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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：夏威夷为迎合游客付出代价 GRE阅读训练：GRE阅读练习：夏威夷为迎合游客付出代价 GRE考试精品课程指导  Catering to tourists comes at a hefty price for locals  为迎合游客当地人付出沉重代价  THE sun is setting on Waikiki Beach, and Koa still has a few hours before his 9pm shift cleaning the food court at the Ala Moana mall. “Im trying to better myself,” he says, but being homeless makes this tough. He finishes work at 3am, well past curfew at most shelters, and police keep people off the beach from 2am to 5am.  维基基海滩，日暮西沉。Koa是阿拉莫阿拉购物中心美食街的保洁，现在距他9点的换班还有几个小时。“我试图不断提升自我” ，Koa称，但是无家可归的现状让这种提升举步维艰。他结束工作一般就是凌晨3点，绝大多数的庇护所早已宵禁，凌晨2点至5点警察也不允许人们在海滩逗留。  Hawaii has one of the worst rates of homelessness in the country. Though its jobless rate is below 5%, pricey housing keeps even many workers on the streets. The median monthly rent for a two-bedroom apartment in Honolulu is more than $1,800—one of the highest in America.  夏威夷的无家可归率在全美也是颇有名气，是最严重之一。尽管该地区的失业率低于5%，但是昂贵的房价让更多的工薪阶层无家可归。火奴鲁鲁两室的商品房房租中值也超过1800美元，是美国房租最高的地区之一。  On the island of Oahu, where three-quarters of Hawaiis homeless live, sleeping rough has just got rougher. On December 2nd Honolulus mayor, Kirk Caldwell, signed a bill that bans people from sitting or lying on the busiest public pavements between 5am and 11pm. Those who do so can be fined up to $1,000 and jailed for up to 30 days. This is part of a plan that Mr Caldwell calls “compassionate disruption”. The aim, he says, is to get the homeless into shelters. Businesses in Waikiki, the centre of Hawaiis $14.5 billion tourism industry, support the policy.  在欧胡岛，夏威夷75%无家可归者聚集的地方，露宿变得更加艰难。12月2日，火奴鲁鲁市长柯克·卡德维尔签署了一项禁令，禁止无家可归者在早上五点至晚上十一点这一时间段在最繁华的街道逗留。若有人违反这项规定将罚款1000美元拘留30天。这是卡德维尔所谓的“富有同情心的瓦解”计划的一部分。他声称，目的是让无家可归者居有定所。维基基的企业，夏威夷核心产业价值145亿美元的旅游业支持该项政策。  Similar crackdowns can be seen around the country, even as the stock of affordable housing—defined as costing no more than 30% of a familys income—declines. (Nearly 13% has been los