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  3. The percentage of immigrants(including those unlawfully present)in the United States has been creeping upward for years. At 12.

The percentage of immigrants(including those unlawfully present)in the United States has been creeping upward for years. At 12.

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问题     The percentage of immigrants(including those unlawfully present)in the United States has been creeping upward for years. At 12. 6 percent, it is now higher than at any point since the mid 1920s.
    We are not about to go back to the days when Congress openly worried about inferior races polluting America’s bloodstream. But once again we are wondering whether we have too many of the wrong sort newcomers. Their loudest critics argue that the new wave of immigrants cannot, and indeed do not want to, fit in as previous generations did.
    We now know that these racist views were wrong. In time, Italians, Romanians and members of other so called inferior races became exemplary Americans and contributed greatly, in ways too numerous to detail, to the building of this magnificent nation. There is no reason why these new immigrants should not have the same success.
    Although children of Mexican immigrants do better, in terms of educational and professional attainment, than their parents, UCLA sociologist Edward Telles has found that the gains don’t continue. Indeed, the fourth generation is marginally worse off than the third James Jackson, of the University of Michigan, has found a similar trend among black Caribbean immigrants. Tells fears that Mexican Americans may be fated to follow in the footsteps of American blacks—that large parts of the community may become mired(陷入)in a seemingly permanent state of poverty and underachievement. Like African Americans, Mexican Americans are increasingly relegated to(降入)segregated, substandard schools, and their dropout rate is the highest for any ethnic group in the country.
    We have learned much about the foolish idea of excluding people on the presumption of the ethnic/racial inferiority. But what we have not yet learned is how to make the process of Americanization work for all. I am not talking about requiring people to learn English or to adopt American ways; those things happen pretty much on their own, but as arguments about immigration heat up the campaign trail, we also ought to ask some broader questions about assimilation, about how to ensure that people, once outsiders, dont forever remain marginalized within these shores.
    That is a much larger question than what should happen with undocumented workers, or how best to secure the border, and it is one that affects not only newcomers but groups that have been here for generations. It will have more impact on our future than where we decide to set the admissions bar for the latest wave of would be Americans. And it would be nice if we finally got the answer right.
What does Edward Telles research say about Mexican Americans?
选项 A、They may slowly improve from generation to generation.
B、They will do better in terms of educational attainment.
C、They will melt into the African American community.
D、They may forever remain poor and underachieving.
答案D
解析 事实细节题。根据题干Edward Telles和Mexican Americans定位在文章第4段第3句。泰勒斯担心这些墨西哥裔美国人会陷入长期的贫穷和无所作为的境地，D项与之相符。A项“他们可能会一代一代慢慢进步”，与原文意思相反；B项“他们在教育方面会取得更好的成绩”，与原文意思相反；C项“他们可能会融入非裔美国人社区”，文中未提及。
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