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Abby Subark is a mother of two kids from Boston. "For my kids, I’m nervous.
Abby Subark is a mother of two kids from Boston. "For my kids, I’m nervous.
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2023-07-06
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Abby Subark is a mother of two kids from Boston. "For my kids, I’m nervous. I don’t know if they’ll be able to achieve their American dream." She may be right. More than hard work or education, the best way to get rich in America is to be born rich.
It is the case that somebody who is in the upper third of income, with poor scores, at the bottom on tests when they are in eighth grade, is more likely to go to college and finish college than a poor kid with the top scores. That’s what the working person’s children are up against.
The Economic Policy Institute finds it would take a poor couple with 2 children 9 or 10 generations to achieve middle class status. That’s about 200 years. The typical feature of American opportunity has always been the ability to do better than your parents. But compared with similar developed countries, the United States ranks fifth out of six for so-called intergenerational mobility(变动).
If you look at the mechanisms(机制)for upward mobility that were so readily available 50 years ago, they are becoming out of reach, like plentiful factory jobs with good wages and affordable education and health care.
White families are twice as likely as blacks to be upwardly mobile. For most people in America today,
where you end up depends on where you start
.
If you started in the middle-income class, about 40 to 45 percent of what you are making right now is due to the fact that your parents were in the middle-income class. The rest is up to you.
But for the millions of people who find themselves below the poverty line and the millions more who are the working poor, their starting point for the American dream leaves them painfully far away from the middle class. [br] Why is Abby Subark nervous?
选项
A、Her kids don’t want to catch up with other kids in achievements.
B、Her kids don’t want to achieve success at all.
C、Her kids can only achieve success through hard work and education.
D、Her family is not rich enough to help her kids achieve their goals.
答案
D
解析
推断题。短文第一段指出Abby Subark很焦虑,因为她不知道自己的孩子是否会实现美国梦。紧着短文又指出She may be right.More than hard work oreducation,the best way to get rich in America is to be born rich.即相比起勤奋工作和受教育程度,在美国成为有钱人做好的办法是生在富裕家庭里。由此可知,AbbySubark家不富裕,不能帮助孩子实现美国梦。故选D。
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