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训练(六)　主旨大意题 [对应学生用书P98] A (2022·绵阳中学模拟预测)For years, life went something like this: We'd grow up in one place, head off to college, and then find a city to get a job and live there for a few years.The final goal was to find somewhere to settle down, buy a house, start a family, and begin the whole cycle all over again.But now some people are increasingly choosing to move from city to city throughout their entire lives, sometimes as frequently as every month. Just ask Alex Chatzieleftheriou, who has had a front­row seat watching this evolution unfold.Six years ago, he launched a startup called Blueground that rents out beautifully designed, fully furnished apartments for a month at a time, at rates that are cheaper than hotels.And it aims to make each one feel unique and comfortable, rather than standardized, like what you might find in a traditional hotel. Today, the company has 3，000 properties(房地产) in six U．S.cities, along with Dubai, Istanbul, London, Paris, and Chatzieleftheriou's native Athens, and a staff of 400.With the help of the Series B round of funding, the company landed $ 50 million, plus its previous total of $28 million, to continue its rapid expansion.It hopes to have 50，000 properties in 50 cities over the next three years. Chatzieleftheriou first came up with the idea for Blueground while he was working as a management consultant for McKinsey.“The accommodation of choice for consultants is the hotel，” he says.“I had to spend five years in hotel rooms, living in 12 different cities.I loved seeing the world, but I didn't love feeling like I didn't have a home.” And what's more, hotels aren't a particularly cost­effective solution for companies either.In Chatzieleftheriou's case, McKinsey sometimes paid $ 10，000 or more for him to stay in a major city for a month. [语篇解读]　这是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了一种新的生活方式，即频繁去不同的城市生活甚至每个月换一个城市和 Chatzieleftheriou 抓住这个机遇创办公司的经历。 1．What does the author intend to tell in the first Paragraph? A．A new lifestyle is appearing. B．Life