黑龙江省八校2021-2022学年高三上学期期中联合考试英语试卷

2021—2022 学年度上学期八校期中联合考试 高三英语试题 （答题时间：100 分钟，满分 120 分） 本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分 第Ⅰ卷（选择题 共 70 分） 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 A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 A According to the revised (修改) law on population and family planning, China has announced it’s legitimizing（使合法）the third-child policy，which means the abolition of its decades-long one-child policy since last century. What difference has it made, statistically speaking? 0.4 billion fertility 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（生育）rate 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 death 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 China's unusual sexual imbalance. Gietel-Basten, associate professor in social policy at Oxford University, says the births of many girls are not registered if parent have broken the rule by having two children, and officials often turn a blind eye. It’s estimated there are now 33 million more men than women in China. 4：2 ：1 families With the ageing of China's 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 grandparents cared for by two working age