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1、2010年12月英语四六级考试阅读专项练习(25)7900字 阅读在大学英语四级考试中占有很大比重，提高阅读速度和效率是决胜英语四级考试阅读理解题的关键。为了帮助广大考生有效提高阅读速度，毕业特整理了以下资料，供考生复习。 Passage 1 毕业论文 Protecting Against PovertyConditions in the Late Nineteenth Century. 开题报告 /html/lunwenzhidao/kaitibaogao/In the great cities of the nineteenth century slum dwellers crowded
2、into foul-smelling tenements(公寓) , worked in sweatshop industries, and were victims of such working and living conditions as seemed beyond any power to remedy or change. The tenements, four to six stories high, crowded along alleys, which served as air-shafts. Only a few of the rooms faced the alley
3、; the majority of the rooms had access to neither light nor air. There was little or no inside plumbing, and frequently there was but a single sink with running water for an entire tenement. There were no playgrounds, no parks, and few schoolhouses in such areas. There were saloons(公共大厅) ; there was
4、 plenty of vice and crime; and there was disease. 毕业论文On New Yorks East Side, the death rate for children in 1888 was 140 per 1000. Today it is about 7 per 1000. Contagious diseases such as typhoid fever, smallpox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, and tuberculosis took a frightful toll every year. In the
5、1890s, Jacob Riis, a Danish immigrant, began writing stories about the conditions among the poor who lived in Murderers Alley, Hells Kitchen, Poverty Gap, the Lung Blocks, and the Bowery. His book, How the Other Half Lives, stirred the conscience of the nation. People on other parts of the country b
6、egan to see that the conditions in New York which he so vividly described might also exist in the cities where they lived. In rural districts the poor found life equally hard. Hamlin Garland, novelist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, wrote graphically(生动地) of the hardships of li
7、fe on the Middle Border. He described the hard work on the farm. There was no romance in getting up at five oclock in the morning with the temperature thirty degrees below zero. It required military discipline to get us out of bed in a chamber warmed only by the stovepipe, to draw on icy socks and f
8、rosty boots and go to milking cows. 作文 /zuowen/The Salvation(拯救) Army. 思想汇报 /sixianghuibao/In times of distress poor people were chiefly dependent upon private charities, political clubs, and religious organizations for charity. 思想汇报 /sixianghuibao/The Salvation Army, which had its beginning in Engl
9、and, was also organized in America in 1879. It was more than a religious organization concerned with the spreading of Christian faith among the poor and the outcasts of society. Its workers went into the slums and worked among the poor and destitute. Long before the twentieth century this organizati
10、on had set up employment agencies, lodging houses for the homeless, soup kitchens for the hungry, and was carrying on a whole program of social service for those in need. Its little chapels and houses of refuge were to be found in every city. 思想汇报 /sixianghuibao/The YMCA and Other Religious Agencies
11、. 开题报告 /html/lunwenzhidao/kaitibaogao/ In the same spirit the Young Mens Christian Association expanded its program to more than social and religious work among the young men of the great cities. It began to branch out into educational programs and practical service to the needy. To many of the poor
12、 immigrants coming from the Catholic countries of southern Europe, the only refuge was the Church; and the Catholic Church during the period of the 1890s and the early 1900s carried on a great and worthy program of real service to many who were in great need. The Jewish synagogue(会堂) and leaders of
13、their faith took an equally active part in the program of social service among their people. Settlement Houses. 思想汇报 /sixianghuibao/Social settlements were established in many cities during the latter part of the nineteenth century. Among the most famous were Jane Addams Hull House founded by Lillia
14、n D. Wald in New York City. Hull House and the Henry Street Settlement were not just refuges for the down and out. In these places, men and women first learned to attack in a realistic way the causes of poverty. Here the lust Americanization classes were formed. English was taught to adults, and pra
15、ctical programs were worked out to help foreigners to adjust themselves to the new ways of living in a new land. 思想汇报 /sixianghuibao/Public Efforts Against Poverty. 总结大全 /html/zongjie/The New York Commission of 1900 completed an investigation that disclosed the seriousness of the problem of poverty
16、in cities. This commission had been appointed by Theodore Roosevelt while he was governor of New York State. The result of the investigation was the passage of the first tenement law. Under this law tenements must meet certain standards of sanitation, lighting, and ventilation. 总结大全 /html/zongjie/ Local Organization. By the twent
