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1、 2022年公共英语等级考试四级模拟冲刺题及答案Passage Two Hawaii”s native minority is demanding a greater degree of sovereignty over its own affairs. But much of the archipelago”s political establishment, which includes the White Americans who dominated until the second world war and people of Japanese, Chinese and Filip
2、ino origins, is opposed to the idea. The islands were annexed by the US in 1898 and since then Hawaii”s native peoples have fared worse than any of its other ethnic groups. They make up over 60 percent of the state”s homeless, suffer higher levels of unemployment and their life span is five years le
3、ss than the average Hawaiians. They are the only major US native group without some degree of autonomy. But a sovereignty advisory committee set up by Hawaii”s first native governor, Joahn Waihee, has given the natives” cause a major boost by recommending that the Hawaiian natives decide by themselv
4、es whether to reestablish a sovereign Hawaiian nation. However, the Hawaiian natives are not united in their demands. Some just want greater autonomy within the state - as enjoyed by many American Indian natives over matters such as education. This is a position supported by the Office of Hawaiian A
5、ffairs (OHA), a state agency set up in 1978 to represent the natives” interests and which has now become the moderate face of the native sovereignty movement. More ambitious is the Ka Lahui group, which declared itself a new nation in 1987 and wants full, official independence from the US. But if Ha
6、waiian natives are given greater autonomy, it is far from clear how many people this will apply to. The state authorities only count as native those people with more than 50 percent Hawaiian blood. Native demands are not just based on political grievances, though. They also want their claim on 660,0
7、00 hectares of Hawaiian crown land to be accepted. It is on this issue that native groups are facing most opposition from the state authorities. In 1933, the state government paid the OHA US 136 million in back rent on the crown land and many officials say that by accepting this payment the agency h
8、as given up its claims to legally own the land. The OHA has vigorously disputed this. 1. Hawaii”s native minority refers to _. A. Hawaii”s ethnic groups B. people of Filipino origin C. the Ka Lahui group D. people with more than 50% Hawaiian blood 2. Which of the following statements is true of the
9、Hawaiian natives? A. Sixty percent of them are homeless or unemployed. B. their life span is 5 years shorter than average Americans. C. Their life is worse than that of other ethnic groups in Hawaii. D. They are the only native group without sovereignty. 3. Which of the following is NOT true of John
10、 Waihee? A. He is Hawaii”s first native governor. B. He has set up a sovereignty advisory committee. C. He suggested the native people decide for themselves. D. He is leading the local independence movement. 4. Which of the following groups holds a less radical attitude on the matter of sovereignty?
11、 A. American Indian natives. B. Office of Hawaiian Affairs. C. The Ka Lahui group. D. The Hawaiian natives. 5. Various native Hawaiians demand all the following EXCEPT _. A. a greater autonomy within the state B. more back rent on the crown land C. a claim on the Hawaiian crown land D. full independ
12、ence from the US Passage Three The percentage of immigrants (including those unlawfully present) in the United states has been creeping upward for years. At 12.6 percent, it is now higher than at any point since the mid1920s. We are not about to go back to the days when Congress openly worried about
13、 inferior races polluting Americas bloodstream. But once again we are wondering whether we have too many of the wrong sort newcomers. Their loudest critics argue that the new wave of immigrants cannot, and indeed do not want to, fit in as previous generations did. We now know that these racist views
14、 were wrong. In time, Italians, Romanians and members of other so-called inferior races became exemplary Americans and contributed greatly, in ways too numerous to detail, to the building of this magnificent nation. There is no reason why these new immigrants should not have the same success. Althou
15、gh children of Mexican immigrants do better, in terms of educational and professional attainment, than their parents UCLA sociologist Edward Telles has found that the gains dont continue. Indeed, the fouth generation is marginally worse off than the third James Jackson, of the University of Michigan, has found a similar trend among black Caribbean immigrants, Tells fears that Mexican-Americans may be fated to follow in the footsteps of American blacks-that large parts of the community
