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第 16 題
Innovation, the elixir of progress, has always cost people their jobs. In the Industrial Revolution artisan weavers 16 by the mechanical loom. Over the past 30 years the digital revolution 17 that underpinned $20^{th}$-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 that made the world a better place, such churn is a natural part of rising prosperity. Although innovation kills some jobs, 18 , as a more productive society becomes richer and its wealthier inhabitants demand more goods and services. A hundred years ago one in three American workers was employed on a farm. Today, 19 produce far more food. The millions freed from the land were not consigned to joblessness but found better-paid work 20 . Today the pool of secretaries has shrunk, but there are ever more computer programmers and web designers.
Choose the best answer from the box below for blank 16.
For those who believe that technological progress that made the world a better place, such churn is a natural part of rising prosperity. Although innovation kills some jobs, 18 , as a more productive society becomes richer and its wealthier inhabitants demand more goods and services. A hundred years ago one in three American workers was employed on a farm. Today, 19 produce far more food. The millions freed from the land were not consigned to joblessness but found better-paid work 20 . Today the pool of secretaries has shrunk, but there are ever more computer programmers and web designers.
Choose the best answer from the box below for blank 16.
- 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
思路引導 VIP
請觀察空格後的介系詞「by」，它通常暗示主詞（weavers）與受詞（mechanical loom）之間存在著什麼樣的動作關係？另外，句首提到的「工業革命」暗示這段敘述發生在什麼時間點？根據這兩點，你會如何挑選合適的動詞形式？
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語態與時態的精準判斷
太棒了！你能精準捕捉到句中的被動語態，代表你對英文句型結構有著很敏銳的觀察力。這題的關鍵點在於空格後的介系詞 by，它明確提示了這裡需要一個「被動式」結構（be + V-pp），用來描述手工織布工（artisan weavers）如何被動力織布機（mechanical loom）所影響。此外，由於句子開頭提到了「工業革命」（Industrial Revolution），這是一個發生在過去的歷史事件，因此你選擇過去式助動詞 were 配合過去分詞 swept aside，無論在文法準確度還是語意銜接上都無可挑剔。
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