题干
Immigrant children are often highly motivated and have ambitious parents. And these clever, knowledge-hungry youngsters often achieve higher results than the rest of the classmates.
In 1954, the United States opened its borders to an immigrant from Syria. His son, Steve Jobs, became one of the most creative entrepreneurs（企业家）.In the current refugee crisis, that might look like a fairy tale, but it is not that unbelievable.
While immigrant youngsters might face cultural, social and economic disadvantages, the top 10% of 15- year-old students with an immigrant background in the United States did just as well as the top 10% without an immigrant background, as measured by Pisa, an international test.
In fact, when considering social background, these high-achieving immigrant teenagers were almost a school year ahead.
This doesn't only happen in the United States. In 13out of the 37 countries with comparable data, including the United Kingdom, the top 10% of immigrants were at least 10 points ahead of the non-immigrant students in Pisa, after considering social background.
These highly motivated students, managing to overcome the double disadvantages of poverty and an immigrant background, have the potential（潜力）to make exceptional contributions to their host countries.
On average across all countries, top performing immigrants and non-immigrants reached similar levels of performance on the Pisa mathematics test. Many immigrants seem determined to make the most of any opportunity that arises. Their children also seem ready to take on an academic challenge. Alongside the Pisa are questions about students' willingness to try to solve more complex problems. First-generation immigrants, including in the UK, are more likely than average to want to stretch themselves and try to answer more difficult problems.
The OECD's research shows that in most cases immigrant students and their parents hold an ambition to win the matches, and in some cases they go beyond the expectations of families in their host country. For example, parents of immigrant students in Belgium, Germany and Hungary are more likely to expect that their children will go to university and get a degree than parents of students without an immigrant background.
【小题1】Why is Steve Jobs referred as an example？| A．To criticize the policy of the United States. |
| B．To prove immigrant children caused all the refugee crisis. |
| C．To agree that immigrant children could get along well with others. |
| D．To show immigrant children could make better achievements than those in their native countries. |
| A．are all the questions from Pisa |
| B．exist only in the United Kingdom |
| C．are objective factors for the children to face |
| D．make the children hard to catch up with their classmates |
| A．Make themselves longer by pulling. |
| B．Extend their knowledge or ability. |
| C．Occupy a large area. |
| D．Show off themselves. |
| A．All the parents hope for their children's achievements. |
| B．Parents play an important role in their children's getting over the difficulty in study. |
| C．Parents' cleverness results in their children's achievements. |
| D．Immigrant children's achievements result from a strong drive for success. |
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