考研英语一(阅读)模拟试卷857
阅读(常规阅读理解)
Families have been stretched into strange shapes these past few months. Multigenera-tional living was on the rise in many countries, such as the US and UK.
Now, a landmark ruling by Italy\’s Supreme Court has exposed the extraordinary extent to which some Italians have been clinging on to their parents, into their thirties and forties. The case concerned a 35-year-old man who has spent the past five years suing his parents for money to supplement his job as a part-time musician. Lower courts had forced his parents to pay maintenance, and backed his claim that he could not be expected to take work beneath his talents.
Where does this sense of entitlement come from? In the days when every generation did better than the one before, there might have been an argument that the young should have the luxury of finding themselves. But to make this a right to parental support is absurd. The coddling of the group dubbed \\
1.The case of a 35-year-old man is mentioned to illustrate(A)
A. adult children’s dependence on parents.
B. parents’ indulgence to their children.
C. the severity of family conflicts.
D. the importance of earning a living.
解析:
2.The author feels it absurd for the young to(B)
A. fail to realize self-value in their life.
B. take parents’ backing for granted.
C. ask parents to buy luxuries for them.
D. take work requiring no special talents.
解析:
3.The word \\(B)
A. emphasize.
B. stop.
C. accelerate.
D. track.
解析:
4.Yong people are reluctant to fly the nest mainly due to their(A)
A. inability to be financially independent.
B. sense of guilt for leaving their parents.
C. lack of opportunities to lead a life alone.
D. desire to extend the adolescence period.
解析:
5.It can be learned from Paragraph 5 that(D)
A. the elders feel burdensome for financing their kids.
B. the main burden of caring for seniors falls on the state.
C. Italy has the largest aging population in Europe.
D. families have done part of the government’s work.
解析:
From cybersecurity to e-mail completion and translation apps, the impacts of AI are in-creasingly being felt in our everyday lived experience. The way it has crept into our lives in such diverse ways and its proficiency in low-level knowledge shows that AI is here to stay. But AI is a tool—not a cure-all to modern problems, and blindly adapting it may bring notable flaws and consequences.
Every AI incorporates the values of the people that built it. Artificial intelligence \\
6.Artificial intelligence \\(C)
A. there are significant flaws in data collection.
B. it is necessary to categorize different tasks.
C. there are subjective factors embodi
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