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银行校园招聘考试英语部分专项练习（七） Part I Reading Comprehension Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1. For questions 1-4, mark 　　Y （for YES） if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage;　　N （for NO） if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage; 　　NG （for NOT GIVEN） if the information is not given in the passage. For questions 5-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage. What Will We Do For Work 　　I believe that 90% of white-collar jobs in the U.S. will be either destroyed or altered beyond recognition in the next 10 to 15 years. Thats a catastrophic prediction, given that 90% of us are engaged in white-collar work of one sort or another. Even most manufacturing jobs these days are connected to such white-collar services as finance, human resources and engineering. 　　I talked to an old London loader some time back. He allowed that in 1970 it took 108 guys about five days to unload a timber ship. Then came containerization. The comparable task today takes eight folks one day. That is, a 98.5% reduction in man-days, from 540 total to just eight. 　　This time the productivity aims to reconstruct——make that deconstruct——the white-collar world. In fact, I see a five-sided movement that will bring to my apparently fantastic “90% in 10 years” prediction. 　　FIRST The destructive nature of the current flavor of competition, dotcom company. 　　Sure, most will fail. But the survivors will exert enormous pressure ?fast! ?on the Big Guys. When an Amazon or a Charles Schwab moves into your neighborhood, youve got moments to react. Or take king entrepreneur Jim Clark of Netscape fame. His latestfr venture, Healtheon/WebMD, intends to squeeze hundreds of billions of dollars of waste out of the health-care system. These new firms aim to create nothing less than havoc in the theaters in which they operate. 　　SECOND Enterpr