河南省鹤壁市高级中学2017届高三英语上学期第二次段考试题.docVIP

鹤壁高中高三年级上学期第二次段考英语试卷 命题人: 考试时间:2016.10.20 第一部分 阅读理解(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，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A China has announced it’s abolishing its one-child policy. What difference has it made, statistically speaking? 400 million births prevented The one-child policy, officially in place since 1979, has prevented 400 million births. Parents have faced fines and other punishments for having more children. The majority of the decrease in China’s fertility rate(生育率) happened in the 1970s. It dropped from 5.8 children per woman in 1970 to 2.7 in 1978. Despite the one-child policy the rate had only fallen?to?1.7?by?2013.? 21:28-baby?deaths?rate? Since?the?one-child?policy?was?introduced,?baby?girls?have?become?more?likely?to?die?than?boys.? In the 1970s, according to the United Nations, 60 males per 1, 000 live births died under the age of one. For girls the figure was 53. In the 1980s, after the one-child policy became official, the rate for both was 36. By the 1990s, 26 males per 1,000 live births died before the age of one - and 33 girls. The 2000s saw 21 boys per 1,000 live births dying and 28 girls. 1.16?boys?born?for?every?girl? Sexually selective abortions have been considered as a major cause of Chinas unusual imbalance. Gietel-Basten, associate professor in social policy at Oxford University, says the births of many girls are not registered if parents have broken the rule by having two children, adding officials often turn a blind eye. Its estimated there are now 33 million more men than women in China. 4:?2:?1?families? With the ageing of Chinas population and the continuation of the one-child policy, a “4: 2 :1” home is the description given to households in which there are four grandparent, cared for by two working age parents, who themselves have one child. By 2050, it’s predicted that a quarter of Chinas population will be 65 or older. The predicted decline in the number of people of wor