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2017年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语（二）
Section I Use of English
Directions:
Read the following text.Choose the best word(s)for each numbered blank and mark A,B,C or D on the ANSWER SHEET.(10 points)
①People have speculated for centuries about a future without work.②Today is no different,with academics,writers,and activists once again 1 that technology is replacing human workers.③Some imagine that the coming work-free world will be defined by 2.④A few wealthy people will own all the capital,and the masses will struggle in an impoverished wasteland.
①A different and not mutually exclusive 3holds that the future will be a wasteland of a different sort,one4 by purposelessness:Without jobs to give their lives 5,people will simply become lazy and depressed.②6,today’s unemployed don’t seem to be having a great time.③One Gallup poll found that 20 percent of Americans who have been unemployed for at least a year report having depression,double the rate for 7 Americans.④Also,some research suggests that the 8 for rising rates of mortality,mental-health problems,and addiction 9 poorly-educated,middle-aged people is shortage of well-paid jobs.⑤Perhaps this is why many 10 the agonizing dullness of a jobless future.
①But it doesn’t 11 follow from findings like these that a world without work would be filled with unease.②Such visions are based on the 12 of being unemployed in a society built on the concept of employment.③In the 13 of work,a society designed with other ends in mind could 14 strikingly different circumstances for the future of labor and leisure.④Today,the 15 of work may be a bit overblown.⑤“Many jobs are boring,degrading,unhealthy,and a waste of human potential,”says John Danaher,a lecturer at the National University of Ireland in Galway.
①These days,because leisure time is relatively 16 for most workers,people use their free time to counterbalance the intellectual and emotional 17 of their jobs.②“When I come home from a hard day’s work,I often feel 18,”Danaher says,adding,“In a world in which I don’t have to work,I might feel rather different”—perhaps different enough to throw himself 19 a hobby or a passion project with the intensity usually reserved for 20 matters.
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