题目内容
Complete the following passage by using the words in the box.Each word can only be used once.Note that there is one word more than you need.
Recently the Department of Planning of New York issued a report which laid bare a full scale of change of the city.In 1970, 18 percent of the city’s population was foreign-born.By 1995, the figure had 1 to 33 percent, and another 20 percent were the US-born children of immigrants.So immigrants and their children now form a(n) 2 of the city’s population.
Who are these New Yorkers? Why do they come here? Where are they from?(OK, time to drop the “they”.I’m one of them.)The last question at least is easy to answer:we come from everywhere.In the list of the top 20 3 nations of those sending immigrants to New York between 1990 and 1994 are six countries in Asia, five in the Caribbean, four in Latin America, three in Europe, plus Israel and the former Soviet Union.And when we immigrants got here we 4 up our sleeves.“If you’re not ready to work when you get to New York,” says a friend of mine, “you’d better hit the road.”
The mayor of New York once said, “Immigration has 5 the unique character and driven the economic engine of New York City, and will continue like that.” He believes that immigrants are at the 6 of what makes New York great.In Europe, by contrast, it is much more common to hear politicians worry about the loss of “unity” that immigration brings to their societies.In the quarter century since 1970, the United States 7 about 12.5 million legal immigrants, and has absorbed them into its social structures with an ease beyond the imagination of other nations.Since these immigrants are 8 and hard working, they will help America to make a(n) 9 start in the next century.
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Consult the page adapted from an English dictionary and do Questions 65~68.
【小题1】 What does the phrase “green shoots” mean in “Green shoots have begun to appear in different markets”?
A.Signs of recovery. | B.High prices. |
C.Environmental protection. | D.Change in policy. |
A.shot out | B.shot through | C.shot up | D.shot down |
A.shooting yourself in the foot | B.shooting the breeze |
C.shooting your mouth off | D.shooting questions at somebody |
A.shooter | B.shoot | C.shot | D.shooting |