单选题 Companies that employ illegal immigrants are to be named and shamed in a further attempt to crack down on people smuggling. The move by the Home Office comes four months after officials launched a concerted effort to identify and prosecute companies breaking the law. More than 200 companies have already been fined for hiring illegal labor. The Home Office says names of companies and directors are to be published on the UK Border Agency website. The agency will publish how many illegal immigrants the company was employing and how much it was fined.
By May this year there had been 137 prosecutions under the new rules leading to fines totaling 500,000—almost 3,000 per firm. The total number of prosecutions was 10 times more than were carried out in 2007, and double the total for the previous decade.
Immigration chiefs are also switching their focus from small-time illegal employers, such as takeaway restaurants, in an effort to major organized criminal enterprises supplying illegal labor, often relying on international networks to smuggle people into the UK.
Some 7,500 immigration officers will be re-organized into more localized teams with police and customs officials in an effort to better target what the Home Office says are illegal working hotspots. These could include areas of the economy where there is a high demand for labor including agriculture, construction and hospitality. Nobody knows how many people are working without permission in the UK—although estimates put the number of illegal residents at more than 500,000.
Trade Union leaders have also raised concerns about the government's strategy, arguing that it could drive the worst employers further underground, penalizing exceptionally poor workers unable to break out of a situation they did not necessarily choose.

单选题 What has happened in the first four months of the campaign to crack down on companies hiring illegal workers?
A. Nothing. The campaign is still in its beginning stage.
B. 7,500 immigration officers will be re-organized into more localized teams.
C. 200 companies have been fined.
D. 3,000 small-time illegal employers have been cracked down.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】这篇文章指出了雇用非法移民的问题。第一段提到从英国内政部发起打击雇用非法移民行动的四个月以来,已有超过200家公司受到处罚。选项C是正确的。
单选题 What steps will officials take to "shame" these companies?
A. They will publish their names as well as the details of the offence online.
B. They will shut down their business.
C. They will inform the police about the illegal hiring.
D. They will give poor workers working permission.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】第一段。内政部要求所有雇用非法移民公司的名字及其董事,以及所雇用的非法移民的人数和罚款数额都要在英国边境署的网页上曝光。选项A是正确的。
单选题 Immigration officials are now focusing on ______.
A. small-time illegal employers B. fining individual workers
C. large-scale organized criminal operations D. the government's strategy
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】第三段。移民局官员已经把处罚的重点转移到大型的提供非法劳工的犯罪组织。选项C是正确的。
单选题 Trade Union officials fear that this new campaign (战役) might end up unjustly penalizing ______, by driving the employers further underground.
A. employers B. workers
C. illegal residents D. companies
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】最后一段。工会官员担心政府的策略可能会导致最恶劣的雇主转入地下活动,从而惩罚了走投无路的贫穷的工人。选项B是正确的。