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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

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问题     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.
According to Paragraph 3, immigrant families ________.
选项 A、do not slow down but speed up American progress
B、are better off than natives in education and income
C、are diluting America as a united and coherent society
D、pose a potential challenge to the American society
答案A
解析 根据题干可直接定位到第三段。该段第一句指出，事实可以证明移民家庭是否为美国社会的累赘。第二三句列举了第二代移民教育水平和收入比全国平均值要高的事实，第四句归纳说明移民家庭为美国社会作出了贡献，A项中的“加速美国的发展”与第四句中的contributors意思相符，故A项为正确答案。B项根据第三句中的educational…and income设置干扰，原文指出第二代移民(而非immigrant families“移民家庭”)的教育水平及收入高出全国平均水平，也不能说他们就比所有美国本地人(natives)要高。C项由diluting可以定位至第三段第六句，考查对该句not…but…结构的理解，该句表明，问题不是如何防止移民削弱美国社会，而是如何防止美国社会削弱移民，C项与原文意思不符，而且as a united and coherent society也是无中生有的内容。D项中的challenge出现在该段第七句，句首的This指代上一句中的防止美国社会削弱移民的问题，而这一问题对土生土长的美国人和今天的移民来说都是挑战，而不是D项说的“美国社会的潜在挑战”。
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