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  3. The things people make, and the way they make them, determine how cities grow

The things people make, and the way they make them, determine how cities grow

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问题    The things people make, and the way they make them, determine how cities grow and decline, and influence how empires rise and fall. So, any disruption to the world’s factories【C1】______ And that disruption is surely coming. Factories are being digitised, filled with new sensors and new computers to make them quicker, more【C2】______ , and more efficient.
   Robots are breaking free from the cages that surround them, learning new skills and new ways of working. And 3D printers have long【C3】______ a world where you can make anything, anywhere, from a computerised design. That vision is【C4】______ closer to reality. These forces will lead to cleaner factories, producing better goods at lower prices, personalised to our individual needs and desires. Humans will be【C5】______ many of the dirty, repetitive, and dangerous jobs that have long been a【C6】______ of factory life.
   Greater efficiency【C7】______ means fewer people can do the same work. Yet factory bosses in many developed countries are worried about a lack of skilled human workers—and see【C8】______ and robots as a solution. But economist Helena Leurent says this period of rapid change in manufacturing is a【C9】______ opportunity to make the world a better place. "Manufacturing is the one system where you have got the biggest source of innovation, the biggest source of economic growth, and the biggest source of great jobs in the past. You can see it changing. That’s an opportunity to【C10】______ that system differently, and if we can, it will have tremendous significance."
   A) automation F) feature K) matters
   B) concerns G) flexible L) moving
   C) enormously H) inevitably M) promised
   D) fantastic I) interaction N) shape
   E) fascinated J) leaning O) spared [br] 【C7】
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答案 H
解析 [语法判断]本空位于主语和谓语动词之间，因此应填入副词。[语义判断]本句指出，更高的效率意味着更少的人可以做同样的工作。由句意可知，效率提高，意味着同样的工作需要的劳动力变少了，因此本空应填入含有“一定，必然”意义的副词来修饰整个句子，故本题答案为H)inevitably。
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