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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