2020年枣庄市第四十二中学高三英语月考试卷及答案解析

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2020年枣庄市第四十二中学高三英语月考试卷及答案解析

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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

When I was seven my father gave me a Timex, my first watch. I loved it, wore it for years, and haven’t had another

one since it stopped ticking a decade ago. Why? Because I don’t need one. I have a mobile phone and I’m always

near someone with an iPod or something like that. All these devices (装置) tell the time — which is why, if you

look around, you’ll see lots of empty wrists; sales of watches to young adults have been going down since 2007.

This is ridiculous. Expensive cars go faster than cheap cars. Expensive clothes hang better than cheap clothes. But

these days all watches tell the time as well as all other watches. Expensive watches come with extra functions —

but who needs them? How often do you dive to 300 metres into the sea or need to find your direction in the area

around the South Pole? So why pay that much of five years’ school fees for watches that allow you to do these

things?

If justice were done, the Swiss watch industry should have closed down when the Japanese discovered how to

make accurate watches for a five-pound note. Instead the Swiss reinvented the watch, with the aid of millions of

pounds’ worth of advertising, as a message about the man wearing it. Rolexes are for those who spend their

weekends climbing icy mountains; a Patek Philippe is for one from a rich or noble family; a Breitling suggests you

like to pilot planesacross the world.

Watches are now classified as “investments” (投资). A 1994 Philippe recently sold for nearly £ 350,000, while

1960s Rolexes have gone from £ 15,000 to £ 30,000 plus in a year. But a watch is not an investment. It’s a toy for

self-satisfaction, a matter of fashion. Prices may keep going up — they’ve been rising for 15 years. But when of

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