Sunday nights in Paris are busy on the northern tip of the Canal Saint-Martin. On either side of the water, two groups form long ordered queues, albeit for different reasons. One queue is for those hoping to buy something to eat from a new gourmet hamburger truck (hour-long waits are normal). The other queue, almost all young North African men, is for those hoping to find a seat on a bus to a homeless shelter on the outskirts of the city.
    Paris is no stranger to such contrasts. Luxury and penury have always coexisted there in uneasy tension. But now a growing number of homeless are stretching the limits of the city's generosity.
    Nobody knows how many homeless there are in Paris. Data collection is meagre and infrequent. The last meaningful estimate by INSEE, France's national statistics office, dates from the mid 2000s and pegged the number, including those sleeping rough or in emergency shelters on any given night at around 12,000. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the number is considerably higher today. Despite a big expansion in shelter capacity since 2004, demand still outstrips supply. Calls to an emergency number run by Samusocial de Paris, a government-funded charity that allocates beds in emergency shelters, doubled between 2009 and 2010.
    "Our problem is too much bureaucracy and centralisation," explains Mr. Damon. Dealing with homelessness, he argues, should be the exclusive responsibility of the Paris city council. Instead, at least 12 different government bodies are charged with caring for the homeless in Paris.
    Overlapping responsibility means duplication. Paris has three separate publicly funded groups that transport homeless people to shelters. Some complain about being woken up over the course of an evening by different homeless services. Philippe Redom, a 56-year-old rough sleeper and former chef, prefers to remain in his niche outside an office block. The shelters are "too big and there is no privacy".
    Yet the most useful fix would be for rough sleepers to go closer to the top of the queue for permanent public housing, as happens in London with good results. The problem is not just that there are not enough houses, but also that the wrong people tend to get them. However welcoming the streets of Paris, the homeless would do better with a roof over their heads.  From the first two paragraphs, we learn that Paris is a city ______.
 
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】 推理判断题。第二段讲到巴黎是个什么样的城市：Luxury and penury have always coexisted there in uneasy tension. But now a growing number of homeless are stretching the limits of the city's generosity. (奢华和贫困两种现象一直以来都并存于这个城市之中，其紧张关系也令人不安。而今，随着流浪者数量的激增，巴黎这种包容的底线正在不断被延伸。)这里的generosity正好对应C项的generous。这种包容的底线正在不断被延伸，即越来越有包容性，无论是对穷人还是富人。所以答案选C项。
   A项，第一段说到有很多人排队去购买新开的美味汉堡卡车上的食物，所以A项“有很多美味汉堡卡车”错误；B项，根据第一段最后一句a homeless shelter on the outskirts of the city叮知流浪者之家是在城郊，而不是downtown(市中心)，所以此选项也错误；D项，“流浪汉能缓解富人的紧张情绪”与原文意思相反，原文的意思是富人和穷人的紧张关系一直令人不安，所以D项也错误。