6.Gregory Talley used to sleep in a park,at an airport,or under a bridge.The 50-year-old has been homeless for more than 10years."It is hard.It's hard to live homeless.You filled every day trying to find out where you are going to get something to eat.If I hadn't found wonderful Fairfax County Kennedy Shelter,I wouldn't know where I would be by now.I might be dead,"Talley said.
According to 2015government data,more than a half-million people in the United States are homeless on any given night.As many homeless shelters across the U.S.remain at or near capacity,the country faces complicated challenges.In his fiscal 2017budget,President Obama proposed spending $11billion over the next 10years to fight family homelessness.
The Kennedy Shelter is one of the facilities New Hope Housing provides for homeless families and individuals in the Washington suburbs.Pam Michell has dedicated her life to making the lives of this vulnerable population better as executive director of the nonprofit organization.
"I went to Africa in 1985.And I saw an immense amount of poverty,but I saw so much hope.And I wondered what I was doing at home in my middle-class American life and decided that I should try to do something that would bring hope to people,"Michell said."It is convenient,homelessness just happened to be what was around me.So I picked that,"she added.
When Michell began working with New Hope Housing 25years ago,its three shelters had about 80beds.Now,it has 350beds and serves about 1,500homeless people every year.Michell has expanded the program beyond just providing beds for the night.
"We do outreach,we do prevention,we do permanent housing,we do transitional housing.We have an education program with all sorts of different things to move people to end their homelessness,"she said."Our Out of Poverty program tries to teach the shelter residents self-reliance and work values,and includes courses on planning and personal responsibility."
25.Gregory Talley is mentioned in the first paragraph in order toA.
A.introduce the topic           
B.support the main idea
C.draw the reader's attention   
D.raise the reader's awareness
26.From the passage we know that the Kennedy ShelterB.
A.is a nonprofit organization   
B.is a place for the homeless to spend the night
C.is located in Washington D.C.
D.provides 350beds for 1500people
27.According to the passage,which of the following is NOT true?D
A.There were homeless people everywhere Michell went.
B.New Hope Housing does not just provide beds for the night.
C.New Hope Housing has three shelters for the homeless.
D.Michell started to work with New Hope Housing in 1985.

分析 本文主要寫了美國非營利組織幫助無家可歸者結(jié)束流浪生活.

解答 25.A 推理判斷題.通過一個流浪漢的流浪生活的描述引出要談的話題,美國的流浪漢和幫助流浪漢結(jié)束流浪生活的內(nèi)容,所以答案選A.
26.B 細節(jié)理解題.根據(jù)句子The Kennedy Shelter is one of the facilities New Hope Housing provides for homeless families and individuals in the Washington suburbs The Kennedy Shelter 是一個一個新希望住房設施提供無家可歸的家庭和個人在華盛頓郊區(qū)居住,所以答案選B.
27.D 細節(jié)理解題.根據(jù)句子homelessness just happened to be what was around me無家可歸就發(fā)生在Michell的周圍,所以A選項是正確的;Michell has expanded the program beyond just providing beds for the night.米歇爾擴大了項目,不僅僅是為夜晚提供床,所以B選項是正確的;its three shelters had about 80beds.可見New Hope Housing 擁有三個庇護所,所以C選項正確;I went to Africa in 1985.And I saw an immense amount of poverty1985年是米歇爾去非洲的日子而不是創(chuàng)辦New Hope Housing 的時間,所以D選項是正確的.故答案選D.

點評 閱讀理解題測試考生在閱讀基礎(chǔ)上的邏輯推理能力,要求考生根據(jù)文章所述事件的邏輯關(guān)系,對未說明的趨勢或結(jié)局作出合理的推斷;或根據(jù)作者所闡述的觀點理論,對文章未涉及的現(xiàn)象、事例給以解釋.考生首先要仔細閱讀短文,完整了解信息,準確把握作者觀點.

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