2021年贵阳市第二实验中学高三英语第四次联考试题及答案

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2021年贵阳市第二实验中学高三英语第四次联考试题及答案

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A

The last thing Caitlin Hipp would have expected as she prepared to turn 28 years old was to be living at

homewith her parents. But through working as a part-time skating instructor and restaurant server, she isn't able

to earn enough to live anywhere other than home.

To some degree, multigenerational households have always been a part of American life. However, the

number of young adults who have been moving back in with their parents — or never leaving home in the first

place — has been growing steadily.

UBS Financial Services released a report that even suggests one reason for the growing number of young

adultsstill living at home could be that their family doesn't want them to leave.

The report shows that 74 percent of millennials (千禧一代)get some kind of financial support from their

parents after college. It finds that millennials have redefined the ties that connect parents and children.

Millennials see their parents as peers,friends and instructors. Nearly three quarters talked with their parents more

than once a week during college. In return, their parents happily provide financial support well into adulthood,

helping fund everything for them.

Stuart Hoffman, chief economist for the PNC Financial Services Group in theUS, said the number of young

adults striking out on their own fell during the Great Recession. Although job growth for millennials since 2014

has improved, that doesn't necessarily mean that millennials are starting to fly the nest. He said, “They may like

living at home and being able to save money.

“ There's no doubt it has held back household formation and purchases of things people spend money on

related to household formation and perhaps related to child-raising," Hoffman explained. "But they are probably

traveling more and eating out more if they don't have a house expense or marriage. I don't know if it represents a

change in moral values. But it's much more common for adult children to live in their parents’ homes because it's

becoming part of the culture.

1. What can we learn from the UBS Financial Services' report?

A. Millennials are on good terms with their parents.

B. Millennials are financially independent after college.

C. Parents are unwilling to give their young adults allowance.

D. Parents want their kids to stay with them forever.

2. What does Hoffman think of young adults' living at home?

A. It increases the consumption of household products.

B. It may continue despite job growth.

C. It is a sign of shift in moral values.

D. It is new in American culture.

3. What is the author's purpose of writing this passage?

A. To introduce millennials' living habits.

B. To stress the importance of financial independence.

C. To explain why American young adults still live at home.

D. To inform people of a social trend in theUS.

B

It’s a big change from homeless teen to Yale (耶鲁)medical school student, butperseverancepaid off for

Chelesa Fearce of Clayton County, Georgia.

Fearce was a fourth grader when her mom was diagnosed (诊断) with Lymphoma (淋巴瘤).That began a hard

time for the family. They had to move in and out of shelters,hotels and even the family car.

“I know I have been made stronger. I was homeless. My family slept on the floor and we were lucky if we got

more than one full meal a day. Getting a shower, food and clean clothes was an everyday struggle,” Fearce said in

a speech she gave at her high school graduation ceremony. Fearce overcame her day-to-day struggles by focusing

on a better day. “I just told myself to keep working, because the future will not be like this anymore. And that

helped me get through,” she told WSBTV.

Fearce was determined to be a good role model for her younger sister. She found inspiration in her late

grandmother, struggling with deadly diseases, who gave Fearce emotional support. In her junior and senior year,

Fearce took both high school and college courses, missing out on the free meals she depended on so she could get

to her college classes. Despite having to use her cellphone to study after the shelter lights were turned off at night,

she not only graduated as valedictorian (毕业生代表) of her 2013 class with a 4.5 grade average, but was also

given a ride scholarship—including a meal plan to Spelman College in Atlanta.

After graduation, she worked full time for two years at the National Institutes for Health

inBethesda,Maryland,doing research on drugs. Last fall, she entered Yale and set a course to earn both a PhD and

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