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20xx 年考研英语二真题及答案解析
20xx 年考研英语二
Section 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 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 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 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
20xx 年考研英语二真题及答案解析
Americans. Also , some research suggests that 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 dullness of a jobless future.
But it doesn a world without are based on the
’t 11 follow from findings like these that
work would be filled with unease. Such visions 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 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
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