2017年考研英语二试题及答案.docx

2017年考研英语二试题及答案跨考教育英语教研室Section I Use of EnglishDirections：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）,todays unemployed dont 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 doesnt_____（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 circumstanced 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）