Questions 26 to 35 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 __26__ aside by the mechanical loom. Over the past 30 years the digital revolution has __27__ 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 __28__ . Although innovation kills some jobs, it creates new and better ones, as a more __29__ society becomes richer and its wealthier inhabitants demand more goods and services. A hundred years ago one in three American workers was __30__ on a farm. Today less than 2% of them produce far more food. The millions freed from the land were not rendered __31__, but found better-paid work as the economy grew more sophisticated. Today the pool of secretaries has __32__, 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 __33__ 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 __34__ will feel like a tornado (旋风)，hitting the rich world first, but __35__ sweeping through poorer countries too. No government is prepared for it.
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O) withdrawn
答案解析：
26. N根据“hand weavers”以及“by the mechanical loom”，可知手工织布工被机械织布机取代了，也就是被挤到了一边，“swept aside”表示“把…挤到一边;摒弃”，所以选N。
27. B根据后文 "many of the mid-skill jobs... have been dispensed with" ，可知，数字革命让许多中等技能的就业岗位不复存在，所以选B displaced (取代)。
28. I根据前文 "technological progress has made the world a better place" (技术进步让世界变得更美好) 和后文 "a more... society becomes richer" (一个更...的社会变得更富裕)，可知这种颠覆是经济繁荣”上升过程中的自然部分。所以选 prosperity。
29. H根据后文 "becomes richer" (变得更富裕)，可知一个社会之所以能变得更富有，是因为其生产力”提高了。"productive" 意为多产的，生产力高的”，符合逻辑。
30. C根据句意 "one in three American workers was... on a farm" (三分之一的美国工人...在农场里)，可知此处描述的是被雇佣”的状态。"be employed in" 意为在...领域工作”，所以选 employed。
31. F 根据后文 "but found better-paid work" (但找到了薪水更高的工作)，可知此处需要一个与找到工作”相反的词，表示那些离开土地的人并没有变得失业”。所以选 jobless。
32. M根据后文 "but there are ever more computer programmers and web designers" (但有越来越多的计算机程序员和网页设计师)，可知秘书这个群体的规模已经缩小”了。所以选 shrunk。
33. A 根据前文 "dislocating effects of technology may make themselves evident faster" (技术的破坏性效应可能显现得更快)，可知此处需要一个与 effects (负面效应) 相对的词，表示技术的好处”显现得较慢。所以选 benefits。
34. E 根据后文 "will feel like a tornado" (感觉会像一场龙卷风)，可知此处需要一个词来概括技术带来的巨大冲击力”。"impact" 意为影响，冲击”，符合语境。
35. D根据前文 "hitting the rich world first" (首先冲击富裕国家)，可知此处需要一个副词来表示这种冲击最终”也会席卷贫穷国家。所以选 eventually。
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