2018年考研英语二真题 答案解析.docx

.WORD. 格式. 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 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 isno People have speculated for centuries about a future without work,.Today is different, with academics, writers, and activists once again_1_ warning thattechnology is replacing human different, with academics, writers, and activists once again_1_ warning that technology is replacing human workers. Some imagine that the coming work-free world will be defined by_2_ inequality: 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 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_Americans. Also, some research suggests that the _8_ for rising rates of mortality, mental-health problems, and addiction _9_ poorly-educated, middle-aged people is a shortage of well-paid jobs. Another study shows that people are often happier at work thanin well-paid jobs. Another study shows that people are often happier at work than their free time. Perhaps this is why many _10_ about the agonizing dullness ofa their free time. Perhaps this is why many _10_ about the agonizing dullness of jobless future.But 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 designed with other ends in mind