2021届江苏启东中学高三英语期末试题及参考答案

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2021届江苏启东中学高三英语期末试题及参考答案

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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

The connection between people and plants has long been the subject of scientific research. Recent studies

have found positive effects. A study conductedin Youngstown，Ohio，for example, discovered that greener areas of

the city experienced less crime. In another，employees were shown to be 15% more productive when their

workplaces were decorated with houseplants.

The engineers at the Massachusetts Instituteof Technology(MIT)have taken it a step further changing the

actual composition of plants in order to get them to perform diverse，even unusual functions. These include plants

that have sensors printed onto their leaves to show when they’re short of water and a plant that can detect

harmful chemicals in groundwater.＂We’re thinking about how we can engineer plants to replace functions of the

things that we use every day,＂explained Michael Strano, a professor of chemical engineering at MIT.

One of his latest projects has been to make plants glow(发光)in experiments using some common vegetables.

Strano’s team found that they could create a faint light for three-and-a-half hours. The light，about

one-thousandth of the amount needed to read by，is just a start. The technology, Strano said, could one day be

used to light the rooms or even to turn trees into self-powered street lamps.

In the future，the team hopes to develop a version of the technology that can be sprayed onto plant leaves in

a one-off treatment that would last the plant’s lifetime. The engineers are also trying to develop an on and off＂

switch＂where the glow would fade when exposed to daylight.

Lighting accounts for about 7% of the total electricity consumed in the US. Since lighting is often far removed

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