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2015
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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。
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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
Passage Two
Questions 61-65
are based on the following passage.
Some of the
world
’
s most significant
problems never hit example comes from
agriculture. Food riots and hunger make
news. But the trend lying behind these matters is
rarely
talked about. This is the
decline in the growth in yields of some of
the world’s major crops.A new
study by the University of Minnesota
and McGill University in Montreal looks at where,
and how
far, this decline is occurring.
The
authors take a vast number of data points for the
four most important crops: rice, wheat
corn
and
soybeans(
大豆
).
They
find
that
on
between
24%
and
39%
of
all
harvested
areas,
the
improvement in yields that tood place
before the 1980s slowed down in the 1990s and
2000s.
There are two worrying features of the
slowdown. One is that it has been particularly
sharp in
the
world
’
s most
populous(
人口多的
) countries,
India and China. Their ability to feed themselves
has
been
an
important
source
of
relative
stability
both
within
the
countries
and
on
world
food
markets.
That
self-sufficiency
cannot
be
taken
for
granted
if
yields
continue
to
slow
down
or
reverse.
Second, yield growth has been lower in
wheat and rice than in corn and soyabeans. This is
problematic because wheat and rice are
more important as foods, accounting for around
half of all
calories consumed. Corn and
soyabeans are more important as feed grains. The
authors note that
“we have
preferentially focused our crop improvement
efforts on feeding an
imals and cars
rather
than on crops that feed people
and are the basis of food security in much of the
world.”
The report qualifies the
more optimistic findings of another new paper
which suggests that
the world will not
have to dig up a lot more land for farming in
order to feed 9 billion people in
2050,
as the Food and Agriculture Organisation has
argued.
Instead, it says, thanks to slowing
population growth, land currently ploughted up for
crops
might be able to
revert(
回返
)to forest or
wilderness. This could happen. The trouble is that
the
forecast assumes continued
improvements in yields, which may not actually
happen.
注意
:
此部分试题请在答题卡
2
上作答。
does the
author try to draw attention to?
.
.
A)Food riots and hunger in the world.
C)The decline of the grain yield growth.
B)News headlines in the leading media.
D)The food supply in populous countries.
does the author mention India and China in
particular?
A)Their self-sufficiency is vital to
the stability of world food markets.
B)Their food
yields have begun to decrease sharply in recent
years.
C)Their big populations are causing
worldwide concerns.
D)Their food self-
sufficiency has been taken for granted.
does
the
new
study
by
the
two
universities
say
about
recent
crop
improvement
efforts?
A)They fail to produce the
same remarkable results as before the 1980s.
B)They contribute a lot to the
improvement of human food production.
C)They play a
major role in guaranteeing the food security of
the world.
D)They focus more on the increase of
animal feed than human food grains.
does the Food
and Agriculture Organisation say about world food
production in the
coming decades?
A)The growing population will greatly
increase the pressure on world food supplies.
B)The optimistic prediction about food
production should be viewed with caution.
C)The slowdown of the growth in yields
of major food crops will be reversed.
D)The world
will be able to feed its population without
increasing farmland.
does the author view the
argument of the Food and Agriculture Organisation?
A)It is built on the findings of a new
study.
B)It is based on a doubtful assumption.
C)It is backed by strong evidence.
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