2020年临川一中高三英语模拟试卷及答案解析
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2020年临川一中高三英语模拟试卷及答案解析
第一部分 阅读（共两节，满分40分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项
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
A Virginia teen is doing his part to make sure frontline health care workers are getting the meals they need to
help them take care of themselves and others.
Arul Nigam, 17, of Tyson's Corner, Va. , has had to make several adjustments since his school year ended
abruptly in mid-March due to the coronavirus pandemic(新冠疫情).“We didn'thave any classes for like over a
month and then after that there were a lot of technical difficulties. So I started to have a lot more free time,” he
tells Yahoo Life. “It was really saddening, but it was also something that really surprised me, that our health care
workers are facing something like that,” Nigam says. “So I wanted to see what I could do to help them because
obviously, they're sacrificing so much and giving so much for all of us. ”
In late March, the teen started fundraising efforts with the help of friends and family to help these health
care workers receive much-needed meals. He also began doing research about what hospitals had the most
amount of coronavirus cases, so he could prioritize those places first. He was also arranging for the orders to be
fulfilled at local family-owned restaurants impacted by shutdown orders. So far, Nigam has delivered over 1,000
meals to 22 hospitals in 13 states, including New York, Massachusetts and Maryland.
Nigam's efforts have not only helped health care workers, but restaurants as well. With quarantine
restrictionstaking a toll onthe food industry, places like Best Coast Burrito in Oakland, Calif. , have lost business
over the last few weeks. Best Coast's owner,Alvin Shen, tells Yahoo Life that being able to partner with Arul and
others in efforts to feed those on the frontline has been a big help.
