2015六级第二套选词填空解析

六级第二套

Part III

Reading Comprehension

(40 minutes)

Section A

Directions:

In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word

for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage

through carefully

before making

your choices. Each

choice

in

the

bank

is

identified

by

a

letter.

Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on

Answer Sheet 2

with a single line through

the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.

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

supported

20th-century

middle-class

life.

Typists,

ticket

agents,

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.

A) benefits

B) displaced

C) employed

D) eventually

E) impact

F) jobless

G) primarily

H) productive

I) prosperity

J) responsive

K) rhythm

L) sentiments

M) shrunk

N) swept

O) withdrawn

Part III

Reading Comprehension

题源揭秘

本文选自《经济学人》

2014

年

1

月

18

日刊载的一篇题为

Technology

and

Jobs

Coming to an Office Near You

的文章。

本文主 要探讨了创新和技术进步对人们的工作的影响。

科技创新是近年来六级考试的热门话题， 考生应高度重视。

文章大意

文章阐述了创新给人们的工作带来的变化。

< br>创新推动了技术进步，

从而使很多传

统的工作被新的工作 所取代。

技术引起的混乱效应要比其带来的益处更容易显现出来，

它最

终会影响整个世界。

全文翻译

创新这一进步的灵丹妙药总 是让人们

丢掉

工作。在工业革命

中，手 工织布工被机械织布机（

36

）抛到一边。在过去的

年里，

数字革命已经

（

37

）

取代了很多需要中等技术的工 作，

这些工作维

持着

20

世纪中产阶级的生活。打字员、票务员、银行出纳员以及

很多生产线工作职位 已经

不再被需要

，正如那些织布工一样。

对于那些认为技术进步使世界变成了一个更好的地方的人来

说，这种

混乱

是日益（

38

一些工作，但是它创造了新的、更 好的工作，因为一个更（

39

）高

效的 社会变得更富裕，

而且它的较富有的居民需要更多的商品和服

务 。

100

年前，三分之一的美国工人（

40

）受雇于农场。如今他们

当中不到

2%

的人生产出多得多的食物。数百万从土地上

被解放

出

来的美国工人并没有

处于

（

41

）

失业的

< br>状态

，

而是找到了薪酬更高

的工 作，

因为经济变得更发达。

如今秘书

备 用人员

已经

（

42

）

减少，

但是计算机程序员和网页设计师却比以往任何时候 都多。

乐观主义仍然是正确的起点，

但是对工人们来说，

技术引起的

混乱效应或许会比它的