问题 单项选择题

When Ted Kennedy gazes from the windows of his office in Boston, he can see the harbor’s "Golden Stairs", where all eight of his great-grandparents first set foot in America. It reminds him, he told his Senate colleagues this week, that reforming America’s immigration laws is an "awesome responsibility". Mr. Kennedy is the Democrat most prominently pushing a bipartisan bill to secure the border, ease the national skills shortage and offer a path to citizenship for the estimated 12m illegal aliens already in the country. He has a steep climb ahead of him.

As drafted, the bill seeks to mend America’s broken immigration system in several ways. First, and before its other main provisions come into effect, it would tighten border security. It provides for 200 miles (320km) of vehicle barriers, 370 miles of fencing and 18000 new border patrol agents. It calls for an electronic identification system to ensure employers verify that all their employees are legally allowed to work. And it stiffens punishments for those who knowingly hire illegals.

As soon as the bill was unveiled, it was stoned from all sides. Christans, mostly Republicans, denounced it as an "amnesty" that would encourage further waves of illegal immigration. Tom Tancredo, a Republican congressman running for president (without hope of success ) on an anti-illegal-immigration platform, demanded that all but the border-security clauses be scrapped. Even these he derided as "so limited it’s almost a joke". Conservative talk-radio echoed his call. No one is seriously proposing mass deportation, but Mr. Tancredo says the illegals will all go home if the laws against hiring them are vigorously enforced.

Most labor unions are skeptical, too. The AFL-CIO denounced the guest-worker program, which it said would give employers "a ready pool of labor that they can exploit to drive down wages, benefits, health and safety protections" for everyone else. Two Democratic senators tried to gut the program. One failed to abolish it entirely; another succeeded in slashing it from 400000 to 200000 people a year.

Employers like the idea of more legal migrants but worry that the new system will be cumbersome. Many object to the idea that they will have to check the immigration status of all their employees. The proposed federal computer system to sort legal from illegal workers is bound to make mistakes. Even if only one employee in a hundred is falsely labelled illegal, that will cause a lot of headaches. And the points system has drawbacks, too. Employers are better placed than bureaucrats to judge which skills are in short supply. That is why the current mess has advantages—illegal immigrants nearly always go where their labor is in demand.

Other groups have complaints, too. Immigrant-rights groups say that the path to citizenship would be too long and arduous and too few Hispanics would qualify. Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic speaker of the House, fretted that the new stress on skills would hurt families, adding that her party is "about families and family values". Some people worry that House Democrats will kill it to prevent Mr. Bush from enjoying a domestic success.

Despite the indignation, public opinion favors the underlying principles. At least 60% of Americans want to give illegals a chance to become citizens if they work hard and behave.

The word "stoned" (line 1, paragraph3 ) most probably means()

A. stiffened

B. constructed

C. criticized

D. supported

答案

参考答案:C

解析:

[解题思路] 含义题。第三段首句说“该法案刚刚亮相,就受到了来自各方的______”,因此,推测该词的词义要从下面的论据中寻找。下面各方所用的动词分别为:denounce 谴责;deride嘲讽。由此可以判定,stone在这里是“批评”的意思。

选择题
材料分析题

材料一:中国加入世界贸易组织10周年高层论坛11日上午在人民大会堂举行。国家 * * 胡 * * 出席并发表重要讲话。胡 * * 强调,面对新形势新要求,中国将坚持以更广阔的视野观察世界、观察中国,根据推动科学发展的要求,实行更加积极主动的开放战略,拓展新的开放领域和空间,完善更加适应发展开放型经济要求的体制机制,提高开放型经济水平和质量,形成开放型经济新格局,更好地以开放促发展、促改革、促创新。

材料二:加入世贸组织十年,中国在世界贸易中的比重从4.3%提高到10.4%,成为世界第一大出口国、第二大进口国,其中货物进口年均增长22%,规模增长了4.9倍。进口年均增长了21%,规模增长了4.7倍。加入世界贸易组织十年的进出口增速是我们国家建国以来,特别是改革开放以来最快的,也是同期世界上最快的。

(1)结合材料运用经济生活知识分析,为什么中国加入世贸组织的战略决策是完全正确的?

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(2)中国和世界获得了双赢是可喜的。谈谈随着世界经济不确定性的增加,中国今后应如何继续全面提高对外开放的水平?

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