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  3. American Immigrants The percentage of immigrants (including those unlawfully present ) in the United states has been creepin

American Immigrants The percentage of immigrants (including those unlawfully present ) in the United states has been creepin

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问题                       American Immigrants
    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. Telles 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 hear up the campaign trail, we also ought to ask some broader question about assimilation, about how to ensure that people, once outsiders, don’t 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 ware of would-be Americans. And it would be nice if we finally got the answer right.
According to the author, the burning issue concerning immigration is
选项 A、How to deal with people entering the U.S. without documents
B、How to help immigrants to better fit into American society
C、How to stop illegal immigrants from crossing the border
D、How to limit the number of immigrants to enter the U. S.
答案B
解析 本题实际上是考察全文的主旨大意。对于新移民潮以及有些族群移民中出现的问题，作者最担心的是如何使移民融入美国族群。全文中心词是assimilation，前面出现过的fit in(第二段末句)，Americanization等词也表达同样的意思。故B正确。A“怎样对待无证件而进入美国的人”，与C“怎样阻止非法移民穿过边境”其实是同一件事，故都不选。D“怎样限制进入美国境内的移民数量”与作者原意不符，作者第二段提到的是“太多不该来的人(wrong sort)”，而非移民总数。
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