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单选题Questions are based on the following passage.
Latino youths need better education for Arizona to take full advantage of the possibilities their exploding population offers. Arizona´s fast-growing Latino population offers the state tremendous promise and a challenge. Even more than the aging of the baby boomers, the Latino boom is funda-mentally reorienting the state´s economic and social structure.
Immigration and natural increase have added 600,000 young Latino residents to the state´s population in the past decade. Half of the population younger than 18 in both Phoenix and Tucson is now Latino. Within 20 years, Latinos will make up half of the homegrown entry-level labour pool in the state´ s two largest labour markets.
What is more, Hispanics are becoming key economic players. Most people don´t notice it, but Latinos born in Arizona make up much of their immigrant parents´ economic and educational deficits. For example, second-generation Mexican-Americans secure an average of 12 grades of schooling where their parents obtained less than nine. That means they erase 70 percent of their parents´ lag behind third-generation non-Hispanic Whites in a single generation.
All of this hands the state a golden opportunity. At a time when many states will struggle with labour shortages because of modest population growth, Arizona has a priceless chance to build a populous, hardworking and skilled workforce on which to base future prosperity. The problem is that Arizona and its Latino residents may not be able to seize this opportunity. Far too many of Ari-zona´s Latinos drop out of high school or fail to obtain the basic education needed for more ad- vanced study. As a result, educational deficits are holding back many Latinos--and the state as well.
To be sure, construction and low-end service jobs continue to absorb tens of thousands of Latino immigrants with little formal education. But over the long term, most of Arizona´s Latino citizens remain ill-prepared to prosper in an increasingly demanding knowledge economy.
For the reason, the educational uplift of Arizona´s huge Latino population must move to the centre of the state´s agenda. After all, the education deficits of Arizona´s Latino population will severely cramp the fortunes of hardworking people if they go unaddressed and could well undercut the state´s ability to compete in the new economy. At the entry level, slower growth rates may create more competition for low-skill jobs, displacing Latinos from a significant means of support. At the
higher end, shortages of Latinos educationally ready to move up will make it that much harder for knowledge-based companies staff high-skill positions.
The Latino population is changing Arizona´s _____

A．aging problem
B．educational system
C．economic structure
D．financial deficits

参考答案C

解析:参考译文
为使亚利桑那州充分利用激增的拉丁裔人口带来的机会，拉丁裔青年应该接受更好的教育。亚利桑那州快速增长的拉丁裔人口为该州带来了前所未有的美好展望，但同时挑战并存。相较于生育高峰期出生人口的老龄化，拉丁裔生育高峰期对该州经济和社会结构的重新调整更具有影响力。
在过去的l0年间，移民和自然资源的增长使得亚利桑那州人口增加了60万拉丁裔年轻居民。现在凤凰城和图森两座城市18岁以下的半数人口是拉丁裔。未来20年，拉丁裔将占据亚利桑那州最大的两个劳动市场本土初级劳动资源的一半。
更重要的是，西班牙裔正在扮演重要的经济角色。大多数人并未注意，但是亚利桑那州出生的拉丁裔弥补了移民父辈的经济、教育赤字。比如说，第二代墨西哥裔美国人确保能够接受l2年教育．但是他们的父母只上过9年的学。这意味着只用了一代人的时间，他们就消除了父母与第三代非西班牙裔白人之间70％的差距。
所有这些为亚利桑那州带来了绝佳的机会。正当许多州因为平缓的人口增长挣扎于劳动力短缺的时候，亚利桑那州面前摆着一个为了未来繁荣富强，建立一支人数众多，勤奋努力和技术高超的劳动力大军的宝贵机会。问题是亚利桑那州及其拉丁裔人可能无法抓住这个机会。因为很多的拉丁裔人高中辍学，或者未能接受深造所需要的基础教育。结果，教育缺失拖了许多拉丁裔人的后腿——也耽误了亚利桑那州的发展。固然，建筑业和低级服务行业会继续吸引成千上万未受过正式教育的拉丁裔移民。但是从长远来看．大多数拉丁裔人在对人的要求越来越高的知识经济中取得成功缺乏准备。
因此，必须把提升亚利桑那州大量拉丁裔人口的教育水平提到州议事日程的核心位置。毕竟，如果亚利桑那州的拉丁裔缺乏教育的问题得不到重视．将会严重限制工作勤奋的人获得成功的机会．也会大大削弱亚利桑那州在新经济体制下的竞争力。从基础层面来讲，缓慢的增长率会导致技术含量低的岗位竞争更为激烈，从而导致拉丁裔被排除在重要的生产大军之外。而从更高的层面来说，对于适应工作升迁而接受充分教育的拉丁裔人群的稀缺会导致以知识为基础的公司员工高技术要求岗位更难得到补充。
解析
细节题。根据第一段最后一句the Latino boom is fundamentally reorienting the state’s economic and social structure可知拉丁裔生育高峰期对亚利桑那州经济结构的重新调整更具有影响力。因此，正确答案是C。

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