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It is a fact universally accepted that Britons dislike immigration. Sure enough, when travel restrictions on Romanians and Bulga

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问题     It is a fact universally accepted that Britons dislike immigration. Sure enough, when travel restrictions on Romanians and Bulgarians (imposed when their countries joined the EU) were lifted on January 1st, newspapers and politicians fretted. Two MPs even took it upon themselves to meet a morning flight from Bucharest and quiz its passengers. Yet a report published on January 2nd by Ipsos MORI, a polling firm, shows attitudes to be more varied.
    A widening gap divides those born before 1965 from younger folk. Although immigrants are often said to deprive younger Britons of entry-level jobs and housing, members of Generation Y (born in 1980 or later) and Generation X (born between 1966 and 1979) are ambivalent towards them. By contrast, the baby boomers (born between 1945 and 1965) and the old, who benefit most from cheap carers and cleaners, counterintuitively think immigrants a drag. Age influences opinion more strongly than social class does.
    This makes Britain an oddity. Ipsos MORI conducted the same study in Germany, and found the views of the young and the old to be converging. According to Robert Ford of the University of Manchester, the gap between the old and the young is larger in Britain than in America, France or Spain, too.
    Different life experiences explain why. When baby boomers were in their politically formative teens and early 20s, Britain was a pretty homogeneous place; before the mid-1970s it was closer to the Commonwealth than to continental Europe. That generation grew up doubtful about diversity. East European immigrants, who began arriving in large numbers in the mid-2000s, doubly offend them. Bobby Duffy of Ipsos MORI, who has conducted focus groups with members of this generation, reports that the prospect of retirement makes people worry about their children’s chances.
    For Generation X, mass immigration, European integration and multiculturalism are part of the furniture. They grew up in a more individualistic Britain; which, says Mr. Ford, explains their relative distaste for authority, homogeneity and flag-waving. This, like university attendance (more common among this group than their parents), tends to make people more tolerant of different races and nationalities. Thus Generation X’s experiences are closer to those of Generation Y than to the baby boomers—a fact reflected in Ipsos MORI’s findings.
Which of the following are true about generation X except ______.
选项 A、mass immigration and cultural integration are the most important factors to them
B、individualism is their basic ideology
C、authority and homogeneity are not favored by them
D、their experiences are identical to Generation Y’s
答案C
解析 选项A是对末段第一句的曲解，原文说“mass immigration, European integration and multiculturalism are part of the furniture”，“part of”表示“是……的一部分”，不能等同于选项中的“the most important factors”。选项B是对原文末段第二句的曲解，“they grew up in a more individualistic Britain”不代表“个人利己主义是他们的基本意识形态”，属于夸大了原意。选项D是对最后一句的误解。“Thus Generation X’s experiences are closer to those of Generation Y than to the baby boomers—a fact reflected in Ipsos MORI’s findings”中的“are closer to”表示“更近”，不表示“identical(一模一样)”。选项C符合最后一段“their relative distaste for authority, homogeneity and flag-waving”，“relative distaste”表示“相对的厌恶”，显然可以推出和覆盖选项C中的“not favored”，即“不赞成”之意。
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