Question

An affordable housing law passed three years ago promises a possible supply of below-market-rate homes, but has failed to encourage increased housing production and is unlikely to affect San Francisco’s poorest families.

Barbara, 44, who came to The City in 1970, have been trying to pick herself up from the bottom, where she and her children started out with just the clothes on their backs-through the  kindness of others they got by.

They were last homeless in 1999. Since then, Barbara has worked hard to keep from returning to the streets and the shelters, taking advantage first of transitional(過渡的) housing, then a rent assistance, and studying for a job as a nursing assistant and a home health aide.

However the cost for housing has made it difficult for her to live within her limit. She can’t afford proper housing. Even an improper shelter costs as much as $ 1,200 for rent. She has to spend every night in a dining room. In this respect, she is not alone. There are hundreds of thousands of San Franciscans who are in the same boat with her.

Since 2000, she’s been providing health care in the homes of charity(慈善機(jī)構(gòu)), and relying on an assistance program to pay the rent for her two-bedroom apartment in the Lower Height. A few months ago she lost her full-time job due to budget cuts, just as she had hoped to get a permanent post that would allow her to cover her $ 1,700 monthly rent.

 Now she works three or four hour shifts six days a week for $ 10.50 an hour, taking the bus around from client to client and worrying that in February, when her rent assistance is gone, she could end up on the streets with her family again.

 

39．From the passage we can learn that ____________ in San Francisco.

       A．there is a serious lack of proper housing

       B．there are many people who can not afford housing

       C．transitional housing is as expensive as apartments

       D．a(chǎn) rent assistance can be given to every citizen

40．Which of the following is not mentioned in the passage?

       A．They were once given clothes by kind people

       B．They were once sleeping on the street

       C．They were once offered transitional housing

       D．They were once living with a nursing man

41．What does the underlined part live within her limit probably mean?

       A．Live a miserable life                             B．Live beyond what she earns

       C．Make both ends meet                           D．Follow her way.

42．The passage suggests that _________________.

       A．Barbara would be homeless again          B．Barbara is a lazy person

       C．Barbara could not live without help        D．Barbara is out of work now

Answer 1

BDCC