Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections: 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 1 . And that disruption is surely coming. Factories are being digitised, filled with new sensors and new computers to make them quicker, more 2 , 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 3 a world where you can make anything, anywhere, from a computerised design. That vision is 4 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 5 many of the dirty, repetitive, and dangerous jobs that have long been a 6 of factory life. Greater efficiency 7 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 8 and robots as a solution. But economist Helena Leurent says this period of rapid change in manufacturing is a 9 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 10 that system differently, and if we can, it will have tremendous significance.”A) automation F) feature K) mattersB) concerns G) flexible L) movingC) enormously H) inevitably M) promisedD) fantastic I) interaction N) shapeE) fascinated J) leaning O) spared
Reading Comprehension
Section A
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 1 . And that disruption is surely coming. Factories are being digitised, filled with new sensors and new computers to make them quicker, more 2 , 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 3 a world where you can make anything, anywhere, from a computerised design. That vision is 4 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 5 many of the dirty, repetitive, and dangerous jobs that have long been a 6 of factory life.
Greater efficiency 7 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 8 and robots as a solution. But economist Helena Leurent says this period of rapid change in manufacturing is a 9 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 10 that system differently, and if we can, it will have tremendous significance.”
A) automation F) feature K) matters
B) concerns G) flexible L) moving
C) enormously H) inevitably M) promised
D) fantastic I) interaction N) shape
E) fascinated J) leaning O) spared
题目解答
答案
1.K
2.G
3.M
4.L
5.O
6.F
7.H
8.A
9.D
10.N
解析
本题为阅读理解填空题，考查根据上下文选择恰当词汇的能力。解题核心在于：
- 理解段落主旨：文章围绕工业制造的数字化转型展开，涉及自动化、3D打印、机器人等技术对工厂发展的影响。
- 分析语境逻辑：通过上下文的修饰关系、固定搭配、语态变化等线索，锁定空格处所需词性及含义。
- 辨析近义词：需注意选项中同义词的细微区别，如automation（自动化）与interaction（互动）的适用场景。
第1空
关键句：any disruption to the world's factories 1.
逻辑分析：空格处需填动词，表示“影响”。matters（有重要性）最符合语境，强调工业生产中断的严重性。
第2空
关键句：make them quicker, more 2, and more efficient.*
逻辑分析：形容词修饰“工厂”，flexible（灵活的）与“更快、更高效”形成递进关系，体现技术升级的优势。
第3空
关键句：3D printers have long 3 a world where you can make anything, anywhere...
逻辑分析：动词需表达“承诺/实现”，promised（承诺）与后文“愿景逐渐实现”呼应。
第4空
关键句：That vision is 4 closer to reality.
逻辑分析：moving（接近）与“closer”形成固定搭配，强调技术进步推动愿景实现。
第5空
关键句：Humans will be 5 many of the dirty, repetitive, and dangerous jobs...
逻辑分析：spared（免除）与“肮脏、重复、危险”构成被动语态，表示人类将摆脱这些工作。
第6空
关键句：...that have long been a 6 of factory life.
逻辑分析：feature（特征）作为名词，总结工厂生活的特点。
第7空
关键句：Greater efficiency 7 means fewer people can do the same work.
逻辑分析：inevitably（必然地）说明效率提升与人力减少的因果关系。
第8空
关键句：...see 8 and robots as a solution.
逻辑分析：automation（自动化）与“机器人”并列，共同解决劳动力短缺问题。
第9空
关键句：this period of rapid change in manufacturing is a 9 opportunity...
逻辑分析：fantastic（极好的）强调变革期对社会发展的积极意义。
第10空
关键句：an opportunity to 10 that system differently...
逻辑分析：shape（塑造）与“机会”呼应，体现主动改革的愿景。