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.
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"Birds of passage" refers to those who
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】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 anaffectionate 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。
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It is implied in Paragraph 2 that the current immigration system in the US
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】解析：推断题。第二段中提到了our broken immigration system(支离破碎的移民体系)和最后一句“然后我们可以开始解决移民的挑战”，可以知道美国当前的移民体系问题与挑战并存。然后根据文中两个We need to…We can recognize…then begin to solve our immigration challenges可知答案为C项“应适应新的挑战”。A项“需要新的移民种类”与原文相反，B项“放松了对移民的控制”原文未提及。D项“已经通过政治手段修复”，原文只是说在如何修复当前的移民体系这个问题上存在长期的政治瘫痪，可见还没有在政治上找到修复的办法。
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According to the author, today"s birds of passage want
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】解析：细节题。根据信号词定位到第三段，可知今天的“候鸟”跟随着工作、金钱、观念的潮流在全球各个地方迁徙。原文中的prefer与题干中的want构成同义复现．因此正确答案为D项“留下和离开的自由”。stay and leave即是原文中的come and go。A项片面，吸引短暂移民者的不仅仅是金钱(financial incentives)，还有工作(work)和观念(idea)。B项“全球的认可”、C项“得到一般工作的机会”原文均未提及。
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The author suggests that the birds of passage today should be treated
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】解析：推断题。依据出题顺序，本题答案从第四、五段中寻找。本题可用排除法。第四段“…without committing themselves to staying forever”可见他们不必是faithful(忠诚的)，排除A项。“We need them to feel that home can be both here and there”可见不是把他们看作rivals(对手)，排除D项。第五段提到我们应该适应这个新的移民世界，管理移民需要多种手段并产生多种结果，即我们对待新移民要包容，而不是简单地排斥或是把他们仅看作经济上的参与者，因此排除C项，选B项。
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The most appropriate title for this text would be