广东省韶关市翁源中学2025-2026学年高三上学期期中考试英语试题（含答案）

翁源中学2026届高三年级期中考试 英 语 注意事项： 1. 答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、班级、准考证号码等信息填写在答题卡上。 2. 作答时，务必将答案写在答题卡上，写在本试卷及草稿纸上无效。 3. 考试结束后，将答题卡交回。 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 Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern, by Jing Tsu Tsu, a professor of East Asian languages and literature at Yale University, charts the struggle to adapt Chinese characters to a new world．Her rigorous and engaging history suggests that the language revolution reveals the country's past, present and future． Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy, by Eric Schwartzel To tell the dual stories of how Hollywood humbled itself in pursuit of the Chinese market, and how Beijing's roaring movie industry took off, Schwartzel has conducted extraordinary reporting and a lot of legwork, with fascinating results． Joan Is Okay, by Weike Wang Joan is a 36-year-old attending physician in an ICU on New York's Upper West Side, who just wants people to leave her alone so she can work．But the pressure from her family, HR and her neighbor leaves her with a rage that Wang leaves always bubbling beneath the surface． Seven Games: A Human History, by Oliver Roeder Roeder, a student of games and game theory, is deeply aware of the tension between what games are and what people project onto them．In his “group biography” of seven enduring and beloved games, Roeder investigates not just the history of how we play them, but why we play them． The Postmistress of Paris, by Meg Waite Clayton The heroine of this historical novel was inspired by a real-life Chicago heiress who used her money and influence to smuggle(私运) thousands of refugees to safety during the Second World War, showing that loyalty and love exist even under tragic circumstances． 21．Which of the following is centered on a character's personal struggles in modern life A．Kingdom of Characters． B．Joan Is Okay． C．Seven Games: A Human History． D．The Postmistress of Paris． 22．What do Kingdom of Characters and Seven Games have in common A．Both are focused on events during World War Ⅱ． B．Both authors are professors at major universities． C．Both explore the deeper history of their subjects． D．Both are primarily biographical accounts of individuals． 23．Where will you most likely find this text A．In a medical journal． B．In an academic textbook． C．In a newspaper's book column． D．In a movie magazine's review section． B Farmers have been placing magnets(磁铁) inside cows for years—a carefully adopted practice that may seem strange at first．While we aim to focus on facts rather than unproven ideas, this unique phenomenon makes us wonder: why exactly is this done Known as cow magnets, the devices are placed inside cattle to deal with “hardware disease”．Hardware disease occ ... ...