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[研究生入学考试题库]考研英语(一)模拟135 Section Ⅰ Use of EnglishDirections: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET.  Nuclear bombs can destroy us. Facebook 1 our privacy. Artificial intelligence (AI) and robots can 2 us or, 3 , take our jobs. Synthetic biology and gene-editing have humans 4 God. Social media make us depressed: weve never been so connected 5 never so alone.  Those are just a few of the complaints 6 against technology. For most of human history, 7 , technology was mostly seen as a force for 8 . More people would 9 because of technical progress, from refrigeration to vaccination, than perish because of it, 10 deadly inventions such as gunpowder. Technology was viewed as the 11 of open inquiry and debate, and its advance was 12 welcomed. More was better.  Today a techlash is under way. It comes in many forms, but two 13 . First, a belief that web titans such as Facebook, Amazon and Google have grown too 14 ; and, second, a view that AI and algorithms are not transparent or accountable. Both concerns 15 the individual against potentially overwhelming power—of the company, the platform, the algorithm.  Take the web giants. They 16 a vast amount of data on their users. Much of this is 17 , from medical matters to political views. So protecting privacy is vital—yet many people have been shocked 18 revelations about the 19 of the information Facebook holds, and the companys relaxed approach to safeguarding it. That has further 20 fears about the platforms growing influence on society and politics. 1.A.excavatesB.underminesC.revealsD.protects答案:B[解析] 本文节选自The Economist(《经济学人》)，原文标题为Technology and Its Discontents(科技及其不满)。本文主要介绍了随着科技的发展，网络巨头收集数据的做法及程度令人担忧。第一、二段讲人们对科技的一些抱怨以及之前人们对科技的看法。第三段讲如今人们对科技的抵制。最后一段讲人们的担忧。 A．excav