B．cause conflicts among people

　　C．lead to financial difficulties

　　D．put pressure on schools

　　答案：B　细节理解题。根据文章第三段第一句话中的"such measures will become more a vehicle for intolerance than integration (融合)"可知，有的移民担心对移民的语言测试和要求可能会导致各民族间的偏执而非融合，故选B项"在人们之间引起冲突"。

　　3．What do we know about Cojochru?

　　A．She lives with her sister now in Italy.

　　B．She enjoys learning the Italian language.

　　C．She speaks Italian well enough for her job.

　　D．She wishes to go back to her home country.

　　答案：C　细节理解题。由最后一段中的"even though she's stayed in the country for years and can speak the local language fluently"可以看出，科约卡鲁的意大利语说得足够流利，这让她能够胜任她的工作。故选C。

　　B

　　I am an English dictionary. I can still remember the day my ex­owner bought me. He had stood in front of the shelf for around half an hour before finally picking me. Originally, he chose my neighbor. But because she had some ink on the cover, he put her down and chose me instead.

　　I may sound arrogant(傲慢的). But please forgive me. I am so proud of my vocabulary. With 100,000 entries and 300,000 examples, I think no scholar can be more knowledgeable than me. My only weakness is that I can't speak. But that is not my fault. I was not designed to speak in the first place. My ex­owner was supposed to read the phonetic symbols (音标) clearly printed beside each word, which were also my selling point. I should have been respected but have ended up lying next to a piece of used toilet paper inside the rubbish bin.

　　It is all because of the electronic dictionary. He is a bad guy because he takes advantage of my weakness. And I just don't understand why he can be so slim. He also has about 100,000 entries but 450,000 examples! But I know this was not the reason why my ex­owner was attracted, for he was not a very diligent student and seldom read the examples listed. The main reason was that the bad guy had so many games in him. My ex­owner always pretended to be working hard while actually he was playing games.

　　My ex­owner put me on his bookshelf because of my awesome English name Advanced English Dictionary. He wanted people to think that he was an advanced learner. I wanted to tell him that it would be better if he hid the comic book standing next to me. But, you know, I can't speak. I stood there for years. I was so bored. So I talked to the comic book next to me. Under normal circumstances, I wouldn't have talked to him because I was educated and he was not. But who else could I choose? He told me that my ex­owner had read him once only and then put him there. I was upset because he had never read me from page one to page 1,000. Was I not a better book than the comic book? I wanted to challenge his honesty but before I did so, he was thrown away.

　　I give up. My pages are absorbing waste water. There is no way people will use me again. Suddenly, I want to talk to the comic book. Would he talk to me if we met?

篇章导读：本文是一篇记叙文。文章以第一人称和拟人的写作手法，生动地记叙了一本高级英语词典的经历。