外研版必修1《unit2exploringenglishperiod2》2020年同步练习卷(2)(有答案解析).docx

外研版（ 2019）必修 1《Unit 2 Exploring English Period 2 》2020年同步练习卷（ 2） 一、阅读理解（本大题共 3 小题，共 6.0分） A As businesses and governments have struggled to understand the so-called millennials-born between roughly 1980 and 2000-one frequent conclusion has been that they have a unique love of cities ． A deep-seated preference for night life and subways ， the thinking goes ， has driven the revitalization of urban cores across the U． S． over the last decade-plus． But theres mounting evidence that millennials love of cities was a passing fling （放纵） ． Millennials dont love cities any more than previous generations ． The latest argument comes from Dowell Myers ， an urban planning professor at USC ． As they age， says Myers , mille nni als prese nee in cities , will be evaporati ng （蒸发） through our fin gers , if we dont make some plans now． Thats because millennials preference for cities will fade as they start families and become more established in their careers． Its about more than aging， though． Demographer William Frey has been arguing for years that millennials have become ‘stuck in cities by the 2008 downturn and the following slow recovery ， with poor job prospects and declining wages making it harder for them to afford to buy homes in suburbia ． Myers， too， says observers have confused young peoples presence in cities with a preference for cities．Survey data shows that more millennials would like to be living in the suburbs than actually are．But the normal career and family cycles moving young people from cities into suburban houses have become， in Myers words ， a plugged-up drain ． But unemployment has finally returned to healthy lows （ though participation rates and wages are still largely stagnant）， which Myers says should finally increase mobility for millennials ． Other trends among millennials， supposedly matters of lifestyle preference， have already turned out to have been driven mostly by economics．What was once deemed their broad preference for public transit may have a