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2017年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试管理类专业硕士学位联考英语（二）真题及校正版答案SectionI 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)　People have speculated for centuries about a future without work .Today is no different, with academics, writers, and activists once again 1 ?that technology be replacing human workers. Some imagine that the coming work-free world will be defined by 2 ?. A few wealthy people will own all the capital, and the masses will struggle in an impoverished wasteland.　A different and not mutually exclusive 3 ?holds that the future will be a wasteland of a different sort, one?4? by purposelessness: Without jobs to give their lives 5 ?, people will simply become lazy and depressed.? 6 ?, today’s unemployed don’t seem to be havinga great time. One 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. Also, some research suggests that the?8 ?for rising rates of mortality, mental-health problems, and addicting?9 ?poorly-educated middle-aged people is shortage of well-paid jobs. Perhaps this is why many?10 ?the agonizing dullness of a jobless future.　But it doesn’t? 11? follow from findings like these that a world without work would be filled with unease. Such visions are based on the?12 of being unemployed in a society built on the concept of employment. In the?13?of work, a society designed with other ends in mind could 14? strikingly different circumstanced for the future of labor and leisure. Today, the? 15? of work may be a bit overblown.“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.　These days, because leisure time is relatively?16?for most workers, people use their free time to counterbalance the intellectual and emotional ?17 ?of their job