A century ago, the immigrants from across the Atlantic inclued settlers and sojourners. Along with the many folks looking to make a permanent home in the United States came those who had no intention to stay, and 7millin people arrived while about 2 million departed. About a quarter of all Italian immigrants, for exanmle, eventually returned to Italy for good. They even had an affectionate nickname, “uccelli di passaggio,” birds of passage.

　　Today, we are much more rigid about immigrants. We divide nemcomers into two categories: legal or illegal, good or bad. We hail them as Americans in the making, or our broken immigrantion system and the long political 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 health-care 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 come 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 committing 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.

　　Accommodating 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 outcomes. Including some that are not easy to accomplish 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 legal tolerance.

　　[D] as mighty rivals.

　　30 which of the best title for the passage?

　　[A] come and go: big mistake.

　　[B] living and thriving : great risk.

　　[C] with or without : great risk.

　　[D] legal or illegal: big mistake.

　　【答案详解】

　　26.【答案】C (stay in a foreign temporarily)

　　【解析】词汇题。根据题干关键词定位，定位到第一段最后一句。在這句中，They even had an affectionate nickname, “uccelli di passaggio,” birds of passage.，they 这个代词承前指代，指四分之一的意大利移民。有些人要再美国定居(permanent home)，但是一些人只是在美国暂时居住,要回国(had no intention to stay).一定要注意理解这个倒装结构:Along with …. came those who……,那些没有要回国的是我们要强调的。通过这句我们能选择出C选项。这A项只是说一世纪前的横跨大西洋的移民们，没有说birds of passage来自于哪里。B项虽然有for good 但是与原文意思相反。原文是移民们会永远的回到意大利，而不是选项当中的离开自己的祖国。D项文中首段并未提及。

　　27.【答案】C (should be adopted to meet challenges)

　　【解析】推理题。题干要求在第二段。原文“We don’t need more categories”可以排除A选项。文章“Today, we are much more rigid about immigrants.”我们目前有更加严格的对待移民以及“ We need to look beyond strict definitions of legal and illegal.”我们需要超越这种合法和不合法的严格定义。就知道目前是很严格的。我们还没有选项中的“has loosened control over immigrants.”对移民的放松控制。B 项排除。文章也并没有说这个制度被政治方式所修复。政治确实出现在文章中，但是只是说“the long political paralysis”长期的政治麻痹与原文不符。故排除。“To start …We might then begin to solve our immigration challenges.”首先承认这些短暂移民的存在，然后解决移民的挑战。是C选项的同义替换。

　　28.【答案】D (the freedom to stay and leave)

　　【解析】细节题。根据关键词定位，可定位到第三段。 “They prefer to come and go as opportunity calls them .They can manage to have a job in one place and a family in another.”他们喜欢随着机会的来临，来去都自如。他们可以在一地工作，也可以再另外的地方成家。强调的是机会和来去自如。D项是这句的同义替换。A项是对原文的片面理解。“They are energetic participants in a global economy driven by the flow of work, money and ideas”不仅仅是来自金钱的刺激(financial incentives)，还有有工作和各种理念。B在文中未提及。文中只是说道“global economy” ，没有提“global recognition”，C项中的regular jobs(一般工作)在文中未提及，也是对文意的曲解。

　　29.【答案】C (with legal tolerance)

　　【解析】推理题。根据题干，可定位到第五段。题干问到“根据作者，这些短暂移民者应该以何种方式被对待” “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 outcomes. Including some that are not easy to accomplish legally in the existing system”意思是 “我们应该超越移民合法性方面的文化之争，重现看待中间地带，充分意识到当今的移民管理体系需要各种途径，从而取得多样化的结果，来解决现今移民体系下用法律手段很难解决的问题”暗含了C项中tolerance也就是对“multiple paths and multiple outcomes”的改写。A、B和D项在文中未提及。

　　30.【答案】D (legal or illegal: big mistake)

　　【解析】主旨大意题。文章第二段第二句中提到“We divide newcomers into two categories: legal or illegal” “我们把新移民分为2类：合法和不合法移民.” 同时作者认为“We need to look beyond strick definitions of legal and illegal，” “我们不需要合法和不合法移民这样严格的定义”这说明这种分类是错误的。另外，文章最后一段最后一句“Including some that are not easy to accomplish legally in the existing system.”“包括在现行移民体系中不容易合法的实现一些事情”也反映了文章的中心。也就是说合法和不合法的分类是错误的。故选D。 A项说短暂移民们的移动是个错误。没有体现文章主旨。B和C项都说是risk(风险)跟文章无关。