【正文】 er39。s seat. According to the American Trucking Associations, approximately 3 million truck drivers were employed in the United States in 2010, and 6. 8 million others were employed in other jobs relating to trucking activity. So roughly one of every 15 workers in the country is employed in the trucking business. We could be talking about millions of jobs disappearing in the early 2020s. And then there is the Gig Economy (零工經(jīng)濟(jì)) that has some businesses moving toward parttime, ondemand employment. Uber has already done this to taxi drivers, and other technology panies are doing it to a wide range of jobs. A study by Intuit predicted that, by 2020, 40% of American workers will be selfemployed, and that fulltime jobs will be harder to find. We are talking about 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(jī)器人，不再需要很多全職工人，零工經(jīng)濟(jì)時(shí)代很快就會(huì)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(jī)器人的成本比人力更便宜，未來很多公司會(huì)更多使用機(jī)器人。也就是說機(jī)器人會(huì)奪走很多人的工作，故C項(xiàng)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(huì)大大地減少雇傭司機(jī)的工資付出，公司的運(yùn)營成本會(huì)越來越低。故B項(xiàng)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(xiàng)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(jī)會(huì)回歸，只會(huì)減緩全球經(jīng)濟(jì)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(xiàng)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(jī)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(jì)) that has some businesses moving toward parttime, ondemand employment. 可知零工經(jīng)濟(jì)時(shí)代很快就會(huì)到來。故D項(xiàng)正確。 【點(diǎn)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 If spending is a measure of what matters, then the people of the developing world place a high value on brains. While private spending on education has not changed much in the rich world in the past ten years, in China and India it has more than doubled. Since brainpower is the primary generator of progress, this burst of enthusiasm for investing in private education is excellent news for the world. But not everybody is delighted. Because private education increases inequality, some governments are trying to stop its advance. That39。s wrong: they should wele it, and spread its benefits more widely. ① Education used to be provided by religious institutions or entrepreneurs. But when governments, starting in Prussia in the 18th century, got into the business of nationbuilding, they realized they could use education to shape young minds. As state systems grew, private schooling was left to the elite and the pious(虔誠的). Now it is enjoying popularity again, for several reasons. Ines are rising, especially among the better off, at the same time as birth rates are falling. In China the former onechild policy means that six people—two parents and four grandparents—can pour money into educating a single child. ② All over the developing world, people want more or better education than governments provide. Where cities are growing at unmanageable speed, the private education is taking up the slack. In India the private education now educates nearly half of all children, in Pakistan more than a third, and in both countries the state education is shrinking. Even where the state does pretty well, as in East Asia, richer people still want better schooling for their children than the masses get. Thus, Vietnam, which has an outstanding stateschool system for a poor country, measured by its performance in the OECD39。s PISA test, also has the fastestgrowing private education. ③ In most ways, this is an excellent thing, because the world is getting more and better schooling. In rich countries, once the background and ability of the children who attend private schools are taken into account, their exams results are about the same as those in the state education. But in developing countrie