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At the southern end of Waterloo Bridge in London, by the banks of the River Thames, stand the Royal National Theatre, the National Film Theatre and the Royal Festival Hall. (1)_________________________. They have bme a mecca for the homeless. The place is littered with the cardboard boxes and old mattresses that they use as beds. It became so popular there in the 1980s that each person had their own, much-prized space that they would
guard carefully. (2) _________________________. This was also the name of a theatre play directed by the now famous Oscar-winner (tor American Beauty) Sam Mendes.
The 1980s saw an enormous increase in people sleeping rough in Britain, as many unemployed came to cities in the south, especially London,
where jobs were easier to find. (3) _________________________. They ended up with no work and nowhere to live. Today the housing charity Shelter estimates there are around 100,000 homeless people in London alone, who are either in temporary accommodation or simply living on the streets. These people often hang around railway stations and other public places asking for money.
The British public are asked by their government not to give money to street beggars. (4)_________________________. Another way you can help is to buy a copy of The Big Issue weekly magazine.
Run for the homeless, The Big Issue is a success on many levels. Its first issue was published in 1991 it won the Magazine of the Year award in 1993, and sells 270,000 copies weekly, which means a readership of over one million.
(5) _________________________. The magazine is actually sold by the homeless themselves, which gives them a chance to earn money and retain a sense of dignity. Encouraged by its success in Britain. The Big Issue has become international, and now seventeen titles throughout Europe are being published.
A. But it's virtually impossible to get a job in Britain without a permanent address, and it's very difficult to get somewhere to live if you don't have a job, so most of those people got trapped.
. People sympathetic to the homeless are being told to donate money to charities who specialise in caring for the poor or to offer beggars gifts of food or clothes instead of money.
. It gave them a sense of security and became so permanent that the locals gave the area a nickname - Cardboard City.
D. The Labour Party administration claims that many of these people are homeless by choice, and that there are many drug addicts among them.
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E. All profits are reinvested into the magazine or diverted to The Big Issue Foundation, a charity that runs many social support programmes for the homeless.
F. In stark contrast to this centre of London's cultural activity, are the subways close by, which offer some relief from the cold at night.
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John (2) _______ (stand) at the window of the hotel room. He (3) _______ (look) absent-mindedly at the street when, suddenly, he (4) _______ (heard) a horrible cry. Everyone in the street (5) _______ (stop) people (6) _______ (wonder) where the cry (7) _______ (come) from. John (8) _______ (glance) at the house opposite. He (9) _______ (watch) the house for some weeks and he (10) _______ (be) sure that something suspicious (11) _______ (go) on there but he (12) _______ (never/notice) anything obvious enough to report it. This time he (13) _______ (think) he could report something that (14) _______ (please) his superiors.
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Little Mabel felt so excited about getting a present! She tried to (B15) _______ the box. However, the strings wouldnt yield. She appeared to (B16) _______ her ability of coping with any knot. She tried pulling the strings to (B17) _______ the knot but it only hardened. Mabel got (B18) _______ and rushed to her mother for help. However, Mother couldnt help: she (B19) _______ and said that she was very busy at the moment. The little girl was about to cry when she spotted scissors on the table. She was not allowed to touch them; but under the circumstances she made up her mind to (B20) _______.
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I had first become acquainted with my Italian friend by meeting him at certain great houses where he taught his own language and I taught drawing. All I then knew of the history of his life was that he had left Italy for political reasons; and that he had been for many years respectably established in London as a teacher.
Without being actually a dwarf - for he was perfectly well-proportioned from head to foot - Pesca was, I think, the smallest human being I ever saw. Remarkable anywhere, by his personal appearance, he was still further distinguished among the mankind by the eccentricity of his character. The ruling idea of Peska's life now was to show his gratitude to the country that had given him a shelter by doing his utmost to turn himself into an Englishman. The Professor aspired to become an Englishman in his habits and amusements, as well as in his personal appearance. Finding us distinguished, as a nation, by our love of athletic exercises, the little man, devoted himself to all our English sports and pastimes, firmly persuaded that he could adopt our national amusements by an effort of will the same way as he had adopted our national gaiters and our national white hat.
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I had seen him risk his limbs blindly unlike others at a fox-hunt and in a cricket field; and soon afterwards I saw him risk his life, just as blindly, in the sea at Brighton. We had met there accidentally, and were bathing together. If we had been engaged in any exercise peculiar to my own nation I should, of course, have looked after Pesca carefully; but as foreigners are generally quite as well able to take care of themselves in the water as Englishmen, it never occurred to me that the art of swimming might merely add one more to the list of manly exercises which the Professor believed that he could learn on the spot. Soon after we had both struck out from shore, I stopped, finding my friend did not follow me, and turned round to look for him. To my horror and amazement, I saw nothing between me and the beach but two little white arms which struggled for an instant above the surface of the water, and then disappeared from view. When I dived for him, the poor little man was lying quietly at the bottom, looking smaller than I had ever seen him look before.
When he had thoroughly recovered himself, his warm Southern nature broke through all artificial English restraints in a moment. He overwhelmed me with the wildest expressions of affection and in his exaggerated Italian way declared that he should never be happy again until he rendered me some service which I might remember to the end of my days.
Little did I think then - little did I think afterwards - that the opportunity of serving me was soon to come; that he was eager to seize it on the instant; and that by so doing he was to turn the whole current of my existence into a new channel. Yet so it was. If I had not dived
Professor Pesca when he lay under water, I should never, perhaps, have heard even the name of the woman, who now directs the purpose of my life.
A1.Peska taught
1) drawing.
2) Italian.
3) English.
4) politics.
A2.Peska impressed people by being
1) well-built.
2) well-mannered.
3) strange.
4) ill-mannered.
A3.Peska tried to become a true Englishman because he
1) was thankful to the country that had adopted him.
2) enjoyed Englishman's pastimes and amusements.
3) loved the way the English did athletic exercises.
4) was fond of the eccentric fashions of the English.
A4. '....risk his limbs blindly' means Peska
1) didn't look where he went.
2) was unaware of danger from others.
3) caused a problem for others.
4) acted rather thoughtlessly.
A5.The author didn't look after Peska carefully because
1) they both had been engaged in the peculiar English exercise.
2) foreigners were generally bathing not far from the shore.
3) the author was sure that Peska would learn to swim on the spot.
4) the author was sure that Peska was a very good swimmer.
A6.Peska wanted to do the author some favour as
1) it was in his warm nature.
2) the author had saved his life.
3) the author was his best friend.
4) he wanted to look English.
A7.Peska managed to
1) change the author's's life completely.
2) become English to the core.
3) meet a woman who later directed his life.
4) turn his existence into a new channel.
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