2015年6月英语六级选词填空原文及答案:科技创新对就业的影响
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2015年6月大学英语六级考试阅读的section
A选词填空，要求从15个题目中选出10个词填到文章中对应的空格部分。文章主题是论述科技的进步对于就业的影响。文都教育搜集整理了原题及答案，供学习参考：
题目：
Innovation, the elixir (灵丹妙药) of
progress, has always cost people
their jobs. In the Industrial
Revolution hand weavers were
___36___ aside by the mechanical
loom. Over the past 30
years the digital revolution has
___37___ many of the mid-skill
jobs that underpinned
br>20th-century middle-class life. Typists,
ticketagents, bank tellers and
many production-line jobs have
been dispensed with,just as the
weavers were.
For those who
believe that technological progress
has made the world a
better place, such disruption is
a natural part of rising
___38___. Although innovation kills
some jobs, it creates new
and better ones, as a
more ___39___ society becomes
richer and its wealthier
inhabitants demand more goods
and services. A hundred years
ago one in three American
workers was ___40___ on a
farm. Today less than 2%
of them produce far more
food. The millions freed from
the land were not rendered
___41___, but found better-paid
work as the economy grew
more sophisticated. Today the
pool of secretaries has___42___,
but there are ever more
computer programmers and web
designers.
Optimism remains the
right starting-point, but for
workers the dislocating effects
of technology may make
themselves evident faster than
its ___43___. Even if new
jobs and wonderful products
emerge, in the short term
income gaps will widen, causing
huge social dislocation and
perhaps even changing politics.
Technology's ___44___ will feel
like a tornado (旋风), hitting
the rich world first, but
___45___ sweeping through poorer
countries too. No government is
prepared for it.
参考答案：
36. N swept
37. B displaced
38. I prosperity
39. H productive
40. C employed
41. F jobless
42. M shrunk
43. A benefits
44. E impact
45. D eventually
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