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Gregory Talley used to sleep in a park or under a bridge. The 50-year-old has been homeless for more than 10 years.
"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.
The Kennedy Shelter is one of the facilities New Hope Housing provides for homeless people.
Pam Michell has devoted her life to making the lives of this vulnerable (易受伤的)population better as executive director of the non-profit organization.
"I went to Africa in 1985. And I saw a huge amount of poverty, but I saw so much hope. And I decided that I should try to do something that would bring hope to people," Michell said.
When Michell began working with New Hope Housing 25 years ago, its three shelters had about 80 beds. Now, it has 350 beds and serves about 1,500 homeless people every year. She has expanded the program beyond just providing beds for the night.
"We do outreach(拓展), 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 is not just about money. It's about you could be spiritually poor, you could be relationship poor ... you could be
educationally poor. So it is focusing on how you get out of this poverty that has brought you to being homeless." The program tries to teach the shelter residents self-reliance (自立) and work values, and includes courses on planning and personal responsibility.
"l learned I still have opportunities to change it and I can change it," said shelter resident Lewis Webster. "It is just about going forth in doing necessary work to do it. I mean if you really want better, you would do better and that's the frame of mind of me now."
【语篇导读】本文是一篇叙事时文。主要描述美国慈善机构对流浪者的帮助。
25. Gregory Talley's story is told at the beginning of the text to .
26. According to Paragraph 6. Pam Michell started to bring hope to the homeless by .
27. What is the final purpose of the education program?
28. What may be the best title for the text?
首段点名Gregory Talley是个流浪汉,第二段引用他的话,描述自己的流浪生活,作者用他的亲身经历,引出本文主题---慈善救助。
事实细节题,直接信息理解、是非判断、年代数字、例证题。确定题目关键词,在文章中找到对应部分,回到题目逐一对照。首段点名Gregory Talley是个流浪汉,第二段引用他的话,描述自己的流浪生活,作者用他的亲身经历,引出本文主题---慈善救助。
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根据文章第六段最后一句,可知该慈善机构创办之初的目的仅仅是为街头流浪汉提供一个过夜的安身之地。
事实细节题,直接信息理解、是非判断、年代数字、例证题。确定题目关键词,在文章中找到对应部分,回到题目逐一对照。根据文章第六段最后一句,可知该慈善机构创办之初的目的仅仅是为街头流浪汉提供一个过夜的安身之地。
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根据文章第七段最后一句可知。
事实细节题,直接信息理解、是非判断、年代数字、例证题。确定题目关键词,在文章中找到对应部分,回到题目逐一对照。
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通读全文可知,文章核心词为homeless,New Hope Housing是众多非营利组织之一。
主旨大意题。抓取文章大意,综合事实。
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