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大学英语六级模拟试题（三） Part?II?Reading?Comprehension(35?minutes)?Directions:?There?are?4?reading?passages?in?this?part.?Eachpassage?is?followed?by?some?questions?or?unfinishedstatements.?For?each?of?them?there?are?four?choices?markedA),?B),?C)and?D).?You?should?decide?on?the?best?choice?andmark?the?corresponding?letter?on?the?Answer?Sheet?with?asingle?line?through?the?centre. Passage?1　Opinion?polls?are?now?beginning?to?show?that,?whoever?is?to?blame?and?whatever?happensfrom?now?on,?high?unemployment?is?probably?here?to?say.This?means?we?shall?have?to?findways?of?sharing?the?available?employment?more?widely.　　??But?we?need?to?go?further.?We?must?ask?some?fundamental?questions?about?the?future?work.Should?we?continue?to?treat?employment?as?the?norm??Should?we?not?rather?encourage?manyways?for?self-respecting?people?to?work??Should?we?not?create?conditions?in?which?many?of?uscan?work?for?ourselves,?rather?than?for?an?employer??Should?we?not?aim?to?revive?thehousehold?and?the?neighborhood,?as?well?as?the?factory?and?the?office,?as?centers?ofproduction?and?work?　??The?industrial?age?has?been?the?only?period?of?human?history?in?which?most?peoples?workhas?taken?the?form?of?jobs.?The?industrial?age?may?now?becoming?to?an?end,?and?some?of?thechanges?in?work?patterns?which?it?brought?may?have?to?be?reverseD.This?seems?a?dauntingthought.?But,?in?fact,?it?could?offer?the?prospect?of?a?better?future?for?work.?Universalemployment,?as?its?history?shows,?has?not?meant?economic?freedom.　　Employment?became?widespread?when?the?enclosures?of?the?17th?and?18th?centuries?mademany?people?dependent?on?paid?work?by?depriving?them?of?the?use?of?the?land,?and?thus?ofthe?means?to?provide?a?living?for?themselves.?Then?the?factory?system?destroyed?the?cottageindustries?and?removed?work?from?peoples?homes.?Later,?as?transport?improved,?first?by?railand?then?by?road,?people?commuted?longer?distances?to?their?places?of?employment?until,eventually,?many?peoples?work?lost?all?connection?with?their?home?