Task 3 Fill in the blanks in the following passage by selecting suitable words from the word bank. You may not use any of the words more than once. A. economy B. immigrate C. cherish D. shaping E. competition F. enabled G. heritage H. despite If a nation’s strength lies in its people, then the strength of the United States clearly lies in the multiculturalism of our people. People from all over the world (1) into the US, and in one way or another, each group has played some role in (2) the nation into the one with its present superpower status. Past immigrants built our cities, traffic systems, and labor unions and (3) us to come of age both agriculturally and industrially. Many of today’s immigrants have made our cities full of life; helped our high-tech industries remain ahead of the (4) ; and put billions of dollars into its national (5) Aevery year. Each immigrant group then and now has worked hard to live and put down roots. However, (6) the fact that the immigrant flowers are beautiful, some others do not often see their beauty. It is the exceptional person who respects immigrants when they are immigrants. Only after the immigrant rose dies away and its falling parts mix with the soil that contains all our roots do we look back and (7) the flower that is all along part of our proud (8) .