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  3. Latino youths need better education for Arizona to take full advantage of the possibilities their exploding population offers. A

Latino youths need better education for Arizona to take full advantage of the possibilities their exploding population offers. A

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问题     Latino youths need better education for Arizona to take full advantage of the possibilities their exploding population offers. Arizona’s fast-growing Latino population offers the state tremendous promise and a challenge. Even more than the aging of the baby boomers, the Latino boom is fundamentally reorienting the state’s economic and social structure.
    Immigration and natural increase have added 600,000 young Latino residents to the state’s population in the past decade. Half of the population younger than 18 in both Phoenix and Tucson is now Latino. Within 20 years. Latinos will make up half of the homegrown entry-level labor pool in the state’s two largest labor markets.
    What is more, Hispanics are becoming key economic players. Most people don’t notice it, but Latinos born in Arizona make up much of their immigrant parents’ economic and educational deficits. For example, Second-generation Mexican-Americans secure an average of 12 grades of schooling where their parents obtained less than nine. That means they erase 70 percent of their parents’ lag behind third-generation non-Hispanic Whites in a single generation.
    All of this hands the state a golden opportunity. At a time when many states will struggle with labor shortages because of modest population growth, Arizona has a priceless chance to build a populous, hardworking and skilled workforce on which to base future prosperity. The problem is that Arizona and its Latino residents may not be able to seize this opportunity. Far too many of Arizona’s Latinos drop out of high school or fail to obtain the basic education needed for more advanced study. As a result, educational deficits are holding back many Latinos—and the state as well. To be sure, construction and low-end service jobs continue to absorb tens of thousands of Latino immigrants with little formal education. But over the long term, most of Arizona’s Latino citizens remain ill-prepared to prosper in an increasingly demanding knowledge economy.
    For the reason, the educational uplift of Arizona’s huge Latino population must move to the center of the state’s agenda. After all, the education deficits of Arizona’s Latino population will severely cramp the fortunes of hardworking people if they go unaddressed and could well undercut the state’s ability to compete in the new economy. At the entry level, slower growth rates may create more competition for low-skill jobs, displacing Latinos from a significant means of support. At the higher end, shortages of Latinos educationally ready to move up will make it that much harder for knowledge-based companies staff high-skill positions.
It is implied that in the long run most Latinos in Arizona will________.
选项 A、do low-skill jobs
B、be badly-paid
C、be jobless
D、do high-skill jobs
答案A
解析 本题关键词是Latinos in Arizona，问题是：未来大部分亚利桑那州的拉丁裔人口将会如何?答案定位于第四和第五段。第四段第七句提到，但从长远来看(over the long term)，大多数拉丁裔公民仍然对在要求越来越高的知识经济中取得成功缺乏准备，原文第五段第四句提到，往高处说(At the higher end)，由于缺乏为适应工作升迁而获得充分教育的拉丁裔(shortages of Latinos educationally ready to move up)，以致以知识为基础的公司的高技术要求岗位更难得到补充，其中ill-prepared和shortages of Latinos educationally ready都表明从长远来看，拉丁裔美国人受的教育仍然处于较低的水平。由此可以推断，他们只能做一些技术要求不高的工作，因此选项A “do low skill jobs”与原文属于相同含义，为正确选项，而选项D属于正反混淆。选项B的“be badly—paid”和选项C的“be jobless”在原文中没有提及，均属于无中生有。
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