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1、2015 年 6 月大学英语六级考试阅读的 section A 选词填空，要求从 15 个题目中选出 10 个词 填到文章中对应的空格部分。 文章主题是论述科技的进步对于就业的影响。 文都教育搜集整 理了原题及答案，供学习参考： 题目： 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 year
2、s the digital revolution has _37_ many of the mid-skill jobs that underpinned 20th- century middle-class life. Typists, ticketagents, 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 b
3、etter 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
4、. 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
5、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. Technologys _44_
6、 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. 参考答案： 36. N swept 37. B displaced 38. I prosperity 39. H productive 40. C employed 41. F jobless 42. M shrunk 43. A benefits 44. E impact 45. D eventually
7、 Passage Two Questions 61-65 are based on the following passage. Some of the worlds most significant problems never hit headlines.One example comes from agriculture. Food riots and hunger make news. But the trend lying behind these matters is rarely talked about. This is the decline in the growth in
8、 yields of some of the worlds major crops.A new study by the University of Minnesota and McGill University in Montreal looks at where, and how far, this decline is occurring. The authors take a vast number of data points for the four most important crops: rice, wheat corn and soybeans(大豆). They find
9、 that on between 24% and 39% of all harvested areas, the improvement in yields that tood place before the 1980s slowed down in the 1990s and 2000s. There are two worrying features of the slowdown. One is that it has been particularly sharp in the world s most populous(人 口 多 的 ) countries, India and
10、China. Their ability to feed themselves has been an important source of relative stability both within the countries and on world food markets. That self-sufficiency cannot be taken for granted if yields continue to slow down or reverse. Second, yield growth has been lower in wheat and rice than in
11、corn and soyabeans. This is problematic because wheat and rice are more important as foods, accounting for around half of all calories consumed. Corn and soyabeans are more important as feed grains. The authors note that “we have preferentially focused our crop improvement efforts on feeding animals
12、 and cars rather than on crops that feed people and are the basis of food security in much of the world.” The report qualifies the more optimistic findings of another new paper which suggests that the world will not have to dig up a lot more land for farming in order to feed 9 billion people in 2050
13、, as the Food and Agriculture Organisation has argued. Instead, it says, thanks to slowing population growth, land currently ploughted up for crops might be able to revert(回返)to forest or wilderness. This could happen. The trouble is that the forecast assumes continued improvements in yields, which
14、may not actually happen. 注意:此部分试题请在答题卡 2 上作答。 61.What does the author try to draw attention to? A)Food riots and hunger in the world. C)The decline of the grain yield growth. B)News headlines in the leading media. D)The food supply in populous countries. 62.Why does the author mention India and Chin
15、a in particular? A)Their self-sufficiency is vital to the stability of world food markets. B)Their food yields have begun to decrease sharply in recent years. C)Their big populations are causing worldwide concerns. D)Their food self-sufficiency has been taken for granted. 63.What does the new study
16、by the two universities say about recent crop improvement efforts? A)They fail to produce the same remarkable results as before the 1980s. B)They contribute a lot to the improvement of human food production. C)They play a major role in guaranteeing the food security of the world. D)They focus more on the increase of animal feed than human food grains. 64.What does the Food and Agriculture Organisation say about world food production in the coming decades
