口译笔译考试

【单选题】Questions 16-20
ChineseAmericans today have higher incomes thanAmericans in general and higher occupational status. TheChinese have risen to this position despite some of the harshest discrimination and violence faced by any immigrants to the United States in the history of this country. Long confined to a narrow range of occupations, they succeeded in those occupations and then spread out into other areas in later years, when opportunities finally opened up for them. Today much of theChinese prosperity is due to the simple fact that they work more and have more (usually better) education than others.Almost one out of fiveChinese families has three or more income earners compared to one out of thirteen for Puerto Ricans, one out of ten amongAmerican Indians, and one out of eight among Whites. When theChinese advantages in working and educational are held constant, they have no advantage over otherAmericans. That is in aChinese Family with a given number of people working and with a given amount of education by the head of the family; the income is not only about average for such families, but offer a little less than average.
WhileChineseAmericans as a group are prosperous and well-educatedChinatowns are pockets of poverty, and illiteracy is much higher among theChinese than amongAmericans in general. Those paradoxes are due to sharp internal differences.Descendants of theChineseAmericans who emigrated long ago from Toishan Province have maintainedChinese values and have added acculturation toAmerican society with remarkable success. More recent Hong KongChinese are from more diverse cultural origins, and acquired western values and styles in Hong Kong, without having acquired the skills to proper and support those aspirations in theAmerican economy. Foreign- bornChinese men in the United States earn one-fourth lower incomes than native-bornChinese even though the foreign-born have been in the United States an average of seventeen years. While the older Hong KongChinese work tenaciously to sustain and advance themselves, the Hong KongChinese youths often react with resentment and antisocial behavior, including terrorism and murder. The need to maintain tourism inChinatown causes theChinese leaders to mute or downplay these problems as much as possible.
According to the passage, today,ChineseAmericans owe their prosperity to ______.
A、their diligence and better education than others
B、their support ofAmerican government
C、their fight against discriminations
D、advantages in working only
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