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  3. Latino youths need better education for Arizona to take full advantage of the possibilities their exploding population offers. A

Latino youths need better education for Arizona to take full advantage of the possibilities their exploding population offers. A

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问题     Latino youths need better education for Arizona to take full advantage of the possibilities their exploding population offers. Arizona’s fast-growing Latino population offers the state tremendous promise and a challenge. Even more than the aging of the baby boomers, the Latino boom is fundamentally reorienting the state’s economic and social structure.
    Immigration and natural increase have added 600,000 young Latino residents to the state’s population in the past decade. Half of the population younger than 18 in both Phoenix and Tucson is now Latino. Within 20 years. Latinos will make up half of the homegrown entry-level labor pool in the state’s two largest labor markets.
    What is more, Hispanics are becoming key economic players. Most people don’t notice it, but Latinos born in Arizona make up much of their immigrant parents’ economic and educational deficits. For example, Second-generation Mexican-Americans secure an average of 12 grades of schooling where their parents obtained less than nine. That means they erase 70 percent of their parents’ lag behind third-generation non-Hispanic Whites in a single generation.
    All of this hands the state a golden opportunity. At a time when many states will struggle with labor shortages because of modest population growth, Arizona has a priceless chance to build a populous, hardworking and skilled workforce on which to base future prosperity. The problem is that Arizona and its Latino residents may not be able to seize this opportunity. Far too many of Arizona’s Latinos drop out of high school or fail to obtain the basic education needed for more advanced study. As a result, educational deficits are holding back many Latinos—and the state as well. To be sure, construction and low-end service jobs continue to absorb tens of thousands of Latino immigrants with little formal education. But over the long term, most of Arizona’s Latino citizens remain ill-prepared to prosper in an increasingly demanding knowledge economy.
    For the reason, the educational uplift of Arizona’s huge Latino population must move to the center of the state’s agenda. After all, the education deficits of Arizona’s Latino population will severely cramp the fortunes of hardworking people if they go unaddressed and could well undercut the state’s ability to compete in the new economy. At the entry level, slower growth rates may create more competition for low-skill jobs, displacing Latinos from a significant means of support. At the higher end, shortages of Latinos educationally ready to move up will make it that much harder for knowledge-based companies staff high-skill positions.
What can be inferred from the third paragraph?
选项 A、The Latino population in Arizona is made up of Hispanics and Mexican-Americans.
B、The first-generation Latinos are immigrants instead of being bora in America.
C、70 percent of the first-generation Latinos had less schooling than nine years.
D、The educational system used to be in favor of the non-Hispanic Whites.
答案B
解析 本题题干没有关键词，属于段落定位题，定位于第三段。第三段第三句提到，第二代墨西哥裔美国人平均肯定能上12年学，而他们的父母却只上了不足9年学，这表明第二代墨西哥裔美国人比他们的父母获得更好的教育。而这一句是为了举例说明第二句提到的在Arizona出生的拉丁裔和他们的移民父母之间的区别，由此可见，第二句提到的“immigrant parents’’就是第一代的拉丁裔美国人，immigrant一词表明他们并非在美国出生，因此选项B与原文为相同含义，为正确选项。选项A的“Hispanics and Mexican—Americans”来自第三段第一句和第三句。但文中只是列举了这两类人，并不能判断拉丁裔人口就只由西班牙裔和墨西哥裔美国人组成，因此选项A属于主观推导。70 percent在原文中指的是第二代拉丁裔只用了一代入时间就消除了父母与第三代非西班牙裔白人之间70％的差距，而less schooling than nine years指的是第二代墨西哥裔美国人的父母只上了不足九年学，因此选项C属于曲解文意。根据第三段可知，第一代拉丁裔与非西班牙裔白人之间有差距，第二代拉丁裔在经济和教育方面弥补差距，但无法判断教育体系过去是否只对非西班牙裔白人有利，因此选项D属于主观推导。第三段：第二代拉丁裔正逐步弥补上代入在经济和教育方面的不足。
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