（每日一读）2014年3月高考英语考前突破 阅读理解能力 社会生活 加拿大将终结贷款换永久居留权的政策

加拿大将终结贷款换永久居留权的政策Wealthy Chinese looking for an escape route from their native land -- and there are hundreds of thousands in this class -- received bad news last week: the Canadian government decided to terminate a deal that essentially allowed foreign millionaires to loan 800,000 Canadian dollars (or a little less than $730,000) to the Canadian state for five years in exchange for permanent residency.在当下中国的富豪阶层中存在着千千万万寻求移民的富人们——但是他们得注意了，坏消息表明，加拿大政府最近决定终结一项外国百万富翁通过在 5 年中不间断地为加拿大本国提供 80 万加元（略微比 73 万美元少一点点）的贷款而换取永久居留权的政策。 Ottawa's cancellation of the immigrant-investor program means that 65,000 pending（未决定的） applications will be left unprocessed. The majority of these unprocessed visa appeals are from mainland Chinese. So what's a poor rich Chinese to do now? The China Daily, the government's English-language mouthpiece（喉舌，代言人）, described Canada's cancelation as "unfair" in a Feb. 17 headline. But immigration agencies in Beijing, with their plush offices in the central business district, are hawking plenty of alternatives. One option lies just south of the Canadian border. Chinese who invest as little as $500,000 and employ 10 people in a rural or struggling part of the US can secure EB-5 investor visa, which can lead to green cards. Two major emigration consultancies in Beijing, Globe Visa and Cansine Immigration, are recommending the US now that Canada's immigrant-investor option has shuttered. Then there are the financial laggards of the EU that are so desperate for a bailout that they are basically selling residency to cash-endowed Chinese for as little as $100,000. Count nations like Latvia,...