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1、Section Ⅰ Use of EnglishDirections:Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C, or Don the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points).People have speculated for centuries about a future without work,.Today is no different, withacademics, writers
2、, and activists once again_1_ warning that technology is replacing humanworkers. Some imagine that the coming work-free world will be defined by_2_ inequality: A fewwealthy people will own all the capital, and the masses will struggle in an impoverished wasteland.A differen
3、t and not mutually exculsive _3_ holds that the future will be a wasteland of a differentsort, one _4_by purposelessness: Without jobs to give their lives _5_, people will simply becomelazy and depressed. _6_, today’s unemployed don’t seem to be having a great time. One Gal
4、luppoll found that 20 percent of Americans who have been unemployed for at least a year reporthaving 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-educat
5、ed,middle-aged people is a shortage of well-paid jobs. Another study shows that people are oftenhappier at work than in their free time. Perhaps this is why many _10_ about the agonizingdullness of a jobless future.But it doesn’t _11_ follow from findings like these that a
6、worldwithout work would be filled with malaise. Such visions are based on the_12_of beingunemployed in a society built on the concept of employment. In the _13_ of work, a societydesigned with other ends in mind could _14_ strikingly different circumstances for the future o
7、flabor 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 theNational University of Ireland in Galway who has written about a world without work. “
8、Globalsurveys find that the vast majority of people are unhappy at work. ”These da
