2017考研英语(二)真题完整版及参考答案
2017考研英语二真题完整版及参考答案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. （10 points）
People have speculated for centuries about a future without work .Today is no different, with academics, writers, and activists once again 1 that technology be 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’t11 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 could14 strikingly different circumstanced for the future of labor and leisure. Today, the15 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 relatively16 for most workers, people use their free time to counterbalance the intellectual and emotional17 of their jobs. “When I come home from a hard day’s work, I often feel18 ,” Danaher says, adding, “In a world in which I don’t have to work, I might feel rather different”—perhaps different enough to throw himself19 a hobby or a passion project with the intensity usually reserved for20 matters.
1. boasting denying warning ensuring
[答案] warning
2. inequality instability unreliability uncertainty
[答案] inequality
3. policy guideline resolution prediction
[答案] prediction
4. characterized divided balanced measured
[答案] characterized
5. wisdom meaning glory freedom
[答案] meaning
6. Instead Indeed Thus Nevertheless
[答案] Indeed
7. rich urban working educated
[答案] working
8. explanation requirement compensation substitute
[答案] explanation
9. under beyond alongside among
[答案] among
10. leave behind make up worry about set aside
[答案] worry about
11. statistically occasionally necessarily economically
[答案] necessarily
12. chances downsides benefits principles
[答案] downsides
13. absence height face course
[答案] absence
14. disturb restore exclude yield
[答案] yield
15. model practice virtue hardship
[答案] virtue
16. tricky lengthy mysterious scarce
[答案] scarce
17. demands standards qualities threats
[答案] demands
18. ignored tired confused starved
[答案] tired
19. off against behind into
[答案] into
20. technological professional educational interpersonal
[答案] professional
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