文档介绍:6月大学英语六级考试阅读section A选词填空,规定从15个题目中选出10个词填到文章中相应空格某些。文章主题是阐述科技进步对于就业影响。文都教诲收集整顿了原题及答案,供学****参照:
题目:
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 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