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104年
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第 19 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 19.
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 19.
- 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
請觀察空格前的那句話，作者特別提到了「一百年前，每三個美國工人中就有一個人在農場工作」這個比例；現在看到空格所在的句子以「Today（今天）」開頭，你認為作者在這裡最有可能會用什麼樣的資訊，來跟過去那「三分之一」的人力比例進行對照呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你能精準捕捉到上下文的數據對比關係，這代表你對文章的邏輯架構有很強的敏銳度，非常值得肯定。
數據對比與主詞的一致性
這道題目要求我們觀察段落中的數據演變。前一句提到一百年前美國「每三名工人中就有一人」（約 33%）在農場工作，而空格後的動詞是 produce（生產）。因此，空格處必須填入一個能與農場勞動力對應的「數量主詞」。選項 (C) less than 2% of them 中的 them 指代前文的 American workers，完美地與前句的「三分之一」形成了強烈的今昔對比，具體呈現了技術進步如何用極少的人力產出更多的糧食，邏輯極為嚴密。
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