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W: Urn... not more so than anybody else, I don't think.., urn, but err, I'm very lazy, I'm sure I'm doing a lot of things wrong.., urn, but err, so far so good. I do look after it in the fact that I try not to get very tired, or wear myself out, because not just, you know talking does as much damage, and laughing the wrong way, as singing does...
M: Is that so？ I didn't realize that...
W: Yeah... Some people talk... If you talk like this, you put a lot of strain on the back of cords there, urn, that does a lot of damage to your voice over a number of years, so you try and, I try and talk the way I'm talking now, not very fast, not very high-pitched, and without much pressure on my voice.
M: When you're singing, your voice sounds wonderfully relaxed, but that's not the idea that most people would have of the music business as a whole. Is the, is the life-style. very stressful？
W: Yes, as a matter of fact, it's very demanding, urn, it's probably like a, an executive job, urn, here you can't come home at a certain nine-to-five, you can't spend a lot of your time with people around you, you feel detached because you know, it's like, I, I... I don't necessarily have a schedule, I might work on weekends, um, but... I don't actually mind, but it's like your family, your boyfriend, or your husband, or whatever, they can't get to see you, it's like last night, I, err it's like I was supposed to be going out to have dinner with old friends, you know with some friends, and, I ended, I was at a studio, and I said, oh I should be finished around seven, and of course eleven o'clock came, and I was still at the studio, and everybody was raving mad, and I got there only to find that everybody was getting ready to leave the restaurant... Things like that do happen, you know you can't, you.., you're not tied to that, and because of that sometimes you feel you can't do things that other people, nine-to-five, can do. You might have a day off on a Tuesday, and all your nine-to-five friends have got to get up to go to work, so they don't necessarily want to go out on the town or to the countryside or to the beach, the way you might want to on a Saturday, and so you find that you, you change, and you hang around with more people in the business, because their schedules all fit yours...
M: You mean it is your music career that determines the pattern of your social life？
W: Yes, I mean you can have more of a social life within the business. It's not that you just want to hang out with the famous people, it's just that they're the ones that are available...
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11. What is the job of the woman being interviewed？
12.Which of the following types of work is compared with the woman's job in the interview？
13.According to the interview, which of the following statements is NOT true？
14.Why did the woman let down her friends by being late at the restaurant last night？
15.What is the main topic of this interview？
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听力原文： In the United States, homelessness had grown at a dramatic rate during the last decade.
Estimates of the number of Americans currently without a permanent home vary wildly. Advocacy groups like the National Coalition for the Homeless say that close to 3 million Americans live on the streets or in emergency and temporary shelters. The U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development puts the figure at 350,000.
Yet both bureaucrats and advocates agree on one point, that is, the face of homelessness has changed radically in the past 10 years, as more and more low-income housing is mowed down in the name of progress. Some 20 years ago, says Kristen Morris, assistant director of the New York, office of the National Coalition for the Homeless, the typical "street person" was a White male who suffered from a mental illness or an addiction to drugs or alcohol. Today's homeless, however, are a more eclectic group.
More than 60 percent of the homeless today are Black, mostly single mothers with small children. More than half of them have never been homeless before. In many cases, they have been evicted form. their homes or the low-income housing in which they lived was demolished or burned down. About 60 percent of all homeless people live on some form. of public assistance with an average monthly income of 210 dollars. About 20 percent are mentally ill. According to Marie Robinson who is a lawyer for the coalition for the Homeless, "There has been a real democratization of skid row". All sorts of people have been pushed out of the housing market because of the critical shortage of affordable places to live.
As a result, homelessness has climbed to the top of the "me-generation's" short list of social concerns. But there is a great gap between concern and active involvement in the effort to solve this growing problem. For many people, the inaction is due to ignorance, not indifference. According to Ellen Rocks, who is executive director of the House of Ruth, a Washington, D. C. organization that provides shelter and other services to women who are homeless or are the victims of domestic violence, "There are a lot of people who want to get involved but don't really know how. "
The fact is that there are many ways in which individuals can help the homeless. Yet for those people truly interested in the cause, one of the first steps is to get to know the homeless and understand how they became that way. Many advocates believe that it is important for middle-class people to get to know and reach out to the homeless and bridge the gap that exists. "Middle-class people have to learn that what is happening in America today is an all-out war on the poor. Just as America once robbed the Indians of their land, today we're robbing the poor of affordable housing. "
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16. According to the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, how many Americans are homeless？
17.According to the talk, which of the following is responsible for the dramatic growth rate of homelessness？
18.Which of the following statements is TRUE about the homeless people？
19.Why is there a great gap between mere concern and active involvement in solving the problem？
20.According to the talk, what is one of the first steps to help these homeless people？
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