2025届高三英语上学期一轮复习培优外刊阅读学案： “8090后”当妈

高三英语培优外刊阅读 班级：____________学号：____________姓名：____________ 外刊精选｜“8090后”当妈怎么这么难？问题到底出在哪儿？ 做母亲向来就不轻松，但80后、90后这一代人（也就是出生于1981年至1996年的“千禧一代”）做母亲的难度，恐怕还要高于以往，不管是在中国还是在美国都是如此。“千禧一代”的育儿压力，相较于60后、70后，有什么独特之处？“千禧妈妈”的困境，有什么解决办法？ Being a Mother Is Hard Work. Is It Actually Harder on Millennial Moms? By Hannah Seligson It has always been exhausting to be a mother, but each generation has had its particular pressures and ways of coping. Generation X moms had to prove that they could do everything men could do — and then come home and work a second shift. And then came millennial moms, the women raised on "You go, girl!" in the 1980s and '90s and who today are in their 30s and early 40s. Lately, some millennial mothers are finding themselves at a crisis point. While many Gen X moms confronted the middle of their lives as children were leaving for college, millennial moms are doing so with much younger children, many more years of mothering ahead of them. The expectations for modern parenting have grown alongside the pressure on women to have careers, making the standards for achievement in every arena feel stratospheric for millennial moms. Millennials were the first to step into parenthood with social media platforms like Pinterest and Instagram, which made it easier than ever to compare just how well they stacked up against other mothers. Maybe, in typical millennial fashion, we are all too deep in our own heads and too fixated on the particularities of our own situations. There is no Instagram parenting hack or self-care practice that can lift my generation out of the M.M.M.C. — and our culture has some serious work to do to be more accommodating to mothers. 【词汇过关】 请写出下面文单词在文章中的中文意思。 1.exhausting英 [ɪɡˈzɔːstɪŋ] 美 [ɪɡˈzɑːstɪŋ]adj. _____________________________ 2.exhausted adj._____________________________ 3.cope英 [kəʊp] 美 [koʊp]v. _____________________________ 4.mothering英 [ˈmʌðərɪŋ] 美 [ˈmʌðərɪŋ]n._____________________________ 5.arena英 [əˈriːnə] 美 [əˈriːnə]n. _____________________________ 6.stratospheric英 [ˌstrætəˈsferɪk] 美 [ˌstrætəˈsferɪk]adj. _____________________________ 7.parenthood英 [ˈpeərənthʊd] 美 [ˈperənthʊd]n. _____________________________ 8.hack英 [hæk] 美 [hæk]n. _____________________________ 9.accommodating英 [əˈkɒmədeɪtɪŋ] 美 [əˈkɑːmədeɪtɪŋ]adj. _____________________________ 【词块学习】 请从文章中找到下面中文相对应的文词块。 1._____________________________ 应付处理...... 2._____________________________ 如何应对压力 3._____________________________X世代 4._____________________________家务班；第二轮班 5._____________________________白班 6_____________________________夜班 7._____________________________政治领域 8._____________________________和......比较 9._____________________________偏执于......；沉溺于......；偏爱...... 拓展练习阅读理解 It has become as much a part of our daily life as getting our to-go coffee: the screen turn. It’s the moment when you’ve ordered your coffee, and the barista (咖啡师) turns the payment screen toward you with a dialog box asking you for a tip. Tipping is on the rise across the U. S. as more and more businesses have started asking for a little extra: fast food restaurants, grocery stores, online stores, stadiums, and even self-checkout machines are now asking for a tip these days. Social media is filled with people who are confused about tipping. One woman posted a video online after being asked to tip for her Subway sandwich. “Do we tip at Subway?” she asks. “Is that a thing? Tell me!” Another woman has also expressed shock over being asked to tip at a self-checkout station at an airport. “I don’t want to be the person who doesn’t tip,” she says. “But who am I tipping?” Sean Jung, a professor at Boston University, realized tipping had fundamentally changed when he was grabbing a take- out burrito (玉米馅饼) one afternoon. Jung was getting ready to pay, when the cashier turned the screen around, asking for a tip. “Suddenly, I’m looking at this screen, and I’m literally pressing a 20% tip for a burrito,” Jung recalls. “I remember thinking this is strange. You would never expect to pay a tip at a quick service restaurant.” How, exactly, did we get to the place where we’ re tipping 20% for our takeout burritos? “It goes back to the pandemic,” says Shubhranshu Singh, a professor at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. He says during the pandemic, we started tipping more than usual as a way to support essential workers at a time of crisis. “The pandemic went away,” says Singh, “but the tips didn’t.” 5．