題目： 篇一
Innovation, the elixir (靈丹妙藥) 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 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 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 (旋風), hitting the rich world first, but ___45___ sweeping through poorer countries too. No government is prepared for it.
參考答案： 篇二
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
⑴固定搭配 篇三
the Industrial Revolution, hand weavers were ____aside by the mechanical loom.
這個句子考查的就是片語的固定搭配了，這句話的含義是：在工業革命中，手織布工被紡織機_____.在後面這句話中，hand weavers是主語，were ____aside是謂語動詞，而且是表示被動的。所以填在橫線處的詞，既要是一個表示被動的詞，又要和aside構成片語，且符合句子的含義。Swept是sweep的過去式，sweep aside表示“把。移到一邊”的含義。這句話講的是工業革命中，機器生產代替工場手工業，把手織布工取代，放到一邊的事情，所以swept是正確選項。
⑵上下文語境 篇四
the past years, the digital revolution has _____ many of the mid-skilled jobs that supported 20th-century middle class st, ticket agents, bank tellers and many production-line jobs have been dispensed with, just as the weavers were.
這一段話主要講述了數字化革命代替了許多生產線上工人的工作。從這個語境可以看出，前面的一句話和後面是承接的關係，因為並無轉折。在後面一句話中談到，打字員、訂票員和其他的生產線上的工人，都和手織布工一樣被取代了。由於兩句話之間是承接、並列的關係，那麼前面肯定也是說數字化革命取代了一些人的工作。所以，此處空格處缺的是一個動詞，和has一起構成謂語動詞，且表示“取代”的含義，在所有的已知詞彙中，只有displaced符合條件。
從上面的分析我們可以看出，備考大學英語六級不僅僅是背詞彙那麼簡單，在做題的時候除了必要的詞彙之外，我們還要有紮實的語法基本功，同時要學會融會貫通，靈活運用上下文的各種線索來幫助解題。只要平時一步一個腳印的穩紮穩打，文都英語老師相信，你們一定可以獲得這場戰爭的勝利！
年6月六級選詞填空重點詞彙彙總 篇五
prosperity n. 繁榮，成功
displaced adj. 無家可歸的，被取代的
responsive adj. 響應的；應答的；回答的
sentiment n. 感情；情緒；情操
shrunk v. 收縮
swept v. 掃除
withdrawn n. 取出，撤退
productive adj. 能生產的，富有成效的
今年的選詞填空題仍舊是大家所熟悉的小短文的形式，題材也是大家熟悉的社會生活類文章，主要講的是創新帶來的各種影響。命題者考查的角度主要分為以下幾個方面：
Passage Two 篇六
Questions 61-65 are based on the following passage.
Some of the world’s most significant problems never hit 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 yields of some of the world’s 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 impo()rtant crops: rice, wheat corn and soybeans(大豆). They find 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 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 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 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, 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 may not actually happen.