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2016年全国高考英语优化习题集 (15) (建议用时：30分钟)Ⅰ.阅读理解(2015·郑州质量检测三)You may have heard of the American Dream times，the dream has referred to home ownership，a good job，retirement security or each generation doing better than the last. Yet today，this concept seems to have greatly changed.As Time magazine pointed out，quite different from the older generation，many Millennials (the generation born after 1980) redefine (重新定义) the American Dream as “day-to-day control of your life”．They “prize job mobilityme ownership，once the cornerstone of the American Dream，is becoming a smaller priority for this generation.Meanwhile，nearly 40% of them choose travel as part of their dream.And entrepreneurship (创业) is a rising favorite of Millennials consider self-employment as part of their dream. So what has led to this huge change? Many point fingers at the poor economy.“Modern young Americans seem bound to face a world stamped by ever narrowing opportunity and social stagnation(停滞)”noted The Daily Beast. “The rate of Millennials out of school and out of work is unusually high at 15%.Many college graduates have taken jobs that don’t require a degree，”Time reported. The magazine worries that these difficulties may lead to a lost generation who are “unable to ever truly find their feet on the corporation’s ladder”．to feel attainable，and many Millennials are feeling they can only attain a day-to-day lifestyle that suits them.” 1．The underlined word “cornerstone” in Paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to “________”．is D．purposeg economy and unemployment. 3．Dan Kadlec thinks Millennials’ new definition of the American Dream is ________．finition of American Dream B．Meaning of American Dream C．Value of Achieving American Dream D．History of Changing American Dream Ⅱ.完形填空(2015·昆明质量检测二)The long line of rush hour traffic wounded its way down the rain-slick(湿滑的) street as I glanced nervously at my watch.5：30! Nothing had gone right all day.This traffic jam seemed the perfect ending to a(n)__1__ day.__2__ there