The barista’s purpose of turning the screen is __________. A．to show some commercials B．to promote new coffee options C．to speed up the ordering process D．to require extra money 6．What caused the two women’s confusion about tipping in para.3? A．They were not used to tipping. B．They didn’t know how much to tip. C．They failed to see the point of tipping. D．They didn’t want to tip for fast food. 7．Why did the pandemic make people tip more? A．Customers had more available money. B．Customers used more remote payments. C．Customers were more grateful for the service. D．Customers expected the crisis to be over soon. 8．What would be a suitable title for the text? A．Tipping culture going out of control B．Online videos about tipping C．An academic look into tipping culture D．Reasons why we should tip more 外刊精选答案 【词汇过关】 请写出下面文单词在文章中的中文意思。 1.exhausting英 [ɪɡˈzɔːstɪŋ] 美 [ɪɡˈzɑːstɪŋ]adj. 使人精疲力尽的 2.exhausted adj. 精疲力尽的 3.cope英 [kəʊp] 美 [koʊp]v. 对付，应付，处理 4.mothering英 [ˈmʌðərɪŋ] 美 [ˈmʌðərɪŋ]n. 呵护，照料 5.arena英 [əˈriːnə] 美 [əˈriːnə]n. 竞技场；领域 6.stratospheric英 [ˌstrætəˈsferɪk] 美 [ˌstrætəˈsferɪk]adj. 非常高的；平流层的 7.parenthood英 [ˈpeərənthʊd] 美 [ˈperənthʊd]n. 为人父母，家长身份 8.hack英 [hæk] 美 [hæk]n. 建议，解决方案 9.accommodating英 [əˈkɒmədeɪtɪŋ] 美 [əˈkɑːmədeɪtɪŋ]adj. 乐于助人的，与人方便的 【词块学习】 请从文章中找到下面中文相对应的文词块。 1.cope with something 应付处理...... 2.how to cope with stress 如何应对压力 3.Generation XX世代 4.second shift家务班；第二轮班 5.morning shift 白班 6.evening shift 夜班 7.the political arena 政治领域 8.stack up against和......比较 9.be fixated on偏执于......；沉溺于......；偏爱...... 【全文翻译】 做母亲不容易。“千禧一代”做母亲是不是更不容易？ 做母亲一直都是一件让人精疲力尽的事，但每一代人都有其特有的压力和应对方式。比如，“X世代妈妈”必须要证明，任何男人能做的事她们也能做，然后（下班）回到家开始“打第二份工”。“X世代妈妈”之后是“千禧妈妈”，她们生于上世纪八九十年代，是在“加油，女孩！”的口号声中成长起来的，现如今是三十多岁和四十岁出头的年纪。 最近，一些“千禧妈妈”感觉自己来到了危机关头。如果说许多“X世代妈妈”是在孩子离家上大学时感觉“人到中年”，那“千禧妈妈”有这种感觉时，孩子要小得多，还有好多年的母职工作在等着她们。 现代社会对于为人父母的要求越来越高，与此同时，女性面临的职业压力也越来越大，带来的结果是，每条赛道上衡量成就的标准，都让“千禧妈妈”感觉高不可攀。 “千禧一代”是在Pinterest和Instagram等社交媒体平台的陪伴下成为父母的第一代，这让“千禧妈妈”比以往任何时候都更容易了解，和别的妈妈相比，自己做得怎么样。 也许，作为“千禧一代”，我们都太沉迷于自己的想法，将问题归咎于我们自身的特殊情况，这是我们这一代人的风貌。不管是Instagram育儿宝典，还是自我疗愈实践，都无法带我们这代人走出“千禧妈妈中年危机”（译者注：M.M.M.C.即Millennial Mother Midlife Crisis）——而我们的社会文化还需要认真做些工作，为妈妈们提供更多支持。 拓展练习阅读理解 5．D 6．C 7．C 8．A 【导语】这是一篇说明文。文章主要说明了美国各地小费逐渐失控的现象，许多场所开始提示给小费，消费者对此感到困惑。 5．细节理解题。根据第一段“It’s the moment when you’ve ordered your coffee, and the barista (咖啡师) turns the payment screen toward you with a dialog box asking you for a tip.(当你点了咖啡，咖啡师把支付屏幕转向你，出现一个对话框，要求你给小费)”可知，咖啡师转动屏幕的目的是要额外的钱。故选D。 6．细节理解题。根据第三段“Social media is filled with people who are confused about tipping. One woman posted a video online after being asked to tip for her Subway sandwich. “Do we tip at Subway?” she asks. “Is that a thing? Tell me!” Another woman has also expressed shock over being asked to tip at a self-checkout station at an airport. “I don’t want to be the person who doesn’t tip,” she says. “But who am I tipping?”(社交媒体上到处都是对给小费感到困惑的人。一名女子在被要求为她的赛百味三明治付小费后，在网上发布了一段视频。“我们在赛百味给小费吗？”她问道。“这是一件事吗？告诉我！”另一名女性也对在机场自助结账台被要求付小费表示震惊。“我不想成为不给小费的人，”她说。“但我该给谁小费呢？”)”可知，没有意识到给小费的意义导致了两位女士对小费的困惑。故选C。 7．细节理解题。根据最后一段“He says during the pandemic, we started tipping more than usual as a way to support essential workers at a time of crisis.(他说，在疫情期间，我们开始比平时多给小费，作为在危机时期支持基本工作人员的一种方式)”可知，疫情会让人们付更多小费是因为顾客对这项服务更加感激。故选C。 8．主旨大意题。根据第二段“Tipping is on the rise across the U. S. as more and more businesses have started asking for a little extra: fast food restaurants, grocery stores, online stores, stadiums, and even self- checkout machines are now asking for a tip these days. (随着越来越多的商家开始收取额外的小费，美国各地的小费正呈上升趋势：快餐店、杂货店、网上商店、体育场，甚至自助结账机现在也开始收取小费)”结合文章主要说明了美国各地小费逐渐失控的现象，许多场所开始提示给小费，消费者对此感到困惑。可知，A选项“小费文化失控”最符合文章标题。故选A。 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$