, my classmates would look over at me and kind of
laugh.
One day we were in class like normal and I was in a bad mood. Mrs. Mennon, the teacher of this class, had a
rule that if you finished your work early, you had to do extra work. All I wanted to do was draw or play games. I
remember sitting there and just thinking, “She is out of her mind! What’s the point in making us do extra work?”
,
Literally as I was thinking about this Mrs. Mennon called my name aloud, “Henry! Come here.” I was worried I
had somehow said my thoughts out loud, but that wasn’t it at all. When I got to the desk she explained that she had
been at a resource fair for science teachers to buy some new supplies for the class. She then held out her hand and
gave me a tiny piece of Bi, and said she had seen it and immediately thought of me. My face lit up and couldn’t thank
her enough. She said that was all and I went back to my seat.
In my head, I had been complaining about Mrs. Mennon and her rule all without knowing she had done something
extremely kind for me. I felt horrible. I have teachers in my family, and I’ve seen the trouble they have to deal with,
but I hadn’t been thinking about how much they had done for us.
It’s been a long time since then. The Bi was a gift I will always cherish, but Mrs. Mennon also gave me a lesson. I
needed to hear.
24. What made the author’s classmates laugh when Bi was mentioned?
A. Bi’s unusual name. B. Bi’s unique properties.
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学科网（北京）股份有限公司C. The author’s knowledge of Bi. D. The author’s predictable reaction to Bi.
25. Why did Mrs. Mennon give the author a piece of Bi?
A. To support his keen interest. B. To comfort him for his low spirits.
C. To reward his extra work in the class. D. To arouse his curiosity about her class.
26. How did the author feel after receiving the gift?
A. Moved but confused. B. Excited but anxious.
C. Content but stressed. D. Grateful but guilty.
27. What can you learn from the story?
A. Gifts blind your eyes. B. Goodness favors growth.
C. A little interest goes a long way. D. Youthful errors define your future.
C
In 1884 Franz Boas returned from Baffin Island with a discovery that would kick off decades of linguistic
argument: by his count, the local Inuit (因纽特的) language had four words for snow, suggesting a link between
language and physical environment. In 1984, an article claimed the Inuit have “100 synonyms (近义词)” for the
frozen white stuff under a single term.
Recently, in a sweeping new computational analysis of world languages, researchers not only confirmed the
emphasis on snow in the Inuit language but also uncovered many similar patterns: what snow is to the Inuit, lava (岩浆) is
to Samoans. Charles Kemp, senior author of the study, says the results offer a window onto language speakers’
culture. “It’s a way to get a sense of the ‘chief interests of a people,’” he says.
The researchers analyzed bilingual dictionaries between English and more than 600 languages, looking for
“lexical elaboration” in which a language has many words related to a core concept. Often the elaboration is clearly
a product of environment — small wonder that Arabic, Farsi and Australian languages are filled with words to
describe the desert, and Sanskrit, Tamil and Thai with words for elephants. Other cases aren’t so straightforward.
Many Oceanic languages have highly specific words for smell. For example, jatbo means “smell of damp clothing.”
This may be explained by the dampness of the rainforest, which enhances smells.
Victor Mair, an expert on Chinese language, says this research helps resurrect the much-debated idea of
linguistic relativity, known as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which advocates that language determines how we perceive
things. But in Mair’s opinion, this study supports a softer claim: our brains all share the same basic machinery for
perceiving the world, which language can affect but not restrict. “It doesn’t determine,” he says. “It influences.”
Lynne Murphy, a linguist in England, notes that “any language should be able to talk about anything.” We may
not have the word jatbo, but four words of English do the trick — “smell of damp clothing.” It’s not that having many
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学科网（北京）股份有限公司precise words for smell reveals mind-blowing cognitive abilities for processing smell; it’s simply that single words
are more efficient than phrases, so they tend to represent common subjects of discussion, highlighting areas of cultural
significance. If we routinely needed to talk about the smell of damp clothing, we’d cut down that lengthy phrase to
something like jatbo.
