2020-2021学年北京101中学高三英语期中试题及参考答案

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2020-2021学年北京101中学高三英语期中试题及参考答案

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第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

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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

Dolores Huerta has worked hard most of her life to help other people. She has helped change things so that

others can have a better life.

Dolores grew up in California. She was a good student and liked school. After she finished high school, she

went to college and studied to be a teacher. After college, she became a teacher. Dolores noticed that many of her

students were not getting enough food to eat. Some of them wore very old clothes. Dolores wondered how she

could help them.

Dolores liked teaching but she decided to quit her job so that she could spend more time helping her

students and their families. One thing she wanted to do was to get more pay for their parents, farm workers. Thus

they could buy their children what they needed.

Dolores knew that many farm workers moved often from one place to another to help pick different kinds of

fruits and vegetables, like grapes and tomatoes. She began talking and writing about these workers. Even people

who lived far from California read what Dolores wrote. Getting higher pay for the farm workers was not easy.

Dolores worked hard to make sure that farm workers got fair pay for their work. She knew that nothing would

change unless new laws were made to help the workers. Through all her hard work, new laws were passed that

gave farm workers fair pay.

Dolores Huerta has worked for more than 30 years in many different ways to make life better for working

people. She has shown how much one person can change things.

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