上海南汇中学2026-2027学年第一学期期中考试高二英语试题

上海南汇中学2026学年第一学期期中考试

高二英语

满分：115分　　完成时间：105分钟

第 I 卷

I. Grammar and Vocabulary (20%)

Section A (10%)

Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Why Should I Consider Using Stealth Marketing for My Business?

Why would a brand want to use stealth marketing rather than traditional marketing or other strategies? Well, there are many benefits to using it and it’s widely used around the world. If (1)________(do) properly, it gives brands the opportunity to go global with their reach.

Stealth marketing is typically used as an awareness tool, (2)________(mean) that brands that launch stealth marketing campaigns are usually focusing on awareness KPIs rather than conversion. Companies (3)________ place their products in a movie or TV show are not looking for you to directly recognize the products and then go out to the store and buy them.

Rather, they are indirectly showing you its uses, benefits, etc. For example, a successful businessman in a movie is closing a deal in his office (4)________ he is using an HP laptop. You may not pay too much attention but next time you are shopping for a laptop you will have much (5)________(high) brand recognition with HP because you have already seen the laptop. If it was very well done then you (6)________ go so far as to actually purchase the laptop. Similarly, a popular example of product placement (7)________(be) the use of luxury cars in movies.

Next time you watch your favorite action-packed movie, pay attention to (8)________ car the hero or main character is using.

Notice them getting out of a luxury BMW or Audi while everything is blowing up behind them? That’s product placement for you; the brand specifically wants you (9)________(feel) the power and luxury of the moment in the movie and also their car. Those impressive feelings (10)________(expect) to be kept in mind by viewers the next time they consider purchasing a new car.

Section B (10%)

Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

 

People tend to have a similar concept of happiness and can easily recognize expressions of happiness in others, no matter what cultural backgrounds they come from. As a result, happiness (11)________ as a basic emotion. Such emotions cannot be broken down further into simpler emotional states, which can form complex emotions when (12)________ with other basic feelings. In fact, happiness is sometimes the only positive basic emotion identified by psychologists. Thus, happiness is an important (13)________ for researchers who study human emotions and cross-cultural psychological differences.

An entire field of research has developed around the more inclusive concept of subjective well-being, which is (14)________ by a broad collection of happiness-related phenomena rather than a specific momentary emotion. Not surprisingly, people who are happy in this way tend to experience frequent positive emotions and infrequent negative emotions. This broader form of happiness is not (15)________ emotional; however, it also has a cognitive component. When happy people are asked to think back on the conditions and events in their lives, they tend to (16)________ these conditions and events positively. Thus, happy people report being satisfied with their lives and the various aspects in their lives.

Interestingly, these (17)________ components of happiness do not always co-occur within the same person. It is possible that someone could experience a great deal of (18)________ emotions yet still acknowledge that the conditions of his or her life are good ones. For example, someone who works with the poor or the sick may experience frequent bad emotions but may also consider life (19)________ because the work is worthwhile. Similarly, someone who usually (20)________ himself in hedonic(享乐主义的) pleasures may experience frequent momentary positive emotions, but he may also feel that life is empty and meaningless. Subjective well-being researchers are interested in the various factors that influence these distinct components.

II. Reading Comprehension (45%)

Section A (15%)

Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.

We all know someone like it. You probably work with or are even related to one. And with Christmas approaching, the season of office parties and family gatherings, you’re increasingly likely to have to (21)________ with one and rediscover just how annoying they

are. We’re talking about the “know-it-all”. Individuals who will enthusiastically (22)________ you about any topic or area, despite clearly having little to no expert knowledge in what they’re talking about. And often, even though (23)________ do.

Why would anyone assume (24)________ knowledge to everyone else, about every possible subject matter? One is the phenomenon of “naive realism”, which describes how people instinctively assume that their (25)________ of the world reflects objective reality. In reality, everything we see and “know” about the world passes through our brain’s shortcuts, biases(偏见), emotional memories, and other mental processes. What we believe is reality in our heads is often noticeably different from what is reality, but we don’t recognize this happening. (26)________, we regularly encounter people who see the world from another perspective. But naive realism means we assume that those who understand the world differently are (27)________. For a seemingly large number of people, this results in an irresistible urge to “correct” others. It may be 100 per cent well intended, but that doesn’t make it any less (28)________. However, this can’t be the (29)________ story. Many people experience naive realism, yet never do or say anything about it. True know-it-alls don’t actually wait for you to make a mistake before (30)________ to you. This suggests something beyond naive realism that drives know-it-all behavior.

Another cognitive(认知的) bias at work, proposed in a recent study by Gehlbach, Robinson, and Fletcher, is “the illusion of information adequacy”. Put simply, this describes how though many people (31)________ sufficient information to make accurate judgments about something, they’ll assume the opposite. It’s logically very hard to (32)________ what we don’t know.

Then there’s the Dunning-Kruger effect: the cognitive bias where people with limited competence in a certain area tend to (33)________ their abilities. Their lack of smart thinking means they struggle to acknowledge when someone else knows more than them, meaning they dare to argue with those who are better informed. And because people often respond more to (34)________ than accuracy, they often get away with it. If this happens often enough, across enough subjects, they could convince themselves that they’re (35)________ on pretty much everything, even though the opposite is true.

21. A. cooperate B. interact

C. compete D. identify

22. A. mislead B. question

C. consult D. lecture

23. A. you B. some

C. many D. they

24. A. realistic B. practical

C. superior D. objective