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READING I:
Wilder, where Latinos now make up three-quarters of the population, has become an unlikely
symbol of the rising influence of Latinos nationwide. Every day the rest of the United States
becomes a little more like Wilder.
The Latino population of the United States has grown six times since 1970, reaching an estimated
57,4 million in 2016, or nearly 18 percent of the population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Because of this increase, the United States will become a “minority majority” country by the middle
of this century. This dramatic reordering of the nation’s demographics is creating anger and
conflict, which some opportunistic politicians and media commentators are increasing the conflict
criticizing Latinos and creating the idea that white people are victims in an increasingly diverse
United States. Such critics, including President Donald Trump, often made Latinos look like violent
gang members, job stealers uninterested in learning English, and undocumented immigrants who
come to the United States and have so-called anchor babies, children who are U.S. citizens at birth
but their parents are illegal immigrants. Resentment about immigration —most of the estimated 11
million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. are Latinos— facilitated the political shifts that sent
Trump to the White House.
READING II:
Metaphysical issues are concerned with the nature of reality. Traditional metaphysical issues
include the existence of God and the nature of human free will (assuming we have any). Here are a
few metaphysical questions of interest to contemporary philosophers: What is a thing? How are
space and time related? Does the past exist? How about the future? How many dimensions does the
world have? Are there any entities beyond physical objects (like numbers, properties, and
relations)? If so, how are they related to physical objects? Historically, many philosophers have
proposed and defended specific metaphysical positions, often as part of systematic and
comprehensive metaphysical views. But attempts to establish systematic metaphysical world views
have been notoriously unsuccessful.
A) no philosopher could answer what the 7. Which is the structure about simple
past and the future are. present?
B) the idea of objects that transcend the
physical would be irrelevant. A) subj + verb + adjective
C) metaphysical philosophical schools B) does + plural pronun + verb + ?
would continue to increase. C) do + singular pronoun + verb + ?
D) metaphysical questions could possibly D) subj + verb + complement
be resolved with certainty. E) subj + do + complement + ?
E) philosophy would be doomed to
extinction with complete certainty.