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Passage #2     A prevailing phenomenon in the era of globalization is that many individuals develop aflexible notion of citizenship as strategies to accumulate capital and power. Many scholarsidentify the phenomenon as “flexible citizenship,” which refers to the cultural logics ofcapitalist accumulation, transnational travel, and displacement that induce people to respondfluidly and opportunistically to political, economic and social changes. In their quest toaccumulate capital and prestige in the global arena, these transnational subjects stress, and areregulated by, practices favoring flexibility, mobility, and repositioning in relation to markets,governments and cultural regimes. These logics and practices are produced within particularstructures of meaning about family, gender, nationality, class mobility, and social power.   Flexibility and mobility enable the transnational subjects to construct a new mode ofidentity across political borders. To illustrate, transnational subjects include figures such asmulticultural professionals, multiple-passport holders, the “astronauts” shuttling acrossborders on business, or “parachute kids” dropped off by parents on the trans-Pacificbusiness commute. The individuals who are able to benefit from their participation in globalcapitalism mostly celebrate flexibility and mobility. Today, as mobility and flexibility form anintegral part of human behavioral patterns, the new connections between flexibility and thelogics of displacement, on the one hand, and capital accumulation, on the other, have givennew valence to the strategies of maneuvering and positioning. Flexibility, migration andrelocation, instead of being coerced or resisted, have become fashionable practices.
36. The words “fluidly and opportunistically” in the first paragraph can be best understood as_____.
(A) persistently and stubbornly
(B) passively and idealistically
(C) sloppily and negligently
(D)submissively and reluctantly
(E) contingently and circumstantially

參考答案

答案：E
難度：適中0.571429
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(4)

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