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My fellow Americans, tonight, I’d like to talk with you about immigration.
For more than 200 years, our tradition of welcoming immigrants from around the world has given us a tremendous advantage over other nations. It’s kept us youthful, dynamic, and entrepreneurial. It has shaped our character as a people with limitless possibilities—people not trapped by our past, but able to remake ourselves as we choose.
–Address to the nation on immigration, President Obama, 2014
Which advantages of immigration does President Obama name in this passage? Check all that apply.
It has helped create new businesses.
It has helped boost the nation’s military.
It has helped shift the nation’s death rate.
It has shaped the character of the country.
It has given us benefits that other countries do not have.
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In the passage, President Obama emphasizes the following advantages of immigration:
1. **It has helped create new businesses.** (implied by mentioning entrepreneurship)
2. **It has shaped the character of the country.**
The other options (boosting the military, shifting the death rate, and giving benefits that other countries do not have) are not mentioned or implied in the passage.
1. **It has helped create new businesses.** (implied by mentioning entrepreneurship)
2. **It has shaped the character of the country.**
The other options (boosting the military, shifting the death rate, and giving benefits that other countries do not have) are not mentioned or implied in the passage.