2016-2017學(xué)年上海中學(xué)高二（上）開學(xué)英語試卷

Direction： Beneath each of the following sentences there are four choices marked A， B， C and D. Choose the other answer that best completes the sentence.

• 1．Excuse me，would you please tell me         ．（　　）

  A．when the sports meet is taken place

  B．when is the sports meet going to be held

  C．when is the sports meet to begin

  D．when the sports meet is to take place
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• 2．Time flies like an arrow，and time lost        ．（　?。?/h2>

  A．never has returned	B．never returned
  C．never returns	D．is never returning
  組卷：38引用：2難度：0.5

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• 3．If the factory          the river，there will be no fish in it soon．（　?。?/h2>

  A．left polluting	B．leaving polluting
  C．is left polluting	D．leaves to pollute
  組卷：6引用：1難度：0.7

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• 4．What really flatters a man is          you think him worth flattering．（　?。?/h2>

  A．that

  B．whether

  C．what

  D．how
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• 5．Time tries friends          fire tries gold．（　?。?/h2>

  A．when

  B．a(chǎn)s

  C．like

  D．what
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• 6．I have pleasure in introducing to you the man without          generosity your club would cease to exist．（　?。?/h2>

  A．whose

  B．that

  C．which

  D．this
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• 7．Learning is a natural pleasure，inborn and instinctive，        of the essential pleasures of the human race．（　　）

  A．which

  B．one

  C．each

  D．a(chǎn)ny
  組卷：25引用：1難度：0.5

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• 8．In the past decade，geologists have come closer than ever to ________ the age of the earth．（　?。?/h2>

  A．calculate	B．calculating
  C．be calculating	D．have calculated
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IV. Translation

• 25．很明顯，即便政府實(shí)施二孩政策，一些夫婦還是會(huì)由于經(jīng)濟(jì)壓力不選擇生第二胎．（It）
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V. Fill in the blanks

• 26．Eating popcorn in the cinema may be irritating not just for fellow movie goers，but for advertisers：a group of researchers from Cologne University has concluded that chewing makes us immune to film advertising．
  The reason why ads manage to imprint（刻上記號(hào)） brand names on our brains is （85）

  our lips and the tongue automatically simulate the pronunciation of a new name when we first hear it． （86）

  we re-encounter the name，our mouth subconsciously practises its pronunciation．
  However，according to the study （87）

  （publish） in the Journal of Consumer Psychology，this "inner speech" can be disturbed by chewing， （88）

  （render） the repetition effect redundant．
  （89）

  their experiment，the researchers invited a group of 96 people to a cinema to watch a movie preceded by a series of adverts．Half of the participants （90）

  （give） free popcorn throughout the session，the other half only received a small sugar cube （91）

  immediately dissolved in their mouths．
  A test at the end of the screening showed that the adverts had left no effect on those viewers who had chewed their way through popcorn throughout，while the other participants showed positive psychological responses to the products they （92）

  （encounter） in the ads．
  "The mundane activity of eating popcorn made participants immune to the pervasive effects of advertising，" said Sascha Topolinski，one of the researchers．
  He goes as far as implying that his research （93）

  spell the end of the traditional popcorn machine in cinema foyers． "This finding suggests that selling candy in cinemas actually undermines advertising effects，which contradicts present marketing strategies．In the future，when promoting a novel brand，advertising clients might consider trying to prevent candy （94）

  （sell） before the main movie．"
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