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[考研类试卷]考研英语（阅读）模拟试卷63 Part A Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. (40 points) 0 Immigration is in the headlines again, with President Obamas decision last week to stop deporting young illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children, and the Supreme Courts approaching decision on the constitutionality of Arizonas crackdown on undocumented migrants. But too much of the public debate has focused on the legality of immigration without considering a more fundamental question; What effects has mass immigration had on American society? For the May issue of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, some of the most careful research was commissioned done about the effects of immigration on a cross section of A-merican communities — urban, suburban and rural. The scholars who participated were in remarkable a-greement: while new immigrants are poorer than the general population and face considerable hardship, there is no evidence that they have reshaped the social fabric in harmful ways. America is neither less safe because of immigration nor is it worse off economically. In fact, in the regions where immigrants have settled in the past two decades, crime has gone down, cities have grown, poor urban neighborhoods have been rebuilt, and small towns that were once on life support are springing back. Scholars cant say for sure that immigration caused these positive developments, but we know e-nough to reject the notion that immigrants worsen social ills. Scholars found that immigrant youths in Los Angeles were involved in less crime and violence than their native-born peers in similar economic circumstances. Research also has shown that an increase in immigration in cities like San Antonio and Miami did not produce an increase in the homicide rate. Furthermore, social scientists found that people in immigrant commun