大学英语外报外刊阅读lesson 33

Because of the finacial crisis in 2008, economic situation was very terrible and the number of unemployment people increased. As a result, the housing problem are becoming more sharp. At the end of 2010, more than 3.5 million people lost their houses because they were incapable to afford their housing loans. So many couples who are prepared to divorce want to leave the house to the other. Although the American government tried their best to prevent the situation getting worse, most people still doubt about that.
Lesson 33 More Families Are Bcoming Homeless
By Alexi Mostrous
Background Information
This passage is the result of the economic crisis in 2008. The author witness the great influence of the crisis on Amecian housing conditon, so this passage reported some new characteristics of homeless situation and the social response to the problems.
Analysis of the Content
Dபைடு நூலகம்
Paragragh 3, last sentence
D
Subtitle
A
Paragragh 7,first sentence
C
Paragragh 11
Questions on the Article
1. Louis Gill has taken to laying out cots and mattresses between the sh elter’s 174 registered beds to cope with the rush of homeless families brought to his doors by the financial crisis. 2. According to Louis Gill, in the preceding year homeless families incre ased by 34 percent and homeless children increased by 24 percent. 3. The author thinks that the recession has caused ravages including a surge in foreclosures and unemployment approaching 10 percent and d riven thousands of families onto the streets. 4. According to administration officials, the typical homeless person has changed to become less focused on the chronologically homeless or si ngle individual homeless to somebody who is part of a family whether it be a mother or a father, or a child in a homeless family. 5. The life of homeless young women is particularly fraught with danger because they are at much greater risk of being victimized when they h ave no stable home. It can be more difficult to obtain needed services.
The end,thank you!
Housing and Urban Development
department's Homelessness Pulse Project
(无家可归者状况调研项目） rural and suburban areas were particularly ill-equipped to cope with the new wave of homeless.
1.6 million people used an emergency shelter between Oct 1, 2007 and Sept. 30, 2008 a mother or a father or a child who is part of a family become the typical homelss person 81% of adults in homeless families are women who tend to be younger than 25 with children younger than 5. but the data didn't reflect the graet many families living on the edge
青 衣
homeless people concentrated in urban areas and among adult males.
20%
live in Los Angeles, Nes York and Detroit
by the U. S. Department of (HUD) 美国住房与城市发展部
mesure:
The Deparment has allocated $1.5 billion over next thred years to combat homelessness nationwide.
new words
allocate ['æləkeɪt] vt. 分配；分派 chronically ['krɑnɪkli]adv. 长期地； destabilize [di'stebi'laɪz] v. 使不稳定 disproportionately [,disprə'pɔ:ʃənitli]adv. 不成比例地 foreclosure [fɔː'kləʊʒə] n. 丧失抵押品赎回权(借款人违约， 贷 款人将获 得房产所有权的权利） fraught [frɔːt]adj. （~with）filled with充满„ 的；担心的， 忧虑的； frontline ['frʌntlain]n. 前线;一线 ill-equipped ['ili'kwipt]adj.设备缺乏的 mortgage ['mɔrɡɪdʒ]n. 抵押vt. 抵押 predominantly [prɪ'dɒmɪnəntlɪ] adv.(在数量等方面）占优势的 ravage ['rævɪdʒ]n. 蹂躏，破坏vt. 毁坏；破坏; stereotype ['stɛrɪətaɪp]n. 陈腔滥调，陈规，传统看法； surge [sɜːdʒ] n.激增；大浪 victimize ['vɪktɪmaɪz]vt. 使受害；使牺牲；
7.含糊引语(Inexplicit Quatation)： A resident of the Bakersfield Center is far more likely to be a young mother with a "good, solid job and a mortgage that she just couldn't pay."
3.借助表示说话态度的形容词： Post Executive Editor Ben Bradles was more upbeat:" We are delighted...
4.借助介词短语“according to”： But accroding to a top White House official," Until Jim Baker and his legislative...
5.借助上下文： A young woman (spoke) at a rally:" Ferraro is wonderful...
6.与间接引语结构混合使用： Mr.Hintor said the arrest of opposition leader was "one of the unforunnate aspects of the election."
language features
新闻报道引语 新闻报导引语有增强文章 真实感、客观性的作用，使 语言具有强烈的真实感和直 接感，同时还可增加结构变 化和趣味性。
1.借助“说”意动词： "They are like folks you know and that you've worked with."Gill said. 2.借助“说”意名词： State Department Spokesman John Hughes isssued a polite but justified scolding:"The tradition has been ...
According to American criterion [ [kraɪ'tɪrɪən]（评判） 标准]，over one person about each room will be considered as overoccupied[过拥拥挤]. However, there was uneven distribution on American housing problem. On one hand, the extremely rich people own manors and villas. On the other hand, many poor people live in narrow space even homeless. About 3.5 million American people who has experienced homeless, 41% are single men, 14% are single women,40% are families with children and 5% are children without parents.