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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5932/T13.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='New US Citizenship Test Could Be Harder' data-article-id='6539'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='7875'>A new United States citizenship test is expected to be launched by late next year. </span> <span data-start-time='7875' data-end-time='19313'>Some immigrants and their supporters worry the updated exam will hurt test-takers with lower levels of English skills.</span> <span data-start-time='19313' data-end-time='24938'>The test is one of the final steps to gain American citizenship. </span> <span data-start-time='24938' data-end-time='28938'>The entire process takes months. </span> <span data-start-time='28938' data-end-time='36458'>It also requires legal permanent residency for years before applying.</span> <span data-start-time='36458' data-end-time='42792'>The test currently in use was last updated in 2008.</span> <span data-start-time='42792' data-end-time='50313'>In 2020, the former presidential administration launched a new citizenship test. </span> <span data-start-time='50313' data-end-time='56521'>It was harder and longer than the test it replaced.</span> <span data-start-time='56521' data-end-time='64458'>When President Joe Biden came in to office months later, he ordered an end to that test. </span> <span data-start-time='64458' data-end-time='69354'>The order re-established the former test.</span> <span data-start-time='69354' data-end-time='76271'>Late last year, U.S. officials announced that the test would be updated.</span> <span data-start-time='76271' data-end-time='87438'>U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has proposed that the new test update the English-speaking part of the test. </span> <span data-start-time='87438' data-end-time='101375'>It suggests that test givers show images of simple, everyday things like weather or food, and ask the applicant to describe what they see.</span> <span data-start-time='101375' data-end-time='110417'>In the current test, an officer examines an applicant’s speaking ability during the naturalization interview. </span> <span data-start-time='110417' data-end-time='120688'>The examiner asks personal questions that the applicant has already answered in writing, for naturalization documents.</span> <span data-start-time='120688' data-end-time='128417'>“For me, I think it would be harder to look at pictures and explain them,” said Heaven Mehreta.</span> <span data-start-time='128417' data-end-time='133167'>She emigrated from Ethiopia 10 years ago. </span> <span data-start-time='133167' data-end-time='141563'>Mehreta passed the naturalization test in May and, last month, she became a U.S. citizen.</span> <span data-start-time='141563' data-end-time='150667'>Another proposed change would make the civics section on U.S. history and government multiple-choice. </span> <span data-start-time='150667' data-end-time='156063'>Currently, applicants give spoken short answers.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5932/T13.jpeg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=19588 data-hint-location='7875' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5932/some_immigrants_and_their_supporters_worry_the_updated__blank__will_hurt_testtakers_with_lower_levels_of_english_skills.wav'>Some immigrants and their supporters worry the updated <span class='blank'>exam</span> will hurt test-takers with lower levels of English skills.</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='exam'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5932/exam.wav'><span>exam</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5932/lamb.wav'><span>lamb</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5932/sand.wav'><span>sand</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5932/extort.wav'><span>extort</span></div></div></div><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=19589 data-hint-location='36458' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5932/in_which_year_was_the_test_that_is_currently_in_use_last_updated.wav'>In which year was the test that is currently in use last updated?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='2008'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5932/2006.wav'><span>2006</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5932/2007.wav'><span>2007</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5932/2008.wav'><span>2008</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5932/2009.wav'><span>2009</span></div></div></div><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=19590 data-hint-location='133167' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5932/which_of_the_following_best_defines_the_word_naturalization_within_the_context_of_the_article.wav'>Which of the following best defines the word "naturalization" within the context of the article?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='the admittance of a foreigner to the citizenship of a country'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5932/the_process_by_which_fruit_juice_is_extracted.wav'><span>the process by which fruit juice is extracted</span></div><div 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