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.
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主旨题【命题思路】本题主要考查考生对文章结构，乃至文章内容的理解掌握情况。考生在处理类似题型时，应切记主旨题的正确选项应与文章论述的主题和关键词符合。【直击答案】通读全文后发现legal和illegal为高频词汇。第二段第二句We divide newcomers into two categories:legal or illegal,good or bad，同时作者认为We need to look beyond strict definitions of legal and illegal这说明了从合法和不合法角度对于移民的分类是错误的。最后一段最后一句再次重申including some that are not easy to accomplish legally in the existing system。综上可知D项为正确答案。【排除干扰】A项Come and go:big mistake是说短暂移民者的移动是个错误，偏离了文章主旨。B和C项说的是risk（风险），文中并未提及风险，因而错误。
