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Eight hundred years ago, English noblemen forced King John to sign the Magna Carta. It’s still having amazing effects on the wor

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问题     Eight hundred years ago, English noblemen forced King John to sign the Magna Carta. It’s still having amazing effects on the world today. The Magna Carta helped introduce government with a separation of powers. It helped create conditions in which centralized authority could not totally control fiscal, political, religious or intellectual life. It helped bring in the modern Anglo-Saxon state model, with its relative emphasis on the open movement of people, ideas and things.
    The Anglo-Saxon model has its plusses and minuses, but it is very attractive to people around the world. Today, as always, immigrants flock to nations with British political heritage. Forty-six million people in the United States are foreign born, almost 1 in 6. That’s by far the highest number of immigrants in any country in the world.
    Across the English-speaking world, immigrants are drawn by the same things: relatively strong economies, good universities, open cultures and the world’s lingua franca.
    The nature of global migration is slowly evolving, too. We have an image of immigrants as the poor, huddled masses eager to breathe free. According to this stereotype, immigrants are driven from their homes by poverty and move elsewhere to compete against the lowest-skilled workers.
    But immigrants do not come from the poorest countries. Instead, immigrants tend to come from middle-class countries, and they migrate to rich, open ones. You might have thought that as the world gets more middle class, global immigration would decline because of more opportunity at home. In fact, the reverse is happening. As the developing world gets more middle class, immigration has increased because educational and income gains have led to ever higher aspirations.
    In short, it might be time to revise our stereotypes about the immigration issue. A thousand years ago, a few English noblemen unwittingly heralded in a decentralized political and intellectual model. This model was deepened over the centuries by people ranging from Henry VⅢ to the American founding fathers. It’s a model that is relatively friendly to outsider talent. We didn’t earn this model; we’re the lucky inheritors.
    Meanwhile, globalization, with all its stresses and strains, has created a large international class of middle-class dreamers: university graduates who can’t fulfill their aspirations at home and who would enrich whatever nation is lucky enough to have them.
    In this context, Hillary Clinton’s daring approach to immigration, supporting a "path to citizenship" for undocumented immigrants already in the United States, is clearly the right one. The Republican Party is insane if its conducts a 21st-century immigration policy based on stereotypes from the 1980s.
What is the conventional view of global migration?
选项 A、Immigrants are free people without family burden.
B、Immigrants are those who bear stereotyped thinking.
C、Immigrants are poor people without much working skills.
D、Immigrants are mostly from middle classes families.
答案C
解析 第四段提到了全球移民的本质正在改变，之后提到人们的固有想法(stereotype)，这与题干问的conventional view对应。传统观点认为移民挤作一团(huddle masses)，因家乡的贫困(driven from their homes by poverty)而出走，而迁到别国后也只能和技能最低的人抢饭碗(compete against the lowest-skilled workers)。C项的关键信息poor和without much working skills与文意相符。A、B两项都只是利用原文的free和stereotype作干扰。D项“移民主要来自中产阶级”是下一段提到的新趋势。
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