2026 届高考英语压轴精卷（北京专用）
（考试时间：100 分钟 试卷满分：100 分）
注意事项：
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第一部分：知识运用（共两节，30 分）
第一节 完形填空（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，并在答题纸上
将该选项涂黑。
At 13 years old, I took a long trip to London alone. When I sat down on the coach, an elderly gray-haired man
1 and asked if he could sit beside me. “Of course!” He looked 2 , so I avoided eye contact as he settled.
“Hi, I’m Sam.” I awkwardly offered my right hand.
“... George.” He paused before accepting it.
Then, our chat 3 . Charles had never left the country or rarely talked to strangers, while I, a third -
culture kid, grew up with friends from around the world. As we learned more about each other, we both seemed to
relax. Listening to George, I felt thankful for his company, age contrast notwithstanding. It’s often our experiences
that 4 us, not age.
Our conversation was interrupted by my growling stomach. I took out a sandwich and handed George another
one. “Would you eat with me?” At first, he refused in shock. But the determination on my face must have been very
5 . After a moment’s hesitation, he accepted it.
As silence settled in, I felt myself falling asleep.
The sudden tap on my shoulder made me 6 in my seat. It was George, ready to get off the bus. As I
extended my hand for a final handshake, he 7 it in both of his, looking directly at me, his eyes full of 8
. “Thank you for being so kind to me. Safe travels.”
Looking outside, I realized that I had 9 shown generosity to this old man, who had probably never
been offered food by a stranger. If I felt this good simply because I had unconsciously brightened someone’s day, I
wonder how wonderful it would feel to show strangers kindness with 10 .
1．A．stepped
B．wandered
C．returned
D．approached
2．A．desperate
B．nervous
C．confused
D．confident
3．A．broke down
B．put off
C．took off
D．slipped away
4．A．create
B．shape
C．discover
D．control
5．A．persuasive
B．absorbing
C．subjective
D．mysterious
6．A．rise
B．sink
C．twist
D．swing
7．A．waved
B．supported
C．cupped
D．balanced
8．A．hope
B．gratitude
C．pride
D．curiosity
9．A．consistently
B．purposely
C．accidentally
D．thoughtfully
10．A．intention
B．sympathy
C．inspiration
D．expectation
第二节 语法填空（共10 小题，每小题1.5 分,共15 分）
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。
A
To make matters 11 (bad), Hughie was in love. The girl he loved was Laura Merton, the daughter of a
retired Colonel who 12 (lose) his temper and his digestion in India, and never found either of them again.
Laura and Hughie were the most handsome couple in London, and had not a penny-piece between them. The
Colonel was very fond of Hughie, 13 he would not hear of any engagement.
B
阅读下面短文，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。请在答题卡指定区域作答。
When I was seven, my favourite blanket 14 (fly) out of the car window and was gone during a trip.
Heartbroken, we later stopped at a service station 15 a biker gang had pulled in. “Is that your blue Ford?”
A frightening man 16 a bushy beard asked. Mum nodded nervously. The man pulled my blanket from his
jacket pocket and handed it to her. He then returned to his motorcycle. I repaid him the only way I knew how: I ran
up to him and gave him my sandwich.
C
阅读下面短文，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。请在答题卡指定区域作答。
When I was sixteen, I was in the gallery appreciating a painting that my teacher 17 (show) us in
class before. Seeing the real work, I felt 18 (connect) to its maker though we didn’t know each other. In
the class, I had only noticed composition or symbols, but in the gallery, I 19 (astonish) by the jewel-like
surface and incredible details of real work. Seeing art firsthand can be a moving and 20 (meaning)
experience.
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
Summer of KidsPost 2022 continues with our readers sharing their summer vacation adventures. This week’s
edition features national parks and an old railroad tunnel (隧道).
Moubon Kurukumbi, 13, and Masoom Kurukumbi, 10, of Fairfax visited Washington
state. They hiked in three national parks: North Cascades, Mount Rainier and Olympic National
Park. While on Hurricane Ridge Mountain in Olympic National Park, Moubon and Masoom
were approached by several black-tailed deer.
Nathan Howard, 8, of Ashburn visited the Smoky Mountains National Park in North
Carolina and Tennessee. Nathan hiked, played in streams and saw two bears. He is a junior
ranger and wants to be a ranger to look after the Smoky Mountains National Park when he
grows up.
