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上海华是学院，MBA/MPA/MEM/MPAcc 辅导 网址： 2017 年管理类专业学位联考英语真题 （上海华是学院英语权威名师董宏乐、王力、查国生解析） Selection 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 ANSWER SHEET. (10 points) People have speculated for centuries about a future without work, and today is no different, with academics, writers, and activists once again 1 that technology is 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, less paranoid, 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 having a 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 addiction 9 poorly-educated, middle-aged people is a shortage of well-paid jobs. Another study shows that people are often happier at work than in their free time. 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 malaise. Such visions are based on the 12 of being unemployed in a society built on the concept of employment. In the