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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
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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2022-11-25
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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 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.
The new Pew report has found that ________.
选项
A、the two rumors about immigration are untrue
B、the immigration matters should be addressed
C、Hispanic and Asian immigrants do not help America
D、Almost all immigrants have a strong sense of belonging
答案
A
解析
由题干中的Pew可定位到第一段第二句。本题主要考查对give lie to“揭露谎言,证明……虚假”这一短语的理解,第二句指出这两种谣言都是错误的。A项中的untrue“不正确的”与此语义相符,故A项为正确答案。B项曲解了第一段最后一句中matters一词的含义,原文中的matters为动词,表示“关系重大”,而B项matters则为名词,意为“事情、问题”。C项中的Hispanic and Asian出现在第二段第二句,原文表明拉美和亚洲的移民和以前的欧洲移民没有什么不同,第三段还提到移民给美国社会带来贡献,故C项错误。第二段第五句提到了D项中的belonging“归属感”,该句用数据表明有60%的移民子女认为自己是“典型的美国人”(即有归属感),而非D项中的“几乎所有移民”。
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