首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
A century ago, the immigrants from across the Atlantic included settlers and sojourners. Along with the many folks looking to ma
A century ago, the immigrants from across the Atlantic included settlers and sojourners. Along with the many folks looking to ma
admin
2019-06-11
55
问题
A century ago, the immigrants from across the Atlantic included settlers and sojourners. Along with the many folks looking to make a permanent home in the United States came those who had no intention to stay, and who would make some money and then go home. Between 1908 and 1915, about 7 million people arrived while about 2 million departed. About a quarter of all Italian immigrants, for example, eventually returned to Italy for good. They even had an affectionate nickname, "uccelli di passaggio", birds of passage.
Today, we are much more rigid about immigrants. We divide newcomers into two categories: legal or illegal, good or bad. We hail them as Americans in the making, or brand them as aliens to be kicked out. That framework has contributed mightily to our broken immigration system and the long political paralysis over how to fix it. We don’t need more categories, but we need to change the way we think about categories. We need to look beyond strict definitions of legal and illegal. To start, we can recognize the new birds of passage, those living and thriving in the gray areas. We might then begin to solve our immigration challenges.
Crop pickers, violinists, construction workers, entrepreneurs, engineers, home health-care aides and physicists are among today’s birds of passage. They are energetic participants in a global economy driven by the flow of work, money and ideas. They prefer to come and go as opportunity calls them. They can manage to have a job in one place and a family in another.
With or without permission, they straddle laws, jurisdictions and identities with ease. We need them to imagine the United States as a place where they can be productive for a while without committing themselves to staying forever. We need them to feel that home can be both here and there and that they can belong to two nations honorably.
Accommodating this new world of people in motion will require new attitudes on both sides of the immigration battle. Looking beyond the culture war logic of right or wrong means opening up the middle ground and understanding that managing immigration today requires multiple paths and multiple outcomes, including some that are not easy to accomplish legally in the existing system.
"Birds of passage" refers to those who
选项
A、find permanent jobs overseas.
B、leave their home countries for good.
C、immigrate across the Atlantic.
D、stay in a foreign country temporarily.
答案
D
解析
细节题。文章第一段即出现了birds of passage。第一段最后一句话为They even had an affectionate nickname,“uccelli di passaggio,”birds of passage。此句中They指代前一句的 About a quarter…for good,也就是指那些在移民地工作了一段时间又返回家乡的人们,因此D 项“在外国短暂停留的人们”正确。A项“在海外找到了永久工作的人们”、B项“为了某种好处 离开家乡的人们”、C项“跨越大西洋移居的人们”均与文章不符。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/bB9Z777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
RunningfortheofficeofthePresidentoftheUnitedStatesisexceptionallyarduousandshouldnotbeundertakenbythe【C1】___
"Nanny","tyrant"—thesewereamongthechargeshurledatMichaelBloomberg,NewYork’smayor,whenheproposedabanonbigfizz
"IfCongresswon’tactsoontoprotectfuturegenerations,Iwill,"BarackObamasaidlastmonthinhisstate-of-the-unionspeec
Europeanregulatorshavecontributedtotheirbanks’decline,intwoways.First,theyarespecifyinghowmuchbankscanpayin
Onereasonwhyshareholderactivismhasbeenincreasingisthatregulatorshaveencouragedit,especiallyonpay.ForadecadeB
IntheSecondWorldWara"blockbuster"wasabombthatcouldeliminatewholestreets.Todayitisthekindofhitcreationthat
AimlessnesshashardlybeentypicalofthepostwarJapanwhoseproductivityandsocialharmonyaretheenvyoftheUnitedStates
Duringthepasttwodecadesastonishingprogresshasbeenmadeinfightinginfectiousdiseasesinpoorcountries.Poliohasalmo
Duringthepasttwodecadesastonishingprogresshasbeenmadeinfightinginfectiousdiseasesinpoorcountries.Poliohasalmo
Inthelate1960’s,manypeopleinNorthAmericaturnedtheirattentiontoenvironmentalproblems,andnewsteel-and-glassskysc
随机试题
典型心绞痛的发作部位主要是
某孕妇,末次月经为2005年2月25日,其预产期应为
女性,28岁。发热、咳嗽、咯血3天就医。X线胸片示右中肺野2.5cm×2.5cm圆形密影,边缘清晰,上方仅见一小透亮区和液平段。空腔壁甚薄。肺门不大。其余肺野未见异常。既往有类似发病史,根据临床和X线征象,其最可能的诊断是
己糖激酶法是测定血糖的
为孤立基牙,如想达到好的固位和支持作用应选用卡环固位体是
对建设工程项目的结构主要部位除了常规检查外,还要在分部工程验收时,要求建设单位将施工、设计、监理、建设单位各方分别签字的质量验收证明在验收后()天内报送工程质量监督机构备案。
下列各种情况中,使总收益增加的是()。
【弗洛伊德】(SigmundFreud,1856—1939)南京大学2000年世界近现代史真题;南京大学2005年世界近现代吏真题;苏州大学2015年世界吏专业基础综合真题
牙周组织内的胶原主要是()。
Afterretiringfrom30yearsofteaching,EthbellPeppercouldeasilyhavedecidedtositbackand【B1】______andenjoyapeaceful
最新回复
(
0
)