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考研英语历年阅读理解真题精析
Part One
In spite of “endless talk of difference,” American society is an
amazing machine for homogenizing people. This is “the democratizing
uniformity of dress and discourse, and the casualness and absence of
consumption “launched by the 19th –century department stores that
offered ‘vast arrays of goods in an elegant atmosphere. Instead of
intimate shops catering to a knowledgeable elite.” these were stores
“anyone could enter, regardless of class or background. This turned
shopping into a public and democratic act.” The mass media, advertising
and sports are other forces for homogenization.
Immigrants are quickly fitting into this common culture, which may
not be altogether elevating but is hardly poisonous. Writing for the
National Immigration Forum, Gregory Rodriguez reports that today’s
immigration is neither at unprecedented level nor resistant to
assimilation. In 1998 immigrants were 9.8 percent of population; in 1900,
13.6 percent. In the 10 years prior to 1990, 3.1 immigrants arrived for
every 1,000 residents; in the 10 years prior to 1890, 9.2 for every 1,000.
Now, consider three indices of assimilationlanguage, home
ownership and intermarriage.
The 1990 Census revealed that “a majority of immigrants from each
of the fifteen most common countries of origin spoke English “well”or
“verywell” after ten years of residence.” The children of immigrants
tend to be bilingual and proficient in English. “Bythe third generation,
the original language is lost in the majority of immigrant families.”
Hence the description of America as a graveyard” for language. By 1996
foreign-born immigrants who had arrive before 1970 had a home ownership
rate of 75.6 percent, higher than the 69.8 percent rate among native-born
Americans.
Foreign-born Asians and Hispanics “have higher rates of
intermarriage than do U.S-born whites and blacks.” By the third
generation, one third of Hispanic women are married to non-H
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