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【单选题】As Texas begins to recover from two weeks of devastating storms, a generally hidden truth about its economy will come to light again. Most of the builders and electricians who will have to repair the houses, remake the roads and re-establish the electrical power lines will have to take on undocumented workers in order to meet their contracts. In 1996 the Immigration and Naturalisation Service (INS) conservatively estimated that Texas had over 600,000 undocumented immigrants doing the jobs no one else wants: hauling carcasses in packing plants, picking fruit, cleaning hotel rooms, or sorting out the unspeakable damage caused by natural disasters.
Mention the issue of these workers to a Texan, and he is liable to fall uncharacteristically silent.Even state legislators avoid the issue. They know that many of their constituents employ undocumented workers. They also know that the booming Texas economy is driven in part by the ready supply of cheap, diligent, illegal labour.
Dallas is one magnet for undocumented workers. The city’s politicians oppose INS crackdowns fearing they will damage the local economy and bankrupt small companies. Houston is another. There a dawn drive past some of the city’s 36 informal day-labour sites shows the size of the undocumented workforce. Young Mexicans wait on the pavement, ready to jump into the back of any pick-up truck that slows down to take them. Houston police estimate that over 150,000 labourers, about 85% of them undocumented, gather every day in search of a joB、It is a testament to the vitality of the Texas economy that most of them get hired usually to mix cement and shift bricks. No questions are asked, no papers signeD、Most workers do not even know their employer’s name. They are paid in cash, around 40 dollars a day while the averageAmerican earns more than twice as much.
The illegal workers are ______.
A、hard-working but costly
B．lazy but cheap
C．hard-working and ambitious
D．hard-working and cheap

【单选题】To be a successful criminal, one must be ______.
A．empirical
B．emigrant
C．elegant
D．elusive

【单选题】 The survey showed that ______ numbers of 15-year-olds were already smoking twenty cigarettes a week.
A．essential
B．steady
C．primary
D．substantial

【单选题】 Some journalist had written a(n) ______ about him in which some of the facts were untrue.
A．outlook
B．profile
C．appearance
D．performance

【单选题】The two astronauts have splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, only five miles from the aircraft carrier that was______ for the recovery mission.
A、detach
B、dispatched
C、devote
D、dismantled

【单选题】 He failed to carry out some of the provisions of the contract, and now he has to ______ the consequences.
A．answer for
B．run into
C．abide by
D．step into

【单选题】The passage mentions all of the following as difficulties that self-employed women may encounterEXCEPT ______.
A．discrimination form consumers and suppliers
B．discrimination from financial institutions
C．problems in obtaining good employees
D．problems in obtaining government assistance

【单选题】The main idea of this passage is ______.
A．in modem society people are under great work pressure
B．nowadays people want to enjoy life more than do hard work
C．work should be to people more than just a means to survive
D．more jobs of delight should be created for people

【单选题】I'm very sorry to have ______ you with so many questions on such an occasion.
A．interfered
B．offended
C．impressed
D．bothered

【单选题】 Babies might mistrust the world if ______.
A．they did not receive food when they were hungry
B．they mastered their body movements too quickly
C．someone came too close to them
D．they saw an object disappear