【正文】 t 60 million people in this category. The problem is that not only do such parttime workers lack reliable fulltime jobs and sick pay, but they can39。t enjoy health insurance and longerterm benefits. The measures to be taken are to raise trade barriers. But closing the doors to foreign trade won39。t bring jobs back. It will only slow the global economy and hurt American exports, shrinking the U. S. economy and accelerating job loss. （1）The underlined word decimate in Paragraph 1 can be replaced by ______. A.make someone interested inB.equip someone forC.wipe outD.bring back（2）What will happen with technologies developing according to the text? A.Robots will bee smarter and smarter.B.Uber39。s labor cost will be lower and lower.C.More and more truck drivers will be needed.D.Taxi drivers can enjoy more health insurance.（3）Which of the following is an advantage of a fulltime job? A.It may be flexible.B.It may offer sick pay.C.It is full of adventure.D.It is always wellpaid.（4）Which of the following does the writer agree on? A.Weling foreign trade.B.Offering more parttime jobs.C.Using fewer robots to stop job loss.D.Developing more new technologies.（5）What39。s the writer39。s main purpose in writing the text? A.To show technology advances in our daily life.B.To prove technologies cause low ines.C.To introduce what the Gig Economy is.D.To warn the Gig Economy is ing.【答案】 （1）C（2）B（3）B（4）A（5）D 【解析】【分析】短文大意：本文主要介紹了隨著技術(shù)進(jìn)步，很多公司使用更多的機器人，不再需要很多全職工人，零工經(jīng)濟時代很快就會到來，并舉出Uber公司的例子加以說明。 （1）詞義猜測題。根據(jù)第二段第一句Some robots already cost less to operate than the salaries of the humans they replace, and they are getting cheaper. 可知機器人的成本比人力更便宜，未來很多公司會更多使用機器人。也就是說機器人會奪走很多人的工作，故C項正確。 （2）推理判斷題。根據(jù)第三段第一句Uber and many other panies are working on developing cars and trucks that don39。t need a driver in the driver39。s seat. 可知Uber公司開發(fā)了無人駕駛技術(shù)，會大大地減少雇傭司機的工資付出，公司的運營成本會越來越低。故B項正確。 （3）推理判斷題。根據(jù)第四段最后一句The problem is that not only do such parttime workers lack reliable fulltime jobs and sick pay, but they can39。t enjoy health insurance and longerterm benefits. 可知兼職工作的人無法享受生病工資，也就是說全職工作的人可以享受sick pay，這也是全職工作的優(yōu)勢，故B項正確。 （4）推理判斷題。根據(jù)文章最后一句But closing the doors to foreign trade won39。t bring jobs back. It will only slow the global economy and hurt American exports, shrinking the U. S. economy and accelerating job loss. 可知作者認(rèn)為關(guān)閉對外貿(mào)易并不能讓工作機會回歸，只會減緩全球經(jīng)濟發(fā)展并傷害美國的出口。由此可見作者支持對外貿(mào)易。故A項正確。 （5）推理判斷題。根據(jù)文章前兩段可知技術(shù)進(jìn)步讓公司使用更多的機器人，不再需要很多全職工人。再根據(jù)第四段第一句And then there is the Gig Economy (零工經(jīng)濟) that has some businesses moving toward parttime, ondemand employment. 可知零工經(jīng)濟時代很快就會到來。故D項正確。 【點評】考查閱讀理解。本文詞義猜測題和推理判斷題兩種?？碱}型，詞義猜測題要注意理解劃線詞匯所在語境需要表達(dá)的意思；推理判斷題需要聯(lián)系上下文，推斷出需要的信息。9．閱讀理解 We talk continuously about how to make children more resilient (有恢復(fù)力的)，but whatever we39。re doing, it39。s not working. Rates of anxiety disorders and depression are rising rapidly among teenagers. What are we doing wrong? Nassim Taleb invented the word antifragile and used it to describe a small but very important class of systems that gain from shocks, challenges, and disorder. The immune (免疫的) system is one of them: it requires exposure to certain kinds of bacteria and potential allergens (過敏原) in childhood in order to develop to its full ability. Children39。s social and emotional abilities are as antifragile as their immune systems. If we overprotect kids and keep them safe from unpleasant social situations and negative emotions, we deprive (剝奪) them of the challenges and opportunities for selfbuilding they need to grow strong. Such children are likely to suffer more when exposed later to other unpleasant but ordinary life events, such as teasing and social rejection. It39。s not the kids39。 fault. In the UK, as in the US, parents became much more fearful in the1980s and 1990s as cable TV and later the Internet exposed everyone, more and more, to those rare occurrences of crimes and accidents that now occur less and less. Outdoor play and independent mobility went down。 screen time and adultmonitored activities went up. Yet free play in which kids work out their own rules of engagement, take small risks, and learn to master small dangers turns out to be vital for the development of adult social and even physical petence. Depriving them of free play prevents their socialemotional growth. Norwegian play researchers Ellen Sandseter and Leif Kennair warned: We may observe an increased anxiety or mental disorders in society if children are forbidden from participating in age adequate risky play. They wrote those words in 2011. Over the following few years, their prediction came true. Kids born after 1994 are suffering from much higher rates of anxiety disorders and depression than did the previous generation. Besides, there is also a rise in the rate at which teenage girls are admitted to hospital for deliberately harming themselves. What can we do to change these trends? How can we raise kids strong enough to handle the ordinary and extraordinary challenges of life? We can39。t guarantee that giving primary school children more independence today will bring down the rate of teenage suicide tomorrow. The links between childhood overprotection and teenage mental illness are suggestive but not clearcut. Yet there are good reasons to suspect that by depriving our naturally antifragile kids of the wide range of experiences they need to bee strong, we are systematically preventing their growth. We should let go173。and let them grow.（1）Why does the author mention the immune system in Paragraph 2? A.To stress its importance.B.To analyze the cause of anxiety.C.160