外研版（2019）必修1《Unit 3 Family matters》2021年同步练习卷（课时分层作业9）

Ⅰ.阅读理解

• 1．Living alone is hard，especially for older people.Apart from loneliness，plenty of housework also troubles them.Recently，a Canadian organization pairs older homeowners with poor college students.
     College students are trying to find cheap，comfortable places to live in without getting much debt（债务）.Living in the school is a choice，but it often comes with crowded bathrooms，shared bedrooms，and sometimes the price is higher than local apartments'.Toronto HomeShare noticed both of these problems and came up with a solution.
     In exchange for doing some housework and providing company，students are able to live in warm，familial environments without breaking the bank.The pairings do not only benefit the older partners but also the young.For example，Nick，a 27 year-old graduate student who lives with 75 year-old Maureen Tara and her grownup daughter，told Toronto Life，"Coming back to Tara's family balances me out because they always make me relaxed.If I've had a hard day and I'm feeling low，there's lots of love in the air."
     Older partners need different levels of caring.Maureen has dementia（痴呆），so her daughter hopes Nick can give a hand when she's not around.Sometimes，older roommates might have trouble bringing things in from the car or might need someone to remind them where they've put their house keys，or they might just want to talk to someone.Students who've moved to a new city，far from their families and the comfort of a home-cooked meal，find a peaceful resting place away from the busyness of the university life in their living situation.
     This practice already began in other cities.The emotional and practical benefits of those home-share programs are clear.Besides，the generation gap between them can also be reduced.They might just make college graduates wonder why this wasn't a choice when they were sharing dirty double beds with other college students in school.
  
  （1）What made Toronto HomeShare bring up the home-share program？

  
  A．The wish to make more money.
  B．The challenge of living alone of the old.
  C．The living problems faced by college students.
  D．The generation gap between the old and the young.
  （2）What does the author use the example of college graduate Nick to show？

  
  A．Maureen's family treats Nick kindly.
  B．Those programs are popular with people.
  C．Old people need young people's help and care.
  D．Young people can get emotional benefit from the program.
  （3）What does the author mainly tell readers in the text？

  
  A．College students help old people.
  B．The emotional benefits of a program.
  C．Old people care about college students.
  D．The old and the young benefit each other.
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