Bella Lamb, 13, Ari Lamb, 8, of Virginia Beach, and Violet Lamb, 9, of Centreville
visited the Claudius Crozet Blue Ridge Tunnel in Rockfish Gap, Virginia. The historic railroad
tunnel was built in the 1850s. They walked through the tunnel with flashlights while enjoying
the cooler temperatures.
We expect more of our readers to include us in their summer vacations, so take a page of KidsPost and share
the fun. We’ll feature a selection of readers’ photos in the print KidsPost and on kidspost.com this summer. In
September, three randomly selected participants will receive books and KidsPost presents. Here are the rules:
·Get a recent copy of the printed KidsPost or print out a page online (wapo.st/kidspost2022PDF). Take it on
your vacation.
·Get someone to take a photo of you — and brothers, sisters or other family members — holding KidsPost.
Make sure at least one person in the photo is between the ages of 5 and13.
·Have a parent fill out the entry form at wapo.st/summerofkidspost2022 and attach your photo. List the full
name, age and hometown of everyone in the photo and explain where you are and what’s going on.
·Families can submit only one photo, and it must have been taken after May 23, 2022. Entries are due by
September 1.
For more information, please visit kidspost@washpost.com.
21．From the passage we know that ________.
A．Bella and Ari hiked in three national parks
B．Violet saw black-tailed deer in Olympic National Park
C．Moubon and Masoom walked through an old railroad tunnel
D．Nathan spotted bears at the Smoky Mountains National Park
22．If kids want to get a chance of receiving books and presents, they need to ________.
A．fill out the paper entry form
B．take e-KidsPost on their vacation
C．submit the entries before May 23, 2022
D．send a photo of themselves holding KidsPost
23．Why does KidsPost hold the summer adventure sharing activity?
A．To fuel kids’ passion for photography.
B．To inspire a sense of adventure in kids.
C．To attract more kids’ attention to the newspaper.
D．To recommend tourist destinations for kids’ vacation.
B
New research challenges the widespread belief that artificial intelligence is triggering a sharp rise in global
greenhouse gas emissions. The study suggests that AI’s overall influence on worldwide pollution is small and could
even support environmental and economic progress.
Scientists from the University of Waterloo and the Georgia Institute of Technology analyzed U.S. economic
data alongside estimates of how frequently AI tools are used across different industries. Their goal was to understand
what might happen to the environment if AI adoption increases along its current path.
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, 83 percent of the nation’s economic activity relies
on petroleum, coal and natural gas. These fuels release greenhouse gases when burned. The researchers noted that
total energy use from AI in the United States matched the electricity consumption of Iceland, yet this amount
remained insignificant when viewed at national or global levels.
“It is important to note that the increase in energy use is not going to be uniform. It’s going to be felt more in
the places where electricity is produced to power the data centers,” said Dr. Juan Moreno-Cruz, a professor in the
Faculty of Environment at Waterloo and Canada Research Chair in Energy Transitions. “If you look at that energy
from the local perspective, that’s a big deal because some places could see double the amount of electricity output
and emissions. But at a larger scale, AI’s use of energy won’t be noticeable.”
The study did not explore economic outcomes within the specific communities that host data centers, but the
researchers identified several positive takeaways.
“For people who believe that the use of AI will be a major problem for the climate and think we should avoid
it, we’re offering a different perspective,” Moreno-Cruz said. “The effects on climate are not that significant, and we
can use AI to develop green technologies or to improve existing ones. Moving forward, we intend to apply the same
approach to additional countries in order to understand how AI adoption may influence environmental outcomes
across different regions of the world.”
24．Why did the scientists conduct this research?
A．To analyze AI’s industrial application frequency.
B．To promote environmental and economic progress.
C．To calculate economic data across different industries.
D．To explore AI’s environmental effects in its present trend.
25．What can we learn from paragraph 3?
A．US AI energy use is small on a global scale.
B．Iceland’s power consumption is mainly driven by AI.
C．Most US fossil fuels are used to power AI data centers.
D．83% of US fossil fuels are consumed for AI energy use.
26．What is Dr. Moreno-Cruz’s attitude towards AI’s effect on the climate?
A．Neutral.
B．Dismissive.
C．Objective.
D．Concerned.
27．What will the researchers do in their follow-up research?
A．Study data centers’ economic outcomes. B．Expand their research to more countries.
C．Measure AI’s exact influence in all regions.
D．Employ AI to develop and upgrade green tech.
