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为什么很多人听力无法提高？ 原因可能有： ▪没有选对材料，听过难或简单的听力材料； ▪没有刻意训练，只是不断听，没有纠正自己的错误； ▪大多数人都会涉及到的一个问题，坚持不下来。 关注普特的小伙伴们都知道普特君一直开设听力训练营来和大家一起坚持练习听力，目前为止已经开设了十七期听力训练营，这次普特英语对听力训练营做了内容上的重大调整升级，全新的第三季第二期听力训练营（21天听力进阶训练）正式开始啦！前1000名只需49元！ 21天听力持续进阶训练： 1.每课共6个20~30秒的BBC原声音频，慢速-中速-常速进阶训练，逐步攻克听力难关 2.老师视频讲解、分析重点，配有学习笔记+译文参考，新增课外拓展阅读 3.BBC双语纪录片字幕填空训练，每课一句重点跟读练习，巩固学习成果 🔻识别二维码参与课程🔻 The United States' ongoing labor shortage is bad for employers. But it also presents a chance for workers who often had a hard time finding jobs in better economic times: former prisoners.Special training programs in Mississippi and other states are now trying to fill some of the 11.3 million open jobs in the U.S. by hiring former inmates.Antonio McGowan was a prisoner at the Mississippi State Penitentiary. After serving 17 years, he was free for the first time since he was 15. But as an adult finally out of prison, he could only find low-paying jobs.McGowan needed stable work, but all he could find were temporary jobs. He cut grass one week and painted a house the next. He could not find full-time employment and he found it hard to get a stable paycheck. Many of his bills started going unpaid.'Things weren't in place,' McGowan said. 'They weren't where I wanted them to be as far as being an individual back in society.'After several years, McGowan entered the Hinds County Reentry Program, a job-training program in Mississippi for former inmates created in October. The practice of employing people with a criminal record is known as 'second-chance hiring.'In better economic times, many former prisoners faced serious difficulties in finding work. But the labor shortage created by the COVID-19 pandemic now presents them with opportunities, said Eric Beamon. He works for MagCor, a company that provides job training to people in Mississippi prisons.Some studies have shown that stable jobs are a major factor in reducing recidivism. Recidivism is when someone returns to prison after being released.Still, not everyone is willing to hire a former prisoner. Stephanie Ferguson is an employment policy expert at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. She wrote in a May report that a lack of job opportunities for those with criminal records is hurting workforce participation in the economy.The National Conference of State Legislatures found that barriers to work that felons face were connected to a loss of at least 1.7 million employees from the economy. It also cost the economy at least $78 billion in 2014. That is the year McGowan left prison.But the work shortage could create a change. And programs like Hinds County Reentry and MagCor can help by training former prisoners to reenter society. The programs also connect them with jobs that match their skills and interests.McGowan said he would like to work in air conditioning and heating repair. The program's workers recommended him to Upchurch Services, a Mississippi-based company that permits workers to take classes in repair services while getting experience in the job. McGowan was hired the second week of May.He makes $15 an hour and works 40 hours each week. He has full health care coverage. And, he said, he loves the work.In addition to skills training, the workforce reentry programs can provide former inmates with mentors who can help them with life after prison. A mentor is someone who teaches or gives help to a less experienced person.Savannah Hayden was released from prison in November. Her mentor is Cynetra Freeman. Freeman is the founder of the Mississippi Center for Reentry. The organization offers work-training programs to inmates preparing to leave prison.Freeman remembers going to an employment agency the day after she was released from prison. She said the agency told her she would never get a job because of her criminal record.Hayden thought she might work temporary jobs and try to make enough money. But Freeman told her to use her experience as a former inmate to help others reentering society. Hayden now works for Freeman as the mental health and drug addiction coordinator at the Center for Reentry.'After so many doors are slammed in your face, you get tired of asking,' Hayden said. 'But there will be a person who says 'yes,' and that will change your life.'n.(监狱或精神病院等处)同住者; 同狱犯人; 同病房者; 
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