2015年6月大學(xué)英語(yǔ)六級(jí)考試閱讀的section A選詞填空,要求從15個(gè)題目中選出10個(gè)詞填到文章中對(duì)應(yīng)的空格部分。文章主題是論述科技的進(jìn)步對(duì)于就業(yè)的影響。網(wǎng)校搜集整理了原題及答案,供學(xué)習(xí)參考:
題目:
Innovation, the elixir (靈丹妙藥) of progress, has always cost people their jobs. In the Industrial Revolution hand weavers were ___36___ aside by the mechanical loom. Over the past 30 years the digital revolution has ___37___ many of the mid-skill jobs that underpinned 20th-century middle-class life. Typists, ticketagents, bank tellers and many production-line jobs have been dispensed with,just as the weavers were.
For those who believe that technological progress has made the world a better place, such disruption is a natural part of rising ___38___. Although innovation kills some jobs, it creates new and better ones, as a more ___39___ society becomes richer and its wealthier inhabitants demand more goods and services. A hundred years ago one in three American workers was ___40___ on a farm. Today less than 2% of them produce far more food. The millions freed from the land were not rendered ___41___, but found better-paid work as the economy grew more sophisticated. Today the pool of secretaries has___42___, but there are ever more computer programmers and web designers.
Optimism remains the right starting-point, but for workers the dislocating effects of technology may make themselves evident faster than its ___43___. Even if new jobs and wonderful products emerge, in the short term income gaps will widen, causing huge social dislocation and perhaps even changing politics. Technology's ___44___ will feel like a tornado (旋風(fēng)), hitting the rich world first, but ___45___ sweeping through poorer countries too. No government is prepared for it.
參考答案:
36. N swept
37. B displaced
38. I prosperity
39. H productive
40. C employed
41. F jobless
42. M shrunk
43. A benefits
44. E impact
45. D eventually