C
In the United Arab Emirates (UAE), water is more valuable than oil. To support its citizens, the nation relies
on expensive campaigns of cloud seeding from aircraft, which spray particles( 喷洒微粒) into passing clouds to
make rainfall.
But according to Oliver Branch, a climate scientist, there may be another method to stir up a rainmaker: with
city-size solar farms that create their own weather. The heat from dark solar panels can cause updrafts that
sometimes lead to rainstorms, providing water for local people. “Maybe it’s not science fiction that we can produce
this effect,” says Branch, who led the work.
Few studies have examined how renewable energy might shift weather patterns. In 2020, Branch found that
incredibly large solar farms, taking up more than 1 million square kilometers in the Sahara desert, could boost local
rainfall. But the reward would come with a cost, the researchers found: By altering wind patterns, the solar farms
would push tropical rain bands north. That’s not good news for the Amazon areas.
To find more, researchers turned to a weather model that can account for land surface changes. They modeled
the solar farms as nearly black fields that absorbed 95%of the sunlight, surrounded by relatively reflective sand.
When the solar farms reached 15 square kilometers, they found, the increased heat they absorbed appreciably
increased the updrafts, or convection, that drive cloud formation.
Hacking convection wasn’t enough, however: damp air was also needed. When conditions were ripe, the
model also found, a 20-square-kilometer solar field would increase a storm’s total rainfall by nearly 600,000 cubic
meters. If such rainstorms occurred 10 times in one summer, they would provide enough water to support more than
30,000 people for a year.
Solar farms in China and elsewhere are nearly big enough, Branch says. If they were built in the right spots, it
wouldn’t take much to darken the panels and to plant dark crops between panel rows. Still they’re trying to improve
the realism of their solar panel simulations by cross-checking them with field measurements at existing solar farms.
The UAE “is committed to studying the potentially dynamic strategies, such as optimizing convection,” says
Alya Al, director of the UAE’s Research Program. For now, she adds, the UAE is deeply committed to its cloud
seeding program, carrying out some 300 missions each year.
28．In his study, Branch attempts to produce rainfall ________.
A．by way of updrafts formed on solar farms
B．by spraying particles into passing clouds
C．by means of relatively reflective sand
D．by planting dark crops
29．The model is designed to find out ________.
A．the ripe conditions for building a solar farm
B．the realistic size of a solar farm for rainfall increase
C．the annual amount of water consumption in the UAE
D．the heat absorption rate of the solar panels in the black fields
30．What can we learn about Branch’s method?
A．It is not supported by the director.
B．It needs great investment if applied.
C．It remains to be further tested in practice.D．It has promoted cloud seeding in the UAE.
D
My father loved lists. Over 25 years, he recorded 539 books he read and 322 episodes of Booknotes on C-
SPAN, which he watched every Sunday night. He also kept grocery lists for his mini-fridge — Pepsi, coffee, heavy
cream — and daily tasks. These notes filled small notebooks, always near his reading chair. He wrote them until
December 31, 2004, when cancer stopped him. After his death, I gathered the notebooks into a box. For years, I
couldn’t bear to open them.
Born in 1927 in Lowell, Massachusetts, my father was the son of a leather factory worker and grandson of an
Irish immigrant who cleaned horse manure from the streets. Despite his humble beginnings, he was brilliant. After a
summer in the leather factory, he graduated high school at 16 and went on to Boston College. He served in World
War II and later earned degrees in physics. Then he worked at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory, moved his family from
Lowell to Boston, and sent his kids to private colleges. It seemed he had left Lowell behind — but not so. Deep
down, he saw himself simply as a working-class Lowell kid who had just read a lot of books.
He didn’t travel much, and didn’t feel the need. When I asked if he regretted not seeing the world, he
defended himself: “I’ve sailed the Atlantic in stormy winds, climbed the Himalayas, and stared down wild animals.”
Then he added, “I read.” Books were his world. From them, he learned to survive landslides, shark attacks, and even
gorilla attacks. He had what he called “a rich inner life” — and it was true.
Shortly before his death, he opened a small purple notebook and began one last list. It described details from
1930s Lowell — things lost in time. Twenty years later, I found it. In his flowing handwriting, Dad reached back to
Lowell — a time long gone, now captured only in memory. Lost and only in memory — that was how I was
experiencing Dad now. Squinting my eyes, I saw not just the city he loved, but the quiet, extraordinary man I called
Dad.
31．Why are the details of the father’s lists mentioned in Paragraph 1?
