文档介绍：【新高考】2021年高考英语模拟试卷猜题卷1
本试卷满分120分，考试时间100分钟。
第一部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分50分） 第一节（共15小题；，） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）explores life and death?
To Kill a Mockingbird.
When Breath Becomes Air.
Don't Shed Your Tears for Anyone Who Lives on These Streets.
Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A true (as told to me) story.
Who is the main character in the last novel?
A. Bobby Bell.
B. Bess Kalb.
C. Bess's mother.
D. Bobby's mother.
B
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 front-row 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 di