1 . The word “adulting” started as a kind of joke—whenever a millennial (千禧一代) would do something as an adult does, this was an act of “adulting”. However, now, millennials clearly need training in being an adult.
Rachel Flehinger has founded an Adulting School, which includes online classes on simple sewing (缝纫), problems solving and cooking. The cause for such classes is that many millennials haven’t left childhood homes—in America 34 percent of adults aged 18 to 34 still lived with their parents in 2015, up from 26 percent 10 years before. There’s a good deal of truth to this. If you’re living at home, with Mom and Dad doing their best to spoil (溺爱) you, you’re less likely to know how to wash clothes, cook or make the bed. Dependency leads to enervation. Over time, you are unable to adult.
But living at home doesn’t necessarily bring dependency. Back in 1940, 30 percent of 25-to-29-year-olds lived at home with parents or grandparents. But they were adulting. Parents expected their kids to do housework, and to prepare for life. Then, what’s the real problem now?
Instead of blaming (责备) living at home, we have to blame our style of parenting. The truth is that we’ve simply become lazier as parents. We’re more likely to let our kids lie on a sofa than tell them to get a job. We don’t push our kids to build families of their own, because life cost has increased. Then the question is how we can encourage young people to “adult” in such a situation.
1. What is the purpose of showing the data (数据) in paragraph 2?| A．To show that millennials liked to live with their parents. |
| B．To show that the Adulting School became popular in 2015. |
| C．To show that more adults still depended on their parents. |
| D．To show that the online courses were necessary to learn. |
| A．Emergency | B．Argument | C．Tension | D．Weakness |
| A．Living at home certainly leads to dependency. |
| B．Parents are too lazy to do housework. |
| C．We often tell kids to get a job. |
| D．Kids are not pushed to start their own families. |
| A．What the life of the millennials is like. |
| B．Why millennials need adulting training. |
| C．How parents encourage millennials to “adult”. |
| D．How parents educated kids in the past. |
2 . In 2005, Winston Duncan was traveling with his mother in Southern Africa when he saw an old lady and young boy walking down a road together. He thought of his own grandmother and wondered how he could help the old lady and others in Africa who have to walk a long way.
Duncan, who lived in Washington State was 10 at the time, and his solution was to give them bikes. With his mom, he started Wheels to Africa, an organization that for the past 14 years has taken bicycles donated from residents of the. Washington area and shipped them across the world to people in need.
Most of the 8000 bikes they have collected have gone to countries in Africa, helping cut down hours of walking for students and other postmen. But last week, Duncan, travelled with a handful of volunteers and 400 bikes to a destination much closer to his home yet still in need: Puerto Rico. More than a year after it was destroyed by Hurricane Maria, the island suffers from transportation problems.
"It was a little chaotic (混乱的) — as soon as they got their bikes, they were just having fun riding around the parking lot," said Austin Higgins, a New Jersey resident who recently joined Wheels to Africa as its photographer and videographer. "Some people who received bicycles were almost speechless, and some of them cried, because it was something they had requested for Christmas from Santa Claus," he said.
The donated bikes included some high-end racing models, which went to teenagers interested in pursuing serious cycling.
Duncan recently graduated from Bard College and is in Arlington working at a political consulting firm. He now encourages kids in the Washington area to get involved with the organization, and some have joined him on trips to Africa and on this trip to Puerto Rico.
"I wanted to try to get people to think about giving back,” he said.
1. Why did Winston Duncan start Wheels to Africa?| A．He hoped to make his grandmother feel happy. |
| B．He was fond of collecting different types of bikes. |
| C．He wanted to help the poor people to live better. |
| D．He was greatly supported by his mother to do so. |
| A．It has been managed for fourteen years. |
| B．It has delivered about 400 bikes to Africa. |
| C．It has many young kids as its members now. |
| D．It collects bicycles from all the areas in the U. S. |
| A．The delivery usually meets with some trouble. |
| B．The people who got bikes were excited and grateful. |
| C．It was very difficult for Duncan to collect enough bikes. |
| D．People in Africa required him to dress up as Santa Claus. |
| A．Wheels to Africa. | B．Trip to Puerto Rico. |
| C．Duncan, a Generous Person. | D．Hurricane in Puerto Rico. |
