【正文】 al 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 strick 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 healthcare 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 e 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 mitting 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. Acmodating 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 outes. Including some that are not easy to acplish legally in the existing system. 26 “ Birds of passage” refers to those who____ [A] immigrate across the Atlantic. [B] leave their home countries for good. [C] stay in a foregin temporaily. [D] find permanent jobs overseas. 27 It is implied in paragraph 2 that the current immigration stystem in the US____ [A] needs new immigrant categories. [B] has loosened control over immigrants. [C] should be adopted to meet challenges. [D] has been fixeed via political means. 28 According to the author, today’ s birds of passage want___ [A] fiancial incentives. [B] a global recognition. [C] opportunities to get regular jobs. [D] the freedom to stay and leave. 29 The author suggests that the birds of passage today should be treated __ [A] as faithful partners. [B] with economic favors. [C] with regal tolerance. [D] as mighty rivals. 30 選出最適合文章的標(biāo)題 [A] e and go: big mistake. [B] living and thriving : great risk. [C] with or without : great risk. [D] legal or illegal: big mistake. Text 3 Scientists have found that although we are prone to snap overreactions, if we take a moment and think about how we are likely to react, we can reduce or even eliminate the negative effects of our quick, hardwired responses. Snap decisions can be important defense mechanisms。 if we are judging whether someone is dangerous, our brains and bodies are hardwired to react very quickly, within milliseconds. But we need more time to assess other factors. To accurately tell whether someone is sociable, studies show, we need at least a minute, preferably five. It takes a while to judge plex aspects of personality, like neuroticism or openmindedness. But snap decisions in reaction to rapid stimuli aren’ t exclusive to the interpersonal realm. Psychologists at the University of Toronto found that viewing a fastfood logo for just a few milliseconds primes us to read 20 percent faster, even though reading has little to do with eating. We unconsciously associate fast food with speed and impatience and carry those impulses into whatever else we’ re doing, Subjects exposed to fastfood flashes also tend to think a musical piece lasts too long. Yet we can reverse such influences. If we know we will overreact to consumer products or housing options when we see a happy face (one reason good sales representatives and real estate agents are always smiling), we can take a moment before buying. If we know female job screeners are more likely to reject attractive female applicants, we can help screeners understand their biasesor hire outside screeners. John Gottman, the marriage expert, explains that we quickly “ thin slice” information reliably only after we ground such snap reactions in “ thick sliced” longterm study. When Dr. Gottman really wants to assess whether a couple will stay together, he invites them to his island retreat for a muck longer evaluation。s feeling positive, but he39。 anonymity e in handy. With them, there39。t be eating out a lot, but save your pennies and once every few months treat yourself to a set lunch at a good restaurant ? a week for three months gives you ?21 more than enough for a threecourse lunch at Michelinstarred Arbutus. It39。 A、 B 兩個選項與第三段的倒數(shù)第二句話意思不符，是干擾選項。 25.【答案】 C 【解析】該題是主旨大意題，主要考查考生根據(jù)文章內(nèi)容凝練主旨大意的能力。在這句中， birds of passage 是前面一句中的 1/4 的意大利移民的昵稱，他們只在美國居住了一段時間，但最終還 是返回意大利。 A 項與原文意思不符。 A 項是對原文的片面理解，吸引短暫移民者的不僅僅是來自金錢的激勵（ financial incentives），還有工作機會和工作理念。文章第二段第二句中提到 “我們把新移民分成兩類：合法移民和不合法移民 ”，同時作者認為 “我們不需要局限于合法與不合法 這樣嚴格的定義 ”，這說明了從合法和不合法角度對于移民的分類是錯誤的。文章第一段提到 “如果我們在做出反應(yīng)之前花點兒時間來思考，那么將會減少甚至消除我們快速反應(yīng)所帶來的負面影響 ”，也就是說我們做決定所花的時間決定了我們判斷的準確性。第二段說處理人際關(guān)系問題時人們會倉促決定，第三段開頭就說了，讓人做出 倉促決定的刺激因素不僅限于人際關(guān)系范圍內(nèi)。先看題干 說 “為了逆轉(zhuǎn)倉促決定所帶來的影響，我們可以做 _____”， 根據(jù)題干定位到第四段。由此可判斷出 [D] adequate information（足夠的信息）是本題正解。因此 [C] optimistic（樂觀的）是正解。 37．【答案】 A a reflection of gender balance 【解析】根據(jù)題干，定位到第二段首句， intended legislation 是對 is now considering legislation 的同義改寫。 C 和D 選項屬于無中生有。 Reding 的 appeal 最早出現(xiàn)在第 2 段，即呼吁在董事會中有 40%的女性，以實現(xiàn)性別均衡。 B 選項的 reluctant是對第 5 段的 Reding’s reluctance 出的干擾項，并不是說 European Union 的立法。 Text 4 36．【答案】 B men have the final say 【解析】根據(jù)題干 corporate workplace 定位到第一段。第二句是對第一句的舉例說明，更加驗證此選項。其他選項：A 項 “相信我們的第一印象 ”； B 項 “按照人們通常所做的去做 ”； D 項 “征求專家意見 ”均不符合題意。下一句闡述了原因：因為人們無意識地（ unconsciously）將 “快餐 ”與 “速度 ”和 “心急 ”聯(lián)系在一起，并將這些沖動付諸行動。第二句以 But 這一轉(zhuǎn)折連詞引導(dǎo)，應(yīng)該重點關(guān)注其后表達的信息，“但是，我們需要更多的時間來評估其他要素。即，從合法和不合法角度對于移民