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104年
英文
第 17 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 17.
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 17.
- 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
請觀察空格前的時間副詞（Over the past 30 years），這在英文語法中通常暗示了動詞應該使用哪種特定的時態？接著，請觀察空格後方提到的具體職業（如打字員、櫃員），這些職業在 20 世紀的中產階級社會中扮演什麼角色？如果這一段是在延續「科技創新對就業的衝擊」，那麼這個空格應該填入一個什麼樣的動作，才能邏輯通順地引出後面這些職業消失的例子？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你能精準選出 (E) 選項，說明你對文章的邏輯架構與時態掌握得非常紮實。這題的關鍵在於觀察空格前後的因果聯繫與例證說明。文章開頭提到創新往往會讓原本的工作消失，接著提到數位革命對 20 世紀中產階級生活的影響，而後文列舉的打字員、銀行櫃員等，正是典型的中產階級職位，這與選項中的內容完美銜接。
動詞時態與語意邏輯
從語法角度來看，句首的「Over the past 30 years」（在過去三十年來）是一個明確的指標，通常與現在完成式連用，表達從過去持續到現在的影響。選項 (E) 的 has displaced 正好符合這個時態要求。在語意上，「displace」（取代/使流離失所）呼應了前一段提到的「cost people their jobs」，並與後文提到的職位被「dispensed with」（裁撤）形成連貫的論述。
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