2013年MBA英语真题与答案解析.docxVIP

选项分析： 文章第一段通过一个笑话指出现代化社会技术的进步程度， 使得劳动力大大 减少。 其余各段进一步论证了失业率的增加， 因此一个追求平庸的时代已经结束了， 人们需 要提高自身教育水平， 才能够保证不被淘汰。 最后一段第一句话再次强调说平庸时代已经正 式结束了。因此选项 C 为最恰当的标题。 A 项―新的法律要实施 ‖仅在最后一段提到一句，不 能涵盖文章主旨。 B 项―科技走向廉价 ‖不符合文意。 D 项 ―经济衰退有害 ‖与文章无关。 Text 2 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 re