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凯程考研辅导班，中国最强的考研辅导机构， HYPERLINK  考研就找凯程考研，学生满意，家长放心，社会认可！ 凯程考研，考研机构，10年高质量辅导，值得信赖！ 以学员的前途为已任，为学员提供高效、专业的服务，团队合作,为学员服务，为学员引路。 2015考研英语阅读理解精读P5—历史学 　Passage 5(Working Far From Home?) 　　Al Hussein is 19. He is struggling to stay seated on top of a huge truck crossing the desert. He has been riding like that for hours, breathing dust, in an unbearable heat. He has left his home, his twin brother, and the rest of his family down South. Beyond the desert lies the sea, and maybe, if he is lucky a boat to Europe where he hopes to get a job, to start a new life, and to send money to his village. 　　Al Hussein is hardly alone in his perilous trek. Some 150 million men, women and even children, about three percent of the world’s population, are outside their country of origin coming as strangers to the country where they reside. There is no continent, no region of the world which has no migrants within its boundaries. Every country has become a country of origin, transit or destination of migrants. Many are all three. More than half of international migrants live in developing countries. According to the International Organization for Migration, the 　　largest numbers of international migrants are located in Asia; Europe and North America have about equal numbers followed by Africa, Latin America, and Oceania with progressively fewer numbers. The International Labor Organization (ILO) estimates that up to 80 million of these are migrant workers. In 1997, ILO estimated that the number of migrant workers was as follows: Africa, 20 Million; North America, 17 million; Central andSouth America 12 million; Asia 7 million; the Middle East (Arab countries), 9 million, and Europe 30 million. 　　Migration is hardly a recent or localized phenomenon. Women and men have been leaving their homelands in search of a better job. People also leave their own countries because of civil conflicts and insecurity or persecution. However, in this globalized world, we are witnessing unprecedentedly