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2017考研英语二真题+答案（缺少完型填空 1-20） Section I Use of English Directions: Read the follow ing text. Choose the best word(s) for each nu mbered bla nk and mark A, B, C, or D on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 poi nts). People have speculated for cen turies about a future without work,.Today is no differe nt, with academics, writers, and activists once again_1_ warni ng that tech no logy is replaci ng huma n workers. Some imagi ne that the coming work-free world will be defi ned by_2_ in equality: A few wealthy people will own all the capital, and the masses will struggle in an impoverished wasteland. A different and not mutually exculsive _3_ holds that the future will be a wasteland of a different sort, one _4_by purposeless ness: 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 perce nt of America ns who have bee n un employed for at least a year report hav ing depressi on, double the rate for _7_America ns. Also, some research suggests that the _8_ for rising rates of mortality, men tal-health problems, and addict ion _9_ poorly-educated, middle-aged people is a shortage of well-paid jobs. Another study shows that people are often happier at work than in their free time. Perhaps this is why many _10_ about the agonizing dullness of a jobless future. But it doesn t _11_ follow from findings like these that a world without work would be filled with malaise. Such visions are based on the_12_of being unemployed in a society built on the concept of employment. In the _13_ of work, a society desig ned with other ends in mind could _14_ strik in gly differe nt circumsta nces 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 squandering of human potential, ” says John Danaher, a lecturer at the Nati onal Un iversity of Irela nd in Galway who has writte n about a world without wor