考研英语(二)真题2017年-附答案解析.doc

考研英语(二)真题2017年 Section Ⅰ Use of English Directions: ? ?Read the following text. Choose the best word (s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET. People have speculated for centuries about a future without work. Today is no different, with academics, writers, and activists once again ?1 ? that technology is replacing human workers. Some imagine that the coming work-free world will be defined by ?2 ?. A few wealthy people will own all the capital, and the masses will struggle in an impoverished wasteland. ? ?A different and not mutually exclusive ?3 ? holds that the future will be a wasteland of a different sort, one ?4 ? by purposelessness: Without jobs to give their lives ?5 ?, people will simply become lazy and depressed. ?6 ?, today's unemployed don't seem to be having a great time. One Gallup poll found that 20 percent of Americans who have been 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 is shortage of well-paid jobs. Perhaps this is why many ?10 ? the agonizing dullness of a jobless future. ? ?But it doesn't ?11 ? follow from findings like these that a world without work would be filled with unease. Such visions are based on the ?12 ? of being unemployed in a society built on the concept of employment. In the ?13 ? of work, a society designed with other ends in mind could ?14 ? strikingly different circumstances for the future of labor and 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 lecturer at the National University of Ireland in Galway. ? ?These days, because leisure time is relatively ?16 ? for most workers, people use their free time to counterbalance the intellectual and emotional ?17 ? of their j