内蒙古鄂尔多斯市第一中学2021-2022学年高二上学期第一次月考英语试题

英语试题 第1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） A Highlights of the Current Affairs Loneliness economy China’s younger generations are driving up the value of the country’s industry. In recent years, businesses built around loneliness have appeared and boomed in China, presenting single people with the services they need. As furry animals occupy the personal lives of more and more people, the industrial chain established around pets is starting a market that might soon be worth hundreds of billions of yuan. Following the catering industry, shopping and housekeeping services which turned to the Internet for modern solutions, the pet industry is also offering creative services, such as a call-out vet (兽医) service. Alipay adds beauty filters (美颜) to face-scan The Chinese mobile payment application, Alipay launched a new update that included “beauty filter” into its face-scan payment system. The “beauty filters”, which beautify users when they make payments via the application, have been well received by the market. A survey run by news portal Sina Technology showed that more than 60% of respondents think they look uglier through the face-scan payments method than on a regular camera. The number of women users, in particular, increased by 123 percent after this technique appeared. Future pocket money Research has found that 84% of British parents currently give notes and coins to their children. But banks predict that by 2028 only one in ten businesses will be with cash. Children may not understand the value of cash because they never see it. Parents face a dilemma —— finding a new way to offer pocket money, or maybe not bothering to pay it at all. But whatever method a parent chooses to adopt, they need to teach their kids that money doesn’t grow on trees! 1. What’s the purpose of the passage? A. To introduce the latest news. B. To attract attention to Alipay. C. To predict the disappearance of cash. D. To promote the economic