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Passage Two
Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.
In a country that defines itself by ideals, not by shared blood, who should be allowed to come work and live here? In the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks these questions have never seemed more pressing.
On Dec. 11, 2001, as part of the effort to increase homeland security, federal and local authorities in 14 states staged “Operation Safe Travel”—raids on airports to arrest employees with false identification (身份證明). In Salt Lake City there were 69 arrests. But those captured were anything but terrorists, most of them illegal immigrants from Central or South America. Authorities said the undocumented workers’ illegal status made them open to blackmail (訛詐) by terrorists.
Many immigrants in Salt Lake City were angered by the arrests and said they felt as if they were being treated like disposable goods.
Mayor Anderson said those feelings were justified to a certain extent. “We’re saying we want you to work in these places, we’re going to look the other way in terms of what our laws are, and then when it’s convenient for us, or when we can try to make a point in terms of national security, especially after Sept. 11, then you’re disposable. There are whole families being uprooted for all of the wrong reasons,” Anderson said.
If Sept. 11 had never happened, the airport workers would not have been arrested and could have gone on quietly living in America, probably indefinitely. Ana Castro, a manager at a Ben & Jerry’s ice cream shop at the airport had been working 10 years with the same false Social Security card when she was arrested in the December airport raid. Now she and her family are living under the threat of deportation (驅(qū)逐出境). Castro’s case is currently waiting to be settled. While she awaits the outcome, the government has granted her permission to work here and she has returned to her job at Ben & Jerry’s.
62. According to the author, the United States claims to be a nation ________.
A) composed of people having different values
B) encouraging individual pursuits
C) sharing common interests
D) founded on shared ideals(D)
63. How did the immigrants in Salt Lake City feel about “Operation Safe Travel”?
A) Guilty.
B) Offended.
C) Disappointed.
D) Discouraged.(B)
64. Undocumented workers became the target of “Operation Safe Travel” because ________.
A) evidence was found that they were potential terrorists
B) most of them worked at airports under threat of terrorists
C) terrorists might take advantage of their illegal status
D) they were reportedly helping hide terrorists around the airport(C)
65. By saying “... we’re going to look the other way in terms of what our laws are” (Line 2, Para. 4), Mayor Anderson means “________”.
A) we will turn a blind eye to your illegal status
B) we will examine the laws in a different way
C) there are other ways of enforcing the law
D) the existing laws must not be ignored(C)
66. What do we learn about Ana Castro from the last paragraph?
A) She will be deported sooner or later.
B) She is allowed to stay permanently.
C) Her case has been dropped.
D) Her fate remains uncertain.(D)
這是一篇時(shí)事報(bào)道性文章，講述在美國(guó)911恐怖襲擊發(fā)生之后政府對(duì)工作在機(jī)場(chǎng)而無(wú)有效身份證明的人進(jìn)行突擊逮捕，以及此事對(duì)被逮捕人的影響。作者以探討的筆調(diào)行文，開(kāi)頭提出問(wèn)題，全篇敘述事實(shí)，對(duì)開(kāi)頭的問(wèn)題進(jìn)行解釋。文章呈現(xiàn)問(wèn)題后沒(méi)有提出解決方案，這與其時(shí)事性有關(guān)，根據(jù)文意，此事的發(fā)展尚待明朗，作者也很難做出深入的評(píng)判。值得稱(chēng)道的是，這篇文章在寫(xiě)法上另辟蹊徑，把文中所述事件上升為一種美國(guó)理想與權(quán)利問(wèn)題，并在開(kāi)頭就提出，既吸引讀者眼球，又能激起民眾的響應(yīng)情緒，效果好于平鋪直敘式的報(bào)道。
全文一共5段，開(kāi)頭沒(méi)有直接敘述事件本身，而是提出與該事件相關(guān)的論題：In a country that defines itself by ideals, not by shared blood, who should be allowed to come work and live here?并指出911后該問(wèn)題變得更為迫切，以此提起讀者對(duì)為何如此的探詢(xún)，有設(shè)置懸念的作用。
文章后四部分解決了這個(gè)懸念，第二段敘述了美國(guó)911恐怖襲擊發(fā)生之后政府對(duì)工作在機(jī)場(chǎng)而無(wú)有效身份證明的人進(jìn)行突擊逮捕的經(jīng)過(guò)，并引述了官方如此做法的原因(open to blackmail by terrorists，這些人易受恐怖分子脅迫)。
第三段簡(jiǎn)明交代了被逮捕人的反應(yīng)：angerd(憤怒)，being treated like disposable goods(受到貨物一樣的對(duì)待)。接下來(lái)的第四段引用Anderson的話支持了被逮捕者的這種感受。最后一段用Ana Castro的例子說(shuō)明被逮捕者的窘迫境遇，透露出此事發(fā)展尚待繼續(xù)的信息(吸引讀者繼續(xù)關(guān)注)。
vt. 逮捕，拘留
n. 逮捕，拘留
