考研英语-试卷34_真题(含答案与解析).pdfVIP

考研英语-试卷 34 (总分 142, 做题时间 90 分钟) 1. Use of English 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. Enter the information age. Information is the raw material for many of the business activities shaping this new era, (1)_____ iron and steel were the **modities in the dawning of the industrial age.steel were the **modities in the dawning of the industrial age. This knowledge explosion is (3)_____ economic progress. The need to collect, analyze, **municate (4)_____ quantities of information is Spawning new products and services, creating jobs, and widening career opportunities. The information age is (5)_____ considered to be a phenomenon of the service sector of the economy, (6)_____ a product of heavy industry. Certainly, burgeoning information technologies are creating new capabilities (7)_____ knowledge-based service spheres. But changes just as dramatic are (8)_____ industry, giving people the opportunity to do challenging work in exciting new ways. Manufacturing is a full participant in the information age. From design (9)_____ production, the manufacturing process has long been in formation-intensive. It always has required **munication to describe (10)_____ goes into products and how to make them, Now, computer technology is giving factory managers new capability to gather all of this information and (11)_____ it to control production. **munications are producing error-**munication between the design office (12)_____ the factory, computer-aided design is enabling engineers to evaluate product performance and manufacturing process (13)_____ video displays, before resources **mitted to build and test prototypes. Techniques like these are bringing (14)_____ new advances in manufacturing productivity. Just as coal fueled the transformation to an industrial society, (15)_____ microelectronics is powering the ris