Directions:In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
The things people make, and the way they make them, determine how cities grow and decline, and influence how empires rise and fall. So, any disruption to the world’s factories 26_____. And that disruption is surely coining. Factories are being digitised, filled with new sensor and new computers to make them quicker, more 27_____, and more efficient.
Robots are breaking free from the cages that surround them, learning new skills and new ways of working. And 3D printers have long 28_____ a world where you can make anything, anywhere, from a computerised design. That vision is 29_____ closer to reality. These forces will lead to cleaner factories, producing better goods at lower prices, personalised to our individual needs and desires. Humans will be 30_____ many of the dirty, repetitive, and dangerous jobs that have long been a 31_____ of factory life.
Greater efficiency 32_____ means fewer people can do the same work. Yet factory bosses in many developed countries are worried about a lack of skilled human workers—and see 33_____ and robots as a solution. But economist Helena Leurent says this period of rapid change in manufacturing is a 34_____ opportunity to make the world a better place. “Manufacturing is the one system where you have got the biggest source of innovation, the biggest source of economic growth, and the biggest source of great jobs in the past. You can see it changing. That’s an opportunity to 35_____ that system differently, and if we can, it will have tremendous significance.”
A) automation B) concerns
C) enormously D) fantastic
E) fascinated F) feature
G) flexible H) inevitably
I) interaction J) leaning
K) matters L) moving
M) promised N) shape
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26K 本题考查的是动词。句意：“因此，对世界上工厂的任何破坏都有很重要的意义。”空格处缺动词。意为“有关系，要紧”，与题意相符，故选K。
27G 本题考查的是形容词。句意：“工厂正在被数字化，到处都在使用新的传感器和新的计算机，工厂运转得更快，更灵活，更有效率。”根据空格前的more判定，空格处缺形容词。意为“灵活的”，与题意相符，故选G。
28M 本题考查的是动词。句意：“长期以来，3D打印机使一个可以通过计算机设计在任何地方制造任何东西的世界有希望存在。”根据空格后的判定，空格处缺动词，意为“许诺；有指望”与题意相符，故选M。
29L 本题考查的是动词。句意：“这一愿景正越来越接近现实。”根据空格前的is判定，空格处缺动词，意为“移动”，与题意相符，故选L。
30O 本题考查的是动词。句意：“人类将免于许多肮脏、重复和危险的工作”。根据空格前的will判定，空格处缺动词。意为“免于，使避免”，与题意相符，故选O。
31F 本题考查的是名词。句意：“长期以来这样的工作一直是工厂生活的特征。”根据空格前的a判定，空格处缺名词。意为“特征”，与题意相符，故选F。
32H 本题考查的是副词。句意：“更高的效率不可避免地意味着更少的人能做同样的工作。”根据空格后的means判定，句子不缺少主体成分，空格处缺副词。意为“不可避免地”，与题意相符，故选H。
33A 本题考查的是名词。句意：“然而，许多发达国家的工厂老板担心会缺少熟练的人力工人，并将自动化和机器人视为解决问题的方案。”根据空格前的see判定，空格处缺名词。意为“自动化”，与题意相符，故选A。
34D 本题考查的是形容词。句意：“但经济学家海伦娜·洛伦特(Helena Leurent)表示，制造业的这一快速变化时期是一个极好的机遇，可以让世界变得更美好。”根据空格前的a和空格后的opportunity判定，空格处缺形容词。意为“极好的”，与题意相符，故选D。
35N 本题考查的是动词。句意：“这是一个塑造这一体系的机会，如果我们能够成功做到，将有巨大的意义。”根据空格前的to判定，空格处缺动词。意为“形成，塑造”，与题意相符，故选N。
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