Passage OneQuestions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage.Immigration poses two main challenges for the rich world’s governments. One is how to manage the inflow (流入) of migrants; the other, how to integrate those who are already there.Whom, for example, to allow in? Already, many governments have realized that the market for top talent is global and competitive. Led by Canada and Australia, they are redesigning migration policies not just to admit, but actively to attract highly skilled immigrants. Germany, for instance, tentatively introduced a green card of its own two years ago for information-technology staff.Whereas the case for attracting the highly skilled is fast becoming conventional wisdom, a thornier issue is what to do about the unskilled. Because the difference in earnings is greatest in this sector, migration of the unskilled delivers the largest global economic gains. Moreover, wealthy, well-educated, ageing economies create lots of jobs for which their own workers have little appetite.So immigrants tend to cluster at the upper and lower ends of the skill spectrum. Immigrants either have university degrees or no high-school education. Mr. Smith’s survey makes the point: Among immigrants to America, the proportion with a postgraduate education, at 21%, is almost three times as high as in the native population; equally, the proportion with less than nine years of schooling, at 20%, is more than three times as high as that of the native-born.All this means that some immigrants do far better than others. The unskilled are the problem. Research by George Boras, a Harvard University professor whose parents were unskilled Cuban immigrants, has drawn attention to the fact that the unskilled account for a growing proportion of America’s foreign-born. Newcomers without high-school education not only drag down the wages of the poorest Americans; their children are also disproportionately likely to fail at school.These youngsters are there to stay. “The toothpaste is out of the tube,” says Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Centre for Immigration Studies. And their numbers will grow. Because the rich world’s women spurn motherhood, immigrants give birth to many of the rich world’s babies. Foreign mothers account for one birth in five in Switzerland and one in eight in Germany and Britain. If these children grow up underprivileged and undereducated, they will create a new underclass that may take many years to emerge from poverty.For Europe, immigration creates particular problems. Europe needs it even more than the United States because the continent is ageing faster than any other region. Immigration is not a permanent cure (immigrants grow old too), but it will buy time. And migration can “grease the wheels” of Europe’s sclerotic (硬化的) labor markets, argues Tito Boeri in a report published in July. However, thanks to the generosity of Europe’s welfare states, migration is also a sort of tax on immobile labor. And the more immobile Europeans are — the older, the less educated — the more xenophobic (恐惧外国人的) they are too.Q:It has become a generally accepted view that the rich governments should ________.
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- Asia has overtaken Europe and America to become the world’s biggest beer-drinking continent because Asians have been brewing beer for more than 7000 years .
- Immigration to the United States by people with shorter average height is no reason for the decline in the average height in America because______. A: Asians came to the United States only in recent years B: Asians are taller than immigrants from other areas C: the immigration by people with shorter average height is not large enough D: immigrants of other ethnicities usually have good access to medical care and nutrition
- "New immigration" was a term from the late 1880s that came from the influx of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and Russia (areas that previously sent few immigrants).
- People with college education () A: have less opportunity to control their lives B: have more opportunity to control their lives C: are not happier than those who have only an education at high school D: are much happier than those who did not graduate from high school
- The example of Ithaca high school is used to show ______. A: how important the school website is for parents to be involved in education B: that the school online can reassure the parents about what their children do C: how the parents of the students got to be part of a class trip to Europe D: it is more likely for parents to send teachers E-mails than to phone them