問題詳情
II. Sentence Structure: Choose the best answer from the box below for each blank in thepassage. 16-20
Innovation, the elixir of progress, has always cost people their jobs. In the Industrial Revolutionartisan weavers 16 by the mechanical loom. Over the past 30 years the digital revolution 17that underpinned 20th-century middle-class life. Typists, ticket agents, bank tellers and manyproduction-line jobs have been dispensed with, just as the weavers were. For those who believe that technological progress that made the world a better place, such churnis a natural part of rising prosperity. Although innovation kills some jobs, 18 , as a more productivesociety becomes richer and its wealthier inhabitants demand more goods and services. A hundredyears ago one in three American workers was employed on a farm. Today, 19 produce far morefood. The millions freed from the land were not consigned to joblessness but found better-paid work20 . Today the pool of secretaries has shrunk, but there are ever more computer programmers andweb designers. ---------------------------------------------
(A) as the economy grew more sophisticated
(B) were swept aside
(C) less than 2 % of them
(D) it creates new and better ones
(E) has displaced many of the mid-skill jobs
【題組】 16
參考答案
答案：B
難度：適中0.558824
統計：A(3),B(19),C(4),D(1),E(6)