Text 2 A century ago,the immigrants from across the Atlantic included 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 7million people arrived while about 2 million departed.About a quarter of all Italian immigrants,for example,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 newcomers into two categories:legal or illegal,good or bad.We hail them as Americans in the making,or brand them as aliens to be kicked out.That framework has contributed mightily to our broken immigration 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 strict 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 healthcare 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 require new attitudes on both sides of the immigration battle.Looking beyond the culture war logic of right or wrong means opening up the middle ground and understanding that managing immigration today requires multiple paths and multiple outcomes,including some that are not easy to accomplish legally in the existing system.
According to the author,today's birds of passage want____
细节题【命题思路】细节题的解答要求考生准确回文定位，并且逐一对应判断出答案。需要注意的是细节题的正确选项很少是原文信息的复现，而是概括性总结或者前后几句话的概括。错误选项则往往是原文信息的过度推理和断章取义的理解或者是无中生有。【直击答案】根据题干定位至第三段。题干的want与原文的prefer to是同义词，因而解题关键在于对最后两句话的理解。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.强调的是工作机会。故D项为正确答案。【排除干扰】A项是对原文的片面理解，通过第三段第二句They are energetic participants in a global economy driven by the flow of work,money and ideas判断出吸引移民者的不仅仅是来自金钱的激励（money），还有工作机会和工作理念（work and ideas），A项financial incentives（经济鼓励）仅仅是money，因而错误。B项选和C项在文中未提及也不选。
