单选题
Deport Them or Not

In a country that defines itself by ideals, not by shared blood, who should be allowed to come, work and live here? In the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks these questions have never seemed more pressing.
On Dec. 11, 2001, as part of the effort to increase homeland security, federal and local authorities in 14 states staged "Operation Safe Travel" -raids on airports to arrest employees with false identification (身份证明). In Salt Lake City there were 69 arrests. But those captured were anything but terrorists, most of them illegal immigrants from Central or South America. Authorities said the undocumented workers' illegal status made them open to blackmail (讹诈) by terrorists.
Many immigrants in Salt Lake City were angered by the arrests and said they felt as if they were being treated like disposable goods.
Mayor Anderson said those feelings were justified to a certain extent, "We're saying we want you to work in these places, we're going to look the other way in terms of what our laws are, and then when it's convenient for us, or when we can try to make a point in terms of national security, especially after Sept. 11, then you're disposable. There are whole families being uprooted for all of the wrong reasons." Anderson said.
If Sept. 11 had never happened, the airport workers would not have been arrested and could have gone oil quietly living in America, probably indefinitely. Ana Castro, a manager at a Ben & Jerry's ice cream shop at the airport, had been working 10 years with the same false Social Security card when she was arrested in the December airport raid. Now she and her family are living under the threat of deportation (驱逐出境). Castro's case is currently waiting to be settled. While she awaits the outcome, the government has granted her permission to work here and she has returned to her job at Ben & Jerry's.
单选题 According to the author, the United States claims to be a nation ______.
  • A. composed of people having different values
  • B. encouraging individual pursuits
  • C. sharing common interests
  • D. founded on shared ideals
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 由题干中的claim定位到文章首句。作者指出，美国是一个虽然没有共同血缘关系却拥有共同理想的国家，即美国是一个建立在共同理想基础上的国家。题干中的claim对应文中的define，选项D中的shared ideals对应文中的by ideals。
单选题 How did the immigrants in Salt Lake City feel about "Operation Safe Travel"?
  • A. Guilty
  • B. Offended
  • C. Disappointed
  • D. Discouraged
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 由题干中的how和feel定位到第三段。该段提到“移民对于逮捕事件非常愤慨，他们感觉自己受到了恶意对待，就像可以任意处理的商品一样”。由句中anger和disposable goods，可见移民们的反应非常强烈，自尊心受到很大伤害，故选B offended“受到冒犯的，受到污辱的”。
单选题 Undocumented workers became the target of "Operation Safe Travel" because ______.
  • A. evidence was found that they were potential terrorists
  • B. most of them worked at airports under threat of terrorist attacks
  • C. terrorists might take advantage of their illegal status
  • D. they were reportedly helping hide terrorists around the airport
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 由题干中的undocumented workers定位到第二段末句。由此句可推断出，没有正式身份证明的工人们成为搜捕行动的目标，其原因在于，他们都没有合法的身份，而恐怖主义者可能利用他们的非法身份进行恐怖主义活动。
单选题 By saying "we're going to look the other way in terms of what our laws are" (Line 2, Para. 4), Mayor Anderson means "______".
  • A. we will turn a blind eye to your illegal status
  • B. we will examine the laws in a different way
  • C. there are other ways of enforcing the law
  • D. the existing laws must not be ignored
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 由题干中的we're going to look the other way定位到第四段。在Anderson市长的话中，and连接的前后两句实际上是转折关系。look the other way本意是指有意忽视某些不好的方面，结合后面的“一旦国家安全被提上日程，移民工人就只能被打发掉了”推测，look the other way in terms of what our laws are应是指美国在劳动力紧缺时期对移民工人的非法地位睁一只眼闭一只眼。
单选题 What do we learn about Ana Castro from the last paragraph?
  • A. She will be deported sooner or later
  • B. She is allowed to stay permanently
  • C. Her case has been dropped
  • D. Her fate remains uncertain
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 由Ana Castro定位于文章最后一段。第三、四句指出她们全家面临着被驱逐出境的威胁，案件正在被期待早日得到解决；最后一句提到当她还在等待结果时，政府已经允许她在此工作。由此可见Ana Castro和家人能否留在美国还难以确定，只有等到案件解决才能知晓。