Unit 3 Section Ⅰ Starting out & Understanding ideas（作业）-2022-2023学年新教材高中英语选择性必修第二册【精讲精练】外研版

[限时检测] [限时30分钟] Ⅰ.阅读理解 A (2021·忻州期中)Communities change in all sorts of ways over time. My few trips home over the years have given me an idea of the long­term influence on a community when population falls even while wealth rises. I come from one of the beautiful seaside towns that dot the Jersey Shore just seventy­five miles south of New York City. When I was growing up thirty­five years ago, these were lively and busy communities filled year­round with residents (居民) and full of tourists all summer. Today, I notice one big change since my childhood：no people.No children playing around, no traffic in the streets and no customers looking through the storefronts.The big beautiful Victorian homes that housed families with five or more children and grandparents now sit quiet.The line of old bicycles in the drive has been replaced by a single luxury (豪华的) car from other states. Few who grew up here can afford to live in their parents' homes today. Over time, the beauty of the place along with its perfect location turned a middle­class, family­centered neighborhood into a collection of vacation homes for the rich. The town is too expensive for the “locals” but too far from the city for workers. It is not bad—just different. Unless of course you own a small business that was built to serve a large year­round population.Small hardware stores，clothes shops, gift shops and independent cafes have been replaced by law offices and businesses dealing with houses and land. The hospitality (招待) industry，which includes my parents' business, is having a hard time as there just aren't enough customers between September and June. The land is worth more than the business itself, waiting for condo (公寓) developers. Rising land and house values in Oak Park make me think of my family's experience on the Jersey Shore. A community is more than a place—it is the people who live there. Who will live in Oak Park in thirty years? Just wondering. [语篇解读]　这是一篇说明文。文章中作者通过描述自己家乡的变化，由多年前受欢迎的景点到如今的人口