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A man from Ecuador works in a Brooklyn restaurant washing dishes. He works twelve hours each day except Monday and earns about t
A man from Ecuador works in a Brooklyn restaurant washing dishes. He works twelve hours each day except Monday and earns about t
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2022-05-19
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A man from Ecuador works in a Brooklyn restaurant washing dishes. He works twelve hours each day except Monday and earns about two dollars per hour, from which are deducted his meals and his rent for the restaurant basement space he shares with two other men. His boss, for a 5 percent fee, sees to it that his letters and his money are sent home to his wife. He considers himself lucky because he has been able to work at the same restaurant for three years. His boss has helped him, and once, when there was a raid by immigration inspectors, the boss found him a place to hide until they were gone. If he can hold out for two more years, he says, his family will have enough money for a decent house and to start a small business. He misses his family very much, and from the damp walls of the basement droop a few precious photographs of his wife and four children.
Aside from his boss and the two others who share his cement-walled basement, he has spoken to no one for three years except a Catholic priest. Even though he was grateful to see the priest, he asked that the priest not come back. The man has not left the restaurant and its basement even once for the entire three years he has worked there. He has not seen daylight for those three years. The lack of daylight has impaired even his deep brown skin, giving it a yellow pallor (苍白) like a soil once rich and dark but overplanted and drained of life.
The Ecuadorian dishwasher chooses to stay inside, in what has become a kind of prison, because he fears La Migra, the immigration authorities. If they found him, they would return him home before he could finish accumulating the grubstake (资金) that might make his family’s life a bit better than it was. His fear of La Migra is so great that when he needs medicines, rather than telling his boss, for fear his boss will fire him, he waits until his wife can send them. This way, he says, he can be more secure for the two more years it will take until he has made the money he thinks he needs and can return home from exile.
Not all undocumented workers go to such extremes as the dishwasher, but they live with the same fear. It is a fear that builds so much tension, community workers say, that it often brings illness. And the fear keeps them in hiding, going out only to their jobs, to buy food, and perhaps to attend an occasional mass. They trust no one they do not know. For no one knows who will call La Migra. If they are beaten or robbed, they will not complain to the police for fear of La Migra. If they are sick, they will not go to the hospital for fear of La Migra. If they need help, they get it from friends they can trust, and not from public agencies set up to help the poor. They are a people in hiding, and, as such, invisible to most Americans. They hide because no matter how difficult their life in the U. S. is, their poverty at home is much worse. At home, as they watched their children go hungry, their meager earnings never quite enough to fill a belly, there was no hope. In America, even in fear and hiding, at least there is hope.
As mentioned in the passage, the reason why the man came to this country was that he wanted to________.
选项
A、work as a dishwasher in a restaurant
B、hide in a basement apartment
C、make money for his family
D、get away from his wife and children
答案
C
解析
细节理解题。由第一段倒数第二句可知,这个男人非法移民到美国是为了给家里挣一些钱。
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