2017年6月大学英语六级考试真题及答案解析(全三套).pdfVIP

Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage. Innovation （ Innovation [英] [??n?u?vei??n]n.改革，创新；新观念；新发明；新设 施） , the elixir (灵丹妙药 ) of progress, has always cost people their jobs. In the Industrial Revolution hand weavers （weaver [英] [?wi:v? ][ 美] [?wiv? ]n. 织工，编织者） were ___36___ aside by the mechanical loom （纺 织机） . Over the past 30 years the digital revolution has ___37___ many of the mid-skill j obs that supported 20th-century middle-class life. Typists, ticket agents, bank tellers （出纳员） 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, s uch disruption （[英] [d ?sr?p?n] [美] [d ?sr?p?n] n. 分裂，瓦解； 破裂，毁坏； 中 断） is a natural part o f rising ___38___. Although innovation kills some jobs, it creates new and better ones, as a more ___39___ society becomes richer and its wealthier inhabitants（inhabitant [英] [in?h?bi t?nt][ 美] [ ?n?h?b?t?nt]n.居民，住户；） 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 b etter-paid work as the economy grew more sophisticated.( sophisticated [ 英 ] [s??fistikeiti[ 美] [s 2015 年 6 月英语六级真题及答案（三套全） 第- 73 -页，共一百〇五页 共 ??f ?st??ket?d]adj.复杂的；精致的； ) Today the pool of secretaries has___42___, but there are ever m ore computer programmers and web designers. Optimism remains the right starting-point, but for workers the dislocating （dislocate [英] [?d?sl?ke?t] [ 美] [?d?slo?ke?t] vt. 使关节脱位； 使（交通，事务等）混乱 ） effects of technology may make themselves evident faster than its ___43___. Even if new jobs and wonderful products emerge, in the short term income gaps will widen, causing huge social dislocation and perha