2017考研英语二真题及答案解析.pdf

2017 年考研英语二真题 SectionIUse ofEnglish Directions： Read the following text. Choose the best word (s) for each numbered blank and markA,B,CorD ontheANSWER SHEET.(10points) People have speculated for centuries about a future without work.Today is no different， with academics， writers， and activists once again 1that technology is replacing human workers. Some imagine that the coming work-free world will be defined by 2 .A few wealthy people will own allthe capital， andthemasseswill strugglein animpoverishedwasteland.. A different and not mutually exclusive 3 holds that the future will be a wasteland of a different sort，one4bypurposelessness：Withoutjobstogivetheir lives 5 ，peoplewill 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，doubletherate for 7Americans.Also，some research suggeststhat the 8 for rising rates of mortality ， mental-health problems ， and addicting9 poorly-educated middle-aged people is shortage of well-paid jobs. Perhaps this is why many 10 the agonizing dullnessof ajoblessfuture. But it doesn’t 11follow 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 circumstances for the future oflabor and leisure.Today，the 15 of workmay beabit overblown.“Manyjobsareboring， degrading， unhealthy， and awaste of humanpotential，” saysJohn Danaher，alecturer attheNationalUniversity ofIrelandin Galway. Thesedays， becauseleisuretime isrelatively 16for most workers， peopleusetheir free time to counterbalance the intellectual and emotional 17 of theirjobs.“When I come home from ahardday’swork，I often feel 18 ，”Danaher says