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Word文档下载后（可任意编辑） 第 第 PAGE 1 页 共 NUMPAGES 1 页 GRE阅读练习：加拿大为流浪汉提供免费公寓  GRE阅读：GRE阅读练习：加拿大为流浪汉提供免费公寓  GRE冲刺周末课程  Rough sleeping——One home at a time  露宿街头：房子的救赎  How to cut the number of street dwellers—and save money, too  减少倒卧，节约开支  HANDING a homeless alcoholic the keys to a free furnished flat may seem foolish, unfair or both. That was certainly what Ted Clugston, the mayor of Medicine Hat, a Canadian town of 61,000, used to think—but experience has changed his mind. No-strings housing offers have helped bring the town within sight of a goal it set itself five years ago: to end homelessness by 2015. At the time over 1,000 people passed through its homeless shelters each year, many between spells on the street. If the municipality succeeds, it will be the first in North America to do so.  将免费的带家具的公寓的钥匙交给一个无家可归的酒鬼看起来是荒谬的、不正当的，或者是既荒谬又不正当。这也正是拥有6.1万人的加拿大小镇梅迪辛哈特的镇长Ted Clugston以前所认为的，但是一番经历使他改变了主意。不带任何附加条件的房屋供给已将该镇纳入了一个在5年前制定的目标之中：在2015年杜绝无家可归。当时每年有超过1000人获得过该镇的收容，其中许多人是长期流落街头。如果该镇成功，那将是此举在北美的首创。  Most of the long-term homeless are mentally ill, alcoholic or drug-addicted, often all three. The standard way to help them has long been the “staircase”approach: requiring them to quit drink and drugs before shepherding them through emergency shelters and temporary lodging until they are deemed ready to be housed. But many refuse to sign up. Those who do often fall off the wagon. Typically, fewer than half make it all the way to a (usually subsidised) permanent home.  大多数长期无家可归者是精神病患者、酒鬼或瘾君子，或者是三者兼而有之。帮助他们的通常的做法长期以来是“梯级解决”法：首先要求他们戒酒戒毒，然后引导他们获得临时收容和临时住所，最后，他们才被认为有资格被安置。但大多数人不干。即使这样做的人通常也会重蹈覆辙。通常，只有不到一半人可以坚持到最后，(通常是通过补贴)得到一个稳定的住所。  In 1992 Sam Tsemberis, a professor of psychiatry atNew York University, started a programme that turned that sequence on its head. Pathways to Housing gave rough sleepers furnished flats in poor districts. Medical care, treatment for addiction and help in learning to cook, pay bills and so on were of