最新考研英语真题:《英语二》(完整版)
考研 英语 真题 : 《 英语 二 》 ( 完整 版 ) 2017 年 全国 硕士 研究 生 入学 统一 考试 英语 ( 二 ) Section I Use of EnglishDirections : Read the following text . Choose the best word ( s ) for each numbered blank and markA , B , C or D on the ANSWER SHEET . ( 10 points ) People have speculated for centuries about a future without work . Today is nodifferent , with academics , writers , and activists once again 1 that technology bereplacing human workers . Some imagine that the coming work - free world will bedefined by 2 . A few wealthy people will own all the capital , and the masses willstruggle in an impoverished wasteland . A different and not mutually exclusive 3 holds that the future will be a wasteland ofa different sort , one 4 by purposelessness : Without jobs to give their lives 5 , peoplewill simply become lazy and depressed . 6 , todays unemployed dont seem to behaving a great time . One Gallup poll found that 20 percent of Americans who havebeen unemployed for at least a year report having depression , double the rate for 7 Americans . Also , some research suggests that the 8 for rising rates of mortality , mental - health problems , and addicting 9 poorly - educated middle - aged people isshortage of well - paid jobs . Perhaps this is why many 10 the agonizing dullness of ajobless future . But it doesnt 11 follow from findings like these that a world without work would befilled with unease . Such visions are based on the 12 of being unemployed in a societybuilt on the concept of employment . In the 13 of work , a society designed with otherends in mind could 14 strikingly different circumstanced for the future of labor and 最新 考研 英语 真题 : 《 英语 二 》 ( 完整 版 ) leisure . Today , the 15 of work may be a bit overblown . “ Many jobs are boring , degrading , unhealthy , and a waste of human potential , ” says John Danaher , a lecturerat the National University of Ireland in Galway . These days , because leisure time is relatively 16 for most workers , people use theirfree time to counterbalance the intellectual and emotional 17 of their jobs . “ When Icome home from a hard days work , I often feel 18 , ” Danaher says , adding , “ In aworld in which I dont have to work , I might feel rather different ” perhaps differentenough to throw himself