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2017年考研英语二 SectionI UseofEnglish Directions Read thefollowing text. Choose the best word (s) for each numbered ： blankandmarkA,B, CorD on theANSWERSHEET. (10points) People have speculated for centuries about a future without work.Today is no different with academics writers and activistsonce again 1 that technology is ， ， ， replacing human workers. Some imagine that the coming work-free world will be definedby 2 .Afew wealthy peoplewill own all the capital and themasseswill ， strugglein an impoverishedwasteland.. A different and not mutually exclusive 3 holds that the future will be a wasteland ofadifferent sort one 4 bypurposelessness Withoutjobstogivetheir ， ： lives 5 ，peoplewill simplybecomelazy and depressed. 6 today’sunemployed don’t seem to be having a great time. One Gallup poll found that 20 percent of Americanswho 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 ， risingratesofmortality mental-healthproblems and addicting 9 poorly-educated ， ， middle-agedpeople is shortage ofwell-paidjobs.Perhapsthisiswhy many 10 the agonizingdullnessofajoblessfuture. But it doesn’t 11 follow from findings like these that a world without work wouldbe filledwithunease.Suchvisionsarebased on the 12 ofbeingunemployed 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.