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

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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 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