A．To imply his fear of forgetting.
B．To show his love for literature and cuisine.
C．To reveal his reliance on control.
D．To reflect his ordered and thoughtful life.
32．What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 mean?
A．He stayed humble and rooted.
B．He struggled with his identity.
C．His success originated from his roots.
D．He felt torn about his background.
33．What does the father’s quote in Paragraph 3 mainly reveal?
A．His dream of global travel.
B．His pride in inner journeys.
C．His desire for real adventure.
D．His escape from physical world.
34．What is the main theme of the passage?
A．Pursuit and action.
B．Loss and regret.
C．Ambition and escape.
D．Memory and identity.
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。选项中有项为多余选项。
The work is piling up, pressure is mounting, and deadlines are approaching. How can we still get useful
results if we need to make quick judgments and fast decisions? 35 Here’s how we can upgrade our minds.
Firstly, challenge your key assumptions. Based on past experience, our mind constantly makes assumptions
about the world. However, what saves us time and energy can lead to wrong conclusions if they remain
unchallenged. Start by working in a team and questioning each other’s assumptions. 36
You should also consider alternative explanations. Humans seek explanations, and we prefer the one that
comes to mind first. 37 It pays to naturally look beyond the most obvious explanations. This is to avoid
confirmation bias; when we ignore evidence that goes against a prior belief. A master thinker treats their preferred
explanation just as an assumption.
38 They simply refer to the main factors influencing how things have been going or how they will
go. If we practice watching for driving factors when we have time to think, we’ll be able to identify them more
instinctively on occasions when we’re in a hurry. The master thinker prioritizes the factors that impact an issue the
most.
Finally, consider the overall context. The master thinker considers the circumstances and conditions of an
issue. 39 A few minutes to orient ourselves and reflect on the situation as a whole can once more save us
time down the road. Only then is it time to consider the details and incorporate them back into said picture.
A．Moreover, try to focus on key drivers.
B．Attempt to think about problems wisely.
C．However, that isn’t necessarily the correct one.
D．This habit involves looking at the big picture first.
E．True expert thinkers know the limitations of their minds.
F．This collaborative approach enables your thinking to be challenged.
G．Actually, the habits of master thinkers can help in reasoning and making decisions.
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。
Habit formation is the process by which behaviours become automatic. People develop countless habits as
they explore the world, whether they are aware of them or not. Understanding how habits take shape may be helpful
in changing bad habits.
Habits are built through learning and repetition. A person is thought to develop a habit in the course of
pursuing goals by beginning to associate certain cues(刺激) with behavioural responses that help meet the goal. Over
time, thoughts of the behaviour and ultimately the behaviour itself are likely to be triggered(触发) by these cues.
A “habit loop(环)” is a way of describing several related elements that produce habits. These elements are
called the cue, the routine, and the reward. For example, stress could serve as a cue that one responds to by eating,
which produces the reward
the reduction of stress. While a routine involves repeated behaviour, it’s not necessarily
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performed in response to a deep
rooted urge, as a habit is.
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Old habits can be difficult to shake, and healthy habits are often harder to develop. But through repetition, it’s
possible to form new habits. The amount of time needed to build a habit will depend on multiple factors, including
the individual and the intended behaviour. While you are able to pickup a new habit in a few weeks, it takes many
months to build a healthy habit. Take some time to think about what leads to bad habits and re
evaluate what you
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get out of them (or don’t). Consider and keep in mind why you want to make a change, including how the change
reflects your values.
40．How are habits built?
41．In what way is a routine different from a habit?
42．Please decide which part is false in the following statement, then underline it and explain why.
Picking up a new habit takes a few week, while building a healthy habit takes a shorter time.
43．What benefit(s) have you got from one of your good habits?(In about 40 words)
第二节: （20 分)
44．根据央广网报道，我国存在八成青少年运动不足的问题。为响应“阳光体育”的号召，你校学生会英
文专栏正在招募“学生运动推广大使”，申请者需提交一份课间微运动方案。请你以李津的名义写一封英
文申请信，内容须包括：
(1)陈述你的申请动机；
(2)简述你的课间微运动方案及其优势；
(3)表达你的意愿和决心。
注意：
(1)词数100 左右；
(2)可适当增加细节，使行文连贯。
参考词汇：Sunshine Sports 阳光体育；Student Sports Promotion Ambassador 学生运动推广大使；micro-
exercise between classes 课间微运动
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