2015年6月大學英語六級考試閱讀的section A選詞填空，要求從15個題目中選出10個詞填到文章中對應(yīng)的空格部分。文章主題是論述科技的進步對于就業(yè)的影響。網(wǎng)校搜集整理了原題及答案，供學習參考：

　　題目：

　　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：

　　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