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Two of the most common rumors about immigrant families are that they don’t really want to become American and that they’re a dra

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问题     Two of the most common rumors about immigrant families are that they don’t really want to become American and that they’re a drag on the rest of us. But a fascinating new Pew report gives lie to both fears. In the process, it reminds us why immigration matters.
    The study shows first of all that Americanization is proceeding as inevitably now as during previous great waves of migration. Yes, today’s immigrants are Hispanic and Asian rather than European. But that has not made a difference. Today’s 20 million adult sons and daughters of immigrants have learned English, advanced economically, and intermarried far more than their parents did and no more slowly than the Italians or Irish or Poles did a century ago. Nearly six in ten—almost double the percentage of their parents—consider themselves "typical Americans."
    As for whether immigrant families are a drag on society, the facts are clear. Second-generation Americans—the children of immigrants—are not just doing better than their parents. Their educational attainment and income are actually above the national average. They are contributors. If anything, as other research has shown, it is America that can be harmful to immigrant families: obesity and criminality increase from the first to the second generation. So the question should not be how to keep newcomers from diluting America but how to keep America from diluting the newcomers. This presents a challenge to both native-born Americans and today’s immigrants.
    The Pew report notes that Americans who are of foreign birth or parentage, so-called "immigrant stock," will constitute a record 37% of the population by 2050. This frightens many white Americans to the core, especially those who are older and live in communities only recently touched by immigration. But for today’s "immigrant stock," this moment creates an opportunity. Immigrants of earlier centuries proved that every kind of European could become simply white; today’s immigrants prove that every kind of human can become simply American. But this means encouraging them to strive not only for their own families but also for the nation, through service and civic participation.
    We should bear in mind that whether we are native-born or newcomer, our task now, then, is to apply an immigrant’s ingenuity, optimism, and perseverance to the systematic expansion of opportunity in America. To do that, as history shows and recent studies confirm, it’ll help to have more immigrants around.
We can learn from Paragraph 3 that immigrant families
选项 A、do not slow down but speed up American progress.
B、are better off than natives in education and income.
C、are diluting America as a united and coherent society.
D、pose a potential challenge to the American society.
答案A
解析 第三段首句直接表明事实可以证明移民家庭是否成为美国社会的累赘。第二、三句列举了教育水平和收入水平的事实，第四句归纳说明移民家庭为美国社会做出了贡献，A项“加速美国社会发展”与第四句中的contributor相符，为正确答案。B项根据education and income可以定位至该段第三句，原文指出移民的孩子比他们的父辈表现更好，教育水平以及收入水平高出全国平均水平，但没有提到与美国本地人(natives)的对比。C项由diluting可以定位至第三段倒数第二句，考查了对该句not．．．but…结构的理解，该句表明问题不是如何防止移民削弱美国社会，而是如何防止美国社会削弱移民，C项与原文意思相反。D项对该段最后一句中challenge一词理解错误，原文最后一句this指代上一句中的防止美国社会削弱移民的问题，而这一问题对土生土长的美国人和今天的移民来说都是挑战，这与D项说的“潜在的挑战”不是同一概念。
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