2020届重庆一中高三英语模拟试卷及答案解析
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2020届重庆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
About a billion birds die from flying into buildings each year inNorth America. Suspicions havebeen that birds
may regard the open areas behind glass as safe passageways. Or they may mistake the reflected trees for the real
thing.
Researchers would like to reduce collisions, which requires a solid understanding about what makes a bird
more or less likely to die by crashing into a building in the first place.
“There was ly little known at a broad scale. Previous studies were at one small study site.'' Jared Elmore, a
graduate student in natural resource ecology and management atOklahomaStateUniversity. So he and his
colleagues used a previously created data set of building collisions for birds at 40 sites
throughoutMexico,Canadaand theU.S.
The first finding was obvious: bigger buildings with more glass kill more birds. But the details were more
remarkable. "We found that life history predicted collisions. Migrants(候鸟), insect-eaters and
woodland-inhabiting species collided more than their counterparts(同类).”
Most migratory species travel at night, when lights near buildings can distract or disorient(使迷失方向)them.
And Elmore thinks that insect-eating birds might be attracted to buildings because their insect prey(猎物)is
attracted to the lights. He suspects that woodland species get tooled by the reflections of trees and bushes in the
windows. The results are in the journal Conservation Biology.
By understanding which birds are more likely to collide with buildings, researchers can perhaps determine the
