Last summer, some twenty-eight thousand homeless people were afforded shelter by the city of New York. Of this number, twelve thou sand were children and six thousand were parents living together in families. The average child was six years old, the average parent twenty seven. A typical homeless family included a mother with two or three children, but in about one-fifth of these families two parents were present. Roughly ten thousand single persons, then, made up the remainder of the population of the city’ s shelter.
These proportions vary somewhat from one area of the nation to another. In all areas, however, families are the fastest-growing sector of the homeless population, and in the Northeast they are by far the largest sector already. In Massachusetts, three-fourths of the homeless now are families with children; in certain parts of Massachusetts-Attleboro and Northampton, for example-the proportion reaches 90percent. Two thirds of the homeless children stud
A. more people in a families than single persons
B. about six thousand families
C. 3 children in a family
D. more families with two parents than one
Last summer, some twenty-eight thousand homeless people were afforded shelter by the city of New York. Of this number, twelve thou sand were children and six thousand were parents living together in families. The average child was six years old, the average parent twenty seven. A typical homeless family included a mother with two or three children, but in about one-fifth of these families two parents were present. Roughly ten thousand single persons, then, made up the remainder of the population of the city’ s shelter.
These proportions vary somewhat from one area of the nation to another. In all areas, however, families are the fastest-growing sector of the homeless population, and in the Northeast they are by far the largest sector already. In Massachusetts, three-fourths of the homeless now are families with children; in certain parts of Massachusetts-Attleboro and Northampton, for example-the proportion reaches 90percent. Two thirds of the homeless children stud
A. Robert Hayes thought more homeless people are family members
B. There is a trend that more and more homeless people live in families
C. The proportion of homeless families remains the same in the country
D. Most of the children had the opportunity, to study in Boston
A Shelter for the Homeless
Last summer I was a volunteer (志愿者) at a shelter for the homeless, a place for homeless people to sleep at night. I wasn’t working that summer and was (21) only two classes in summer school, so I had some (22) time. Three nights a week, I (23) in the kitchen of the shelter along with four other volunteers. We planned and (24) for 45 people hot meals (25) vegetables, chicken, fish and fruit. The homeless people (26) this good food because many of them usually didn’t eat well.
I (27) this volunteer work, making (28) with the four volunteers in the kitchen. One was a very nice elderly housewife, one a movie actor, another a young teacher, and the other a college student, like me.
I talked to a lot of the homeless people at the shelter. Their life stories (29) me with sympathy (同情). Some of them had (30) with alcohol (酒) or drugs while
A. with
B. from
C. by
D. in
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