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1、L1 1.They tend to acknowledge the more recent immigrants only in retrospect. The immigrants have to wait until they have proved themselves by working, raising a respectable family, achieving citizenship, and maybe even winning a Nobel Prize. 2.The present wave of Hispanic immigration and European wa
2、ves are similar in roots. But there are two important differences: the European waves were legal whereas the current wave is illegal. The numbers are also different. The current wave is much larger in scale. 3.The evidence shows that the new immigrants behave in positive ways similar to their predec
3、essors. They are family oriented, they value education, and their children are learning English. Overtime, they are intermarrying among growing numbers of other ethnic groups. They are people of faith. They are energetic, looking to move up in life through better jobsthey work hard and for long hour
4、s.4.They often take jobs many Americans simply no longer wish to do. By and large the most recent surge of immigrants is made up of people who are young and mobile, and who work in the least desired sectors of the U.S. economy such as agriculture and service industries for relatively low pay. Today,
5、 only about 10 percent of white males leave high school, and high school graduates wont take the menial jobs that many immigrants are happy to take on. So for the most part, the new immigrants and native Americans are not competing for the same jobs. Even when they do compete more directly with low-
6、skilled U.S.-born workers, the job preference is different. Immigrants find work in agriculture, while less educated natives often end up in manufacturing. 5.Immigrants at both the low end and the high end of the skill sets are needed. More immigrants are needed because the retirement of the 80 mill
7、ion baby boomers will increase the burden of supporting the non-working seniors and more immigrants will help reduce the burden. 6.Family reunification should be supported to the extent of holding the nuclear family together. Keeping spouses and children together makes humanitarian sense. However, t
8、he chain immigration of extended family relatives should be controlled. The random“visa lottery”program should be eliminated.7.No, it does not mean an amnesty for them. It spells out a long route to legality and citizenship. Illegal immigrants could apply for a green card only after the 4 million fa
9、milies who are now in line for immigration visas have been cleared through the system; the process would take an estimated 8 years. So they would not have an advantage over those who have played by the rules. They would also have to pay fines and demonstrate that they have clean records. In a sense,
10、 they would be allowed to earn citizenship over time. 8.The bill wins conservative support for the position by calling for substantially stepped-up security to be in place before more immigrants are admitted. 9.The Republicans are willing to provide illegal immigrants the path to citizenship in retu
11、rn for getting a more secure border and eliminating the much-abused extended chain of family relatives.L5 1.She talked about a lecture he had attended. The thesis was that the human body has changed irrevocably over the last quarter of a century and that the physical environment will gradually adapt
12、 to accommodate the new shape.2.According to Greg Critser, the reason for Americansoverweight was that the population was growing more slowly than the food supply and as a result fast food, invented as an affordable way of getting families to eat together, became a means of selling surplus fat and s
13、ugar to the masses. 3.David Blaines starvation stunt was a spectacle to the British. Families turned out en masse at weekends to see how his hunger strike was going. Some normal-size people turned up to mock, throwing eggs, cooking food and even trying to cut off the water supply to the hungry Ameri
14、can. The reason for such behavior is that the notion of somebody giving up food for 44 days is unthinkable for the British and there are so few starving Americans in the world, which makes his self-imposed ordeal appear ludicrously self-indulgent. Whats more, the stunt highlighted the disordered rel
15、ation to eating which has become habitual in the western society. 4.The impact of fast food on Mexicans is obvious. Obesity has increased by 158 per cent in Mexico in a decade, since fast food outlets began to replace the traditional diet.5.As fast food developed, cooking has become a spectator spor
16、t, something to watch famous people do on telly, as the populations of affluent countries rely increasingly on supermarket meals and takeaways. 6.People in western societies, in order to slim down are endlessly trying Atkins and other fashionable diets such as the cabbage soup diet or modified Atkins. 7.The traditional working class diet was plain food while present-day working class diet is superficially much more cosmopolitancurries, pizzas, the ubiquitous