文档介绍：2015年6月英语六级考试试卷(卷一)
Section A
Directions:In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
Question 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.
Innovation, the elixir(灵丹妙药)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 revolution has(37)_____ many of the mid-skill jobs that supported 20th-century middle-class X. Typists, ticket agents, bank tellers and many production-line jobs have been dispensed with, just as the weavers were.
For these who believe that technological progress has made the world a better place, such X is a natural part of rising(38)_____. Although innovation kills some jobs, it creates new and better ones, as a more(39)_____ society es 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 million freed for