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Immigration poses two main challenges for the rich worlds 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. Smiths 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 Americas 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 worlds women spurn motherhood, immigrants give birth to many of the rich worlds 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 aging 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 Europes sclerotic(硬化的)labor markets, argues Tito Boeri in a report published in July. However, thanks to the generosity of Europes 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.<br>It has become a generally accepted view that the rich countries should______.

A. refuse to admit unskilled immigrants
B. introduce green cards of their own countries"
C. create more jobs for the unskilled immigrants
D. try to admit and attract highly-skilled immigrants

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rather crawl it little before although something form. make outcut away seem as away best come up Having passed what I considered the worst obstacle, our spirits rose. We made our way towards the left cliff, where the going was better, though【R1】______steeper. Here we found【R2】______snow, as most of【R3】______seemed to have been blown off the mountain. There was no vision of the mountains in the distance, the clouds were【R4】______forming all round us. About one oclock a storm【R5】______suddenly. We should have noticed its coming but we were concentrating on cutting steps and【R6】______we had time to do anything, we were unsighted by snow. We could not move up or down and had to wait motionless, getting colder and colder. 【R7】______my hood, my nose and cheeks were frostbitten, I dare not take a hand out of my glove to warm them. After two hours of this, I realized we would have to do【R8】______to avoid being frozen to death where we stood. From time to time through the mist I had【R9】______the outline of a buttress(扶垛)just above us, to descend in this wind was out of the question. Our only hope was to climb up to the buttress, and dig out a platform. at the foot of it on which we could pitch our tent. We climbed to this place and started to【R10】______the ice. At first my companion【R11】______to regard this situation【R12】______hopeless but gradually the wind died【R13】______and he clean up. At last we made a platform. big enough to pitch the tent, and we did this as【R14】______as we could. We【R15】______into our sleeping bags and fell asleep, feeling that we were lucky to be still alive.<br>【R1】


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Scientists now tend to agree that the noise level for potential hearing loss begins at about 70 decibels. Some of them are very concerned because normal daily life often exposes people to noise levels of about 70 decibels even inside their homes. Cities have always been noisy, but noise is now spreading to areas that were quiet just a few years ago. Clearly, something must be done or noise will seriously and permanently maim the population. Fortunately, the knowledge and methods to control noise already exist. As a matter of fact, this is one instance where the knowledge of control methods exceeds the knowledge about the effects on human life and on the environment. There are two common means for control. The first is reducing noise at its source, and the second is changing the sound path by distance or by shielding. The second approach is being used more often today as people become more aware of the danger of noise. New building codes require better sound insulation in homes and apartments. More and more towns are passing zoning ordinances that try to segregate noisy factories or airports from residential areas. Sound-absorbent materials and construction designed to block sound paths are slowly coming into use in offices and homes. New highways are being built to redirect traffic noise up and away from nearby areas. Aircraft are increasingly being required to use reduced-power flights around airports. There are many examples of available noise control methods that are not being used. More flexible building codes would permits the use of quieter kinds of plumbing pipes. Sound-absorbent materials can reduce the noise of motors and engines. Power generators can be quieted with baffles, exhaust silencers, and sound absorbers. Truck tires can be made with quieter treads. In many cases, the most of building quieter machines is the same or only slightly higher than that of the current noisy ones. Even though the new jumbo jets, for example, are quieter than the older ones, yet they are more powerful and carry twice as many passengers. All of these methods are only partial measures as noisy levels continue to rise. Most specialists in the field agree that much of the solution must come from eliminating some of the noise at its source, therefore saving through prevention the large costs of hearing loss.<br>The noise level for possible hearing loss begins at about______.

A. 30 decibels
B. 70 decibels
C. 100 decibels
D. none of the above

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