Immigration is an issue ______ raises strong emotions.
A.who
B.that
C.in which
D.of which
A.who
B.that
C.in which
D.of which
A.Securitycheck
B.Customs
C.Immigration
D.Quarantine
A.Check-in
B.Passport control
C.Immigration
D.Security control
What can be learned from the last paragraph?
A. Immigration issues are usually decided by Congress.
B. Justices intended to check the power of the Administrstion.
C. Justices wanted to strengthen its coordination with Congress.
D. The Administration is dominant over immigration issues.
用新古典分配理论预期下列每个事件对实际工资和资本实际租赁价格的影响:
a.移民潮增加了劳动力
b.地震摧毁了部分资本存量
c.技术进步改善了生产函数
Use the neoclassical theory of distribution to predict the impact on the real wage and the real rental price of capital of each of the following events:
a.A wave of immigration increases the labor force.
b.An earthquake destroys some of the capital stock.
c.A technological advance improves the production function.
假设生产函数是参数a=0.3的柯布—道格拉斯生产函数。
a.资本和劳动得到的收入比例是多少?
b.假设移民使劳动力增加了10%。总产出会发生什么变化(用百分比表示)?资本的租赁物价会发生什么变化?实际工资会发生什么变化?
c.假设来自国外的资本赠与使资本存量增加了10%。总产出会发生什么变化(用百分比表示)?资本的租赁物价会发生什么变化?实际工资会发生什么变化?
d.假设技术进步使参数A的值提高了10%。总产出会发生什么变化(用百分比表示)?资本的租赁物价会发生什么变化?实际工资会发生什么变化?
Suppose that the production function is Cobb-Douglas with parameter α=0.3.
a.What fractions of income do capital and labor receive?
b.Suppose that immigration raises the labor force by 10 percent. What happens to total output (in percent)? The rental price of capital? The real wage?
c.Suppose that a gift of capital from abroad raises the capital stock by 10 percent. What happens to total output (in percent)? The rental price of capital? The real wage?
d.Suppose that a technological advance raises the value of the parameter A by 10 percent. What happens to total output (in percent)? The rental price of capital? The real wage?
A Debate on the English Language
A measure declaring English the national language is under intense debate in the United States. The US Senate passed two declarations last week. One calls English the nation's official language and the other says it is the “common and unifying(统一的)”tongue. But Americans found themselves divided on the issue.
Since people worldwide know that most Americans speak only English, many can't understand why the issue is so controversial(有争议的).
“The discussion is related to fears of immigration issues,” says Dick Tucker, a social scientist at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University. “It's related to a worry about the changing demography(人口统计)of the US. It's a worry about who will continue to have political and economic influence.”
In fact, the notion of protecting the language has been kicked around almost since the nation's founding. John Adams lobbied(游说)in 1780 for the creation of a national academy to correct and improve the English language. But his proposal died, since lawmakers saw it as a royalist(保皇主义者)attempt to define personal behavior.
Since then, the country hasn't had a national language, but the idea of recognizing the special status of English lived on.
The emotions surrounding language resurface(再次浮现)not because people feel comfortable with English. It is more about the discomfort many Americans feel with the new languages, says Walt Wolfram, a professor at North Carolina State University.
“Language is never about language,” he says.
According to the 2000 US Census Bureau report, of 209 million Americans over 18 years old,172 million speak only English at home. About 37 million speak languages other than English. Among them, 6.5 million speak poor English and 3.1 million don't speak English at all.
What are the two declarations concerned with?
A.The status of the English language.
B.The protection of new languages.
C.The rights to speak one's mother tongue.
D.The improvement of the English language.
Although the birth rate continued to, decline from its high level of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the population roughly doubled every generation during the rest of the nineteenth century. As the population grew, its makeup also changed. Massive waves of immigration brought new ethnic groups into the country. Geographic and social mobility—downward as well as upward—touched almost everyone. Local studies indicate that nearly three-quarters of the population in the North and South, in the emerging cities of the Northeast, and in the restless rural counties of the West changed their residence each decade. As a consequence, historian David Donald has written, "Social atomization affected every segment of society", and it seemed to many people that "all the recognized values of orderly civilization were gradually being eroded."
Rapid industrialization and increased geographic mobility in the nineteenth century had special implications for women because these changes tended to magnify social distinctions. As the roles men and women played in society became more rigidly defined, so did the roles they played in the home. In the context of extreme competitiveness and dizzying social change, the household lost many of its earlier functions and the home came to serve as a haven of tranquility and order. As the size of families decreased, the roles of husband and wife became more clearly differentiated than ever before. In the middle class especially, men participated in the productive economy while women ruled the home and served as the custodians of civility and culture. The intimacy of marriage that was common in earlier periods was rent, and a gulf that at times seemed unbridgeable was created between husbands and wives.
What does the passage mainly discuss?______
A.The economic development of the United States in the eighteenth century
B.Ways in which economic development led to social changes in the United States
C.Population growth in the western United States
D.The increasing availability of industrial jobs for women in the Unites States