专题03 阅读理解说明文20篇（名校最新期末真题）-2022-2023学年高一英语期末考试真题汇编（新高考专用）

专题03 阅读说明文20篇 经典基础题 1. 山东省枣庄市第八中学2022-2023学年高一上学期开学考试英语试题 The Chinese government ends its one-child policy (政策) and allows families to have three children. The policy is meant to balance population development, stop a falling birth rate (出生率) and strengthen the country’s labor force (劳动力). China, with the largest population in the world, started the one-child policy in 1980. But the government allowed only a small number of couples to have two children. For example, some families in the countryside could have two children, if the first-born child is a girl. In 2016, the Chinese government gave other couples a chance to have two children if one of them was an only child. Because of aging of population, in 2021, it allowed families to have three children. To the newest policy, different families have different opinions. “Too many young people in the cities are no longer interested in having two or three children,” an official said. “People in the countryside are more interested.” At the