It bears remembering that because all the bilingual dictionaries in this study map back to English — it’s the
language into which everything else gets translated — the analysis is influenced by the words used in English itself,
which raises the question: “If they had started from, say, Spanish or Chinese, which concepts would have stood out
for English?” says Murphy.
28. What can be inferred about “lexical elaboration”?
A. It reflects what a culture mainly cares.
B. It clarified why language patterns exist.
C. It resulted in a long-lasting linguistic debate.
D. It is used to generate synonyms under one concept.
29. What does the word “resurrect” underlined in Paragraph 4 most probably mean?
A. Replace. B. Restore. C. Release. D. Reject.
30. What can we learn from the passage?
A. A new word will emerge in response to its demand in daily life.
B. The pursuit of word-precision has enhanced our cognitive abilities.
C. The analysis of language helps increase the richness of vocabulary.
D. Comparisons between languages lead to the efficiency of word use.
D
In the fall of 1944, Norman Borlaug moved to Mexico to produce a new variety of wheat. Finally, he got lucky.
His wheat proved to be not just high-yielding (高产的) but also surprisingly varied. But, as proud as he was of his
seeds, Borlaug also saw their limits. When he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970, he used his Nobel address to
caution against self-satisfaction. The new varieties of wheat he had reproduced represented, he said, only a “temporary
success in man’s war against hunger.” The world’s population, he worried out loud, would continue to grow, and
eventually the demand for food would again outpace the supply.
Now in 2025, Michael Grunwald says in his new book, We Are Eating the Earth, that humanity is facing “some
terrible math.” On one side of the equation is the growing need for food. On the other side is climate change.
Agriculture is a major source of greenhouse gases, depending on how you calculate it. We need to “feed the world
without frying the world” is how Grunwald puts it.
What’s to be done? A good first step, Grunwald advocates, would be to stop making things worse. We could
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学科网（北京）股份有限公司start with biofuels. Every year in the US, some fourteen billion gallons of a corn-based additive get mixed in gas. The
practice is supposed to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. Almost certainly, though, it has the opposite outcome.
Redirecting corn from grocery stores to gas tanks pushes up goods prices — which, in turn, encourages farmers to
change forests into cropland. Since forests store a lot of carbon, cutting down them increases atmospheric \( CO_2
\). Grunwald quotes a song:
Biofuel use is gonna burn up all my food
Deforestation can only ruin our nation.
Immoral men with that bad intention
What is your plan? Is it life or ruination?
Were it not for Borlaug, the world in the late twentieth century would have been a very different place. In the
eight years since Borlaug arrived in Mexico, farming in much of the world has been transformed. New tools that
could make farms even more productive are constantly being developed. At the same time, the world, too, has been
transformed, by such things as climate change, groundwater exhaustion, and soil pollution. The new tools and the
new threats are bound up in each other—two sides, as it were, of the same leaf. If it is reasonable to imagine that we
will, somehow or other, find ways to feed ten billion people, it is also reasonable to fear how much damage will be
done in the process.
31. What are the first two paragraphs mainly about?
A. The downstream consequences of food shortage.
B. The significance of inventing high-productive seeds.
C. The problems humans face in the course of development.
D. Two contrary perspectives on the growing demand for food.
32. Why does the author mention the song?
A. To illustrate a current attempt of biofuels.
B. To reveal convention is still better than innovation.
C. To raise public awareness of redirecting food for fuel.
D. To prove good intentions may bring about bad results.
33. What can we learn from the passage?
A. Farming transformation lacks recognition.
B. The issue of hunger should be prioritized.
C. It is urgent to treat human-caused damage.
D. We need view food and environment as one.
34. Which would be the best title for the passage?
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B. Farming: Will It Be Life without Ruination?
C. Is Agriculture to Blame for Climate Change?
D. Environment: Are We Transforming or Harming It?
第二节(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，并在答题卡上将该项
涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。
There’s just something about Labubu. You hear the sound of opening a blind box, see that cheeky smile and
suddenly you’re attracted. But once the excitement fades, you can’t help but wonder, why do we keep chasing more,
even when we already have enough?
