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Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.Innovation, the elixir (灵丹妙药 ) of progress, has always cost people their jobs. In the Industrial Revolution hand weavers were ___ 36 ___aside by the mechanical loom. Over the past 30 years the digital revolution has ___ 37 ___ many of the mid-skill jobs that supported 20th-century middle-class life. Typists, ticket agents, bank tellers and many production-line jobs have been dispensed with, just as the weavers were.
For those who believe that technological progress has made the world a better place, such disruption is a natural part of rising___ 38___. Although innovation kills some jobs, it creates new and better ones, as a more ___ 39 ___ society becomes richer and its wealthier inhabitants demand more goods and services. A hundred years ago one in three American workers was ___ 40 ___ on a farm. Today less than 2% of them produce far more food. The millions freed from the land were not rendered ___ 41___, but found better- paid work as the economy grew more sophisticated. Today the pool of secretaries has ___42___, but there are ever more computer programmers and web designers.
Optimism remains the right starting-point, but for workers the dislocating effects of technology may make themselves evident faster than its ___ 43___. Even if new jobs and wonderful products emerge, in the short term income gaps will widen, causing huge social dislocation and perhaps even changing politics.
Technology's ___ 44 ___ will feel like a tornado (旋风), hitting the rich world first, but ___ 45 ___sweeping through poorer countries too. No government is prepared for it.______
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A. benefits
B. displaced
C. employed
D. eventually
E. impact
F. jobless
G. primarily
H. productive
I. prosperity
J. responsive
K. rhythm
L. sentiments
M. shrunk
N. swept
O. withdrawn
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