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.
It is implied in paragraph 2 that the current immigration system in the US_____
推理题【命题思路】推理题考查的不仅是对文章信息的理解，更考查了对全文主题的了解。因此需要准确定位，并根据段落中心甚至全文中心来最终得出答案。【直击答案】根据题干定位到第二段。由最后一句话We might then begin to solve our immigration challenges（然后也许我们就能开始面对移民挑战了）可以判断出，本段第四句至第六句的we need to…和we can….是我们可以面对这个挑战的前提，即我们应该如何去迎接这些挑战。故C项为正确答案。【排除干扰】A、B、D三个选项都错在混淆原文信息，虽然句式或者信息与原文中很相似或者重合，但是选项中却改写了其中的某些成分。A项“need categories”与第二段第四句We don't need more categories表达意思相反。B项“loosen control”与本段第五句We need to look beyond strict definitions of legal and illegal的strict（严格的）相反。D项“political means”（政治手段），与原文中第五句话We need to look beyond strict definitions of legal and illegal不一致。