Evolutionary psychology gives us a fascinating answer. A lot of what we do comes from what once helped our
ancestors survive. ___35___ That could mean the difference between thriving (繁荣) and going without. Over
generations, we’ve been wired to find joy in having more than we require.
Labubu represents a modern form of this instinct (本能). The blind-box model mirrors ancestral uncertainty:
investing effort toward an uncertain payoff with the possibility of a rare, high-status “secret” find. The uncertainty of
the reward activates dopamine pathways in the brain. ___36___ This explains why collectors sometimes keep buying
long after they’ve achieved their goal.
___37___ When collecting remains a source of joy and social connection, it can be adaptive. Many Labubu
collectors share mini furniture, and fan-made content. ___38___ But when over-marketing and rocketing resale
prices step in, the whole environment changes. Suddenly, it’s less about the joy of owning something you love and
more about showing off or reselling it for a profit.
In questioning whether hoarding is simply collecting gone mad, it becomes clear that human psychology hasn’t
fundamentally changed. Social media, over-marketing, and resale culture supercharge ancient drives. The challenge
is to keep those drives in balance. ___39___ Ask yourself: Does it truly spark joy or creativity? In the end, Labubu is
more than a toy. It’s a little mirror, reflecting both our ancient instincts and modern anxieties, and showing just how
easily a fun hobby can tip into full-blown craze.
A. Collect what brings genuine pleasure.
B. But how does collecting slip into disorder?
C. Buyers don’t know which figure they will get.
D. Back then, collecting was about saving tools or food for later use.
E. Collecting becomes a problem when possessions damage our daily life.
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学科网（北京）股份有限公司F. It makes us “want” the experience even when we already “have” enough.
G. Such are forms of self-expression that enrich rather than mess up our life.
第三部分 书面表达(共两节，32分)
第一节(共4小题;第40、41题各2分，第42题3分，第43题5分，共12分)
阅读下面短文，根据题目要求用英文回答问题。
When I began my Ph. D. in science four years ago, I started feeling like a fish out of water. Everyone around me
seemed to be driven by their burning love of science. I felt out of place, uninspired, and incompetent. “Mary, don’t
worry. It’s just self-doubt,” everyone told me. For years, I believed them, thinking that with more experience and
confidence, things would change.
,
But as time went on the feelings only got stronger. The idea of quitting made me feel relieved. But I knew I
had too much fight in me to leave my program. So I decided to get my degree and then pursue something else
entirely.
Partly in search of this “something else,” I began writing. At first, I mainly used it as a creative outlet. But
eventually, it led me to explore science communication. In writing about newly published scientific papers, I felt
curious, enlightened, and empowered. I began to entertain the idea that my problem wasn’t self-doubt — maybe I
truly was a fish out of water, and all I needed to do was leave my life on land.
I decided to tell my academic teachers about my new passion. However, they could not understand why I would
want to pursue anything other than research. Truthfully, I did worry about what my life would look like if I left the
world of scientific research. I expressed my concerns to a writing teacher. “Follow your heart, and the rest will
follow,” she told me. I knew in my heart that I wanted to pursue science communication after graduation. And once
I chose to trust that feeling, I found that I no longer struggled to breathe. I still felt out of place in academic research.
But I now knew where I belonged and how to get there.
40. How did the author feel when she began Ph. D. in science?
_____________________________________________________________
41. What did the author use as a creative outlet?
_____________________________________________________________
42. Please decide which part is false in the following statement, then underline it and explain why.
After learning about the author’s concerns, the writing teacher encouraged her to quit scientific research
immediately.
_____________________________________________________________
43. Use an example to show how you would apply the inspiration from the story in your life. (In about 40 words)
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第二节(20分)
44. 假设你是红星中学高三学生李华。你的外国好友 Jim的学校正在组织“校园文化建设”(Shaping School
Culture)的创意征集活动。Jim打算参加，为此发来邮件，就创意内容询问你的建议。请你用英文给他回复，
内容包括：
1.你的建议;
2.说明理由。
注意：1.词数100左右;
2.开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Jim,
____________________________________________________________________________________________
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Yours,
Li Hua
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