2019版高考（人教）英语一轮巩固达标练：必修3U2含答案.DOC

2019版高考（人教）英语一轮巩固达标练：必修U2含答案 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. Its hard to live homeless. You filled every day trying to find out where you are going to get something to eat. If I hadnt found wonderful Fairfax County Kennedy Shelter, I wouldnt 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. Its 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 thats the frame of mind of me now. 1. Gregory Talley’s story is told at the beginning of the