WASHINGTON—Laura Straub is a very worried woman. Her job is to find families for French teenagers who expect to live with American families in the summer.
It’s not easy, even desperate.
“We have many children left to place: 40 out of 75,” said Straub, who works for a Paris-based foreign exchange programme called LEC. When exchange programmes started 50 years ago, family life was more acmodating. For one thing, more mothers stayed home.
But now, increasing numbers of women work outside the home. Exchange-student programmes have struggled in recent years to sign up host families for the 30,000 teenagers who annually e from abroad to spend their academic year in the United States, as well as the thousands more who participate in summer programmes.
School systems in many parts of the US, unhappy about accepting non-taxpaying students, have also strictly limited the number of exchange students they accept. At the same time, the idea of hosting foreign students is being less exotic.
In searching for host families, who usually receive no pay, exchange programmes are increasingly broadening their appeals to include everyone who has the ability to do it.
“We are open to many different types of families,” said Vickie Weiner, eastern regional director for ASSE, a 25- year-old programme that sends about 30,000 teenagers on academic year exchange programmes worldwide.
“For elderly people, exchange students keep us young; they really do!” said Jean Foster, who is hosting 16-year-old Nina Porst from Denmark.
【小题1】Vickie Weiner is the person who .A．works for a programme called LECB．works for a programme called ASSEC．is 25 years old D．hosts foreign students【小题2】 From the passage we can learn that at the beginning of the exchange programmes .A．all the families could host foreign studentsB．only young couples could host foreign studentsC．only those who were retired could host foreign studentsD．those who were not too old could host foreign students【小题3】Which of the following is the best title of this passage?A．US Struggles to Find Host FamiliesB．Idea of Hosting Students Is DifferentC．Foreign-exchange Program Is Going OnD．Exchange Students Keep Old People YoungB
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(答案→)B
解析：文章介绍现在在美国找寄宿家庭接受来自法国的学生是很困难的，因为现在妇女在外面做越来越多，接受外国学生的吸引力也没有过去那么大了，文章还介绍如何应对的措施。
【小题1】细节题：从倒数第二段的句子：“We are open to many different types of families,” said Vickie Weiner, eastern regional director for ASSE,可知Vickie Weiner 是为ASSE工作的人，选B
【小题2】推理题：从倒数第三段的句子：In searching for host families, who usually receive no pay, exchange programmes are increasingly broadening their appeals to include everyone who has the ability to do it.和最后一段的内容，可知过去的交换项目是那些不是太老的寄宿主人，但是现在面向所有的年龄的人，选D
【小题3】主旨题：这是一篇新闻报道，开头就点明要报道的内容，WASHINGTON—Laura Straub is a very worried woman. Her job is to find families for French teenagers who expect to live with American families in the summer.可知本文的主旨：Laura Straub在美国找寄宿家庭接受来自法国的学生是很困难的，选A