考研英语二真题.docx

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2017 年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试
英语（二）
（科目代码 204）
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2017年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语（二）试题
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 is no different, with academics, writers, and activists once again 1 that technology be
replacing human workers. Some imagine that the coming wor-free world will be defined by 2 . A few wealthy people will own all the capital, and the masses
will struggle in an impoverished wasteland.
A different and not mutually exclusive 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 , 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 addicting
9—poorly-educated middle-aged people is shortage of we-paid jobs. Perhaps this is why many 10 the agonizing dullness of a jobless future.
But it doesn ，11 follow from findings like these that a world without work would be filled with unease. 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 could 14 strikingly different
circumstanced for the future of labor and leisure. Today, the_15 of work m