As Texas begins to recover from two
weeks of devastating storms, a generally hidden truth about its economy will
come to light again. Most of the builders and electricians who will have to
repair the houses, remake the roads and re-establish the electrical power lines
will have to take on undocumented workers in order to meet their contracts. In
1996 the Immigration and Naturalisation Service (INS) conservatively estimated
that Texas had over 600,000 undocumented immigrants doing the jobs no one else
wants: hauling carcasses in packing plants, picking fruit, cleaning hotel rooms,
or sorting out the unspeakable damage caused by natural disasters.
Mention the issue of these workers to a Texan, and he is liable to fall
uncharacteristically silent. Even state legislators avoid the issue. They know
that many of their constituents e
A. Many illegal workers look for work in areas near major cities.
B. Employers never supply transportation to the place of work.
C. Illegal workers do not present any documents in order to get the job.
D. The illegal workers do jobs that others would consider undesirable.
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As Texas begins"的相关试题:
[单项选择] Passage 1
As Texas begins to recover from two
weeks of devastating storms, a generally hidden truth about its economy will
come to light again. Most of the builders and electricians who will have to
repair the houses, remake the roads and re-establish the electrical power lines
will have to take on undocumented workers in order to meet their contracts. In
1996 the Immigration and Naturalisation Service (INS) conservatively estimated
that Texas had over 600,000 undocumented immigrants doing the jobs no one else
wants: hauling carcasses in packing plants, picking fruit, cleaning hotel rooms,
or sorting out the unspeakable damage caused by natural disasters.
Mention the issue of these workers to a Texan, and he is liable to fall
uncharacteristically silent. Even state legislators avoid the issue. They know
that many of their constituents e
A. is seen as a problem by local authorities
B. is tolerated given that it helps the local economy
C. can be considered evidence of the failing economy
D. is a source of racial conflict
[单项选择]
As Texas begins to recover from two weeks of devastating storms, a generally hidden truth about its economy will come to light again. Most of the builders and electricians who will have to repair the houses, remake the roads and re-establish the electrical power lines will have to take on undocumented workers in order to meet their contracts. In 1996 the Immigration and Naturalisation Service (INS) conservatively estimated that Texas had over 600,000 undocumented immigrants doing the jobs no one else wants: hauling carcasses in packing plants, picking fruit, cleaning hotel rooms, or sorting out the unspeakable damage caused by natural disasters.
Mention the issue of these workers to a Texan, and he is liable to fall uncharacteristically silent. Even state legislators avoid the issue. They know that many of their constituents employ undocumented workers. They also know that the booming Texas economy is driven in part by the ready supply of cheap, diligent, illegal labour.<
A. is seen as a problem by local authorities
B. is tolerated given that it helps the local economy
C. can be considered evidence of the failing economy
D. is a source of racial conflict
[单项选择]
Passage Four
Education begins with teachers. Yet teaching seems to be losing its appeal for many of the best and brightest college students. In high school, many of the best students decide that they want to be teachers, but their relatives and friends soon convince them to change their minds. One student’s mother kept reminding her of the relatively skimpy salaries teachers currently earn until the student changed to another major. Another student took computer science courses because his father thought that teachers were at the bottom of the social ladder. One said that none of her friends looked upon teaching as a worthwhile career, so she came to think of teaching as not noble enough and went into pharmacy instead. According to several recent reports on the shortcomings of American public schooling, teaching’s lack of appeal for the brightest college students is one of the teaching profession’s most worr
A. teachers are indispensable to education
B. teaching is not a worthwhile career
C. teaching is losing its appeal for the best college students
D. teaching profession is looked down on by most parents
[填空题]Where is the passage likely to be taken from
From a ______.
[单项选择] Passage 3
Fried foods have long been frowned
upon. Nevertheless, the skillet is about our handiest and most useful piece of
kitchen equipment. Stalwart lumberjacks and others engaged in active labor
requiring 4,000 calories per day or more will take approximately one-third of
their rations prepared in this fashion. Meat, eggs, and French toast cooked in
this way are served in millions of homes daily. Apparently the consumers are not
beset-with more signs of indigestion than afflict those who insist upon
broiling, roasting, or boiling. Some years ago one of our most eminent
physiologists investigated the digestibility of fried potatoes. He found that
the pan variety was more easily broken down for assimilation than when deep fat
was employed. The latter, however, dissolved within the alimentary tract more
readily than the boiled type. Furthermor
A. contrary to popular opinion, fried foods are more easily assimilated than boiled foods
B. fried foods are more easily digested than boiled foods though authorities believe the opposite to be true
C. the public should eat more fried foods since they are as easily digested as boiled foods
D. despite the traditional condemnation of fried foods, they are as easily digested as foods cooked in other ways
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