- 完形填空
題干:Peoplehavespeculatedforcenturiesaboutafuturewithoutwork.Todayisnodifferent,withacademics,writers,andactivistsonceagain(1)thattechnologybereplacinghumanworkers.Someimaginethatthecomingwork-freeworldwillbedefinedby(2)。Afewwealthypeoplewillownallthecapital,andthemasseswillstruggleinanimpoverishedwasteland.Adifferentandnotmutuallyexclusive(3)holdsthatthefuturewillbeawastelandofadifferentsort,one(4)bypurposelessness:Withoutjobstogivetheirlives(5),peoplewillsimplybecomelazyanddepressed.(6),today’sunemployeddon’tseemtobehavingagreattime.OneGalluppollfoundthat20percentofAmericanswhohavebeenunemployedforatleastayearreporthavingdepression,doubletheratefor(7)Americans.Also,someresearchsuggeststhatthe(8)forrisingratesofmortality,mental-healthproblems,andaddicting(9)poorly-educatedmiddle-agedpeopleisshortageofwell-paidjobs.Perhapsthisiswhymany(10)theagonizingdullnessofajoblessfuture.Butitdoesn’t(11)followfromfindingslikethesethataworldwithoutworkwouldbefilledwithunease.Suchvisionsarebasedonthe(12)ofbeingunemployedinasocietybuiltontheconceptofemployment.Inthe(13)ofwork,asocietydesignedwithotherendsinmindcould(14)strikinglydifferentcircumstancedforthefutureoflaborandleisure.Today,the(15)ofworkmaybeabitoverblown.“Manyjobsareboring,degrading,unhealthy,andawasteofhumanpotential,”saysJohnDanaher,alecturerattheNationalUniversityofIrelandinGalway.Thesedays,becauseleisuretimeisrelatively(16)formostworkers,peopleusetheirfreetimetocounterbalancetheintellectualandemotional(17)oftheirjobs.“WhenIcomehomefromahardday’swork,Ioftenfeel(18),”Danahersays,adding,“InaworldinwhichIdon’thavetowork,Imightfeelratherdifferent”—perhapsdifferentenoughtothrowhimself(19)ahobbyorapassionprojectwiththeintensityusuallyreservedfor(20)matters.
題目:(15) - A 、model
- B 、practice
- C 、virtue
- D 、hardship

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參考答案【正確答案:C】
over blown含義:吹散 吹倒 表貶義。后面的內(nèi)容“Many jobs are boring, degrading,unhealthy, and a waste of human potential,” says John Danaher, a lecturer at the National University of Ireland in Galway.是對這句話的進一步解釋,結(jié)合前后的上下文語義理解,應(yīng)選擇virtue,其他選項均排除。因此C為正確答案。
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