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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] 【C10】
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答案 N
解析 [语法判断]本空位于不定式符号to之后，名词词组that system之前，因此应填入动词。[语义判断]本句中的that system指的是manufacturing。由本段可知，制造业正在经历巨大的变革，这是一个重新塑造制造业的机会，因此应填入含有“塑造，改变”意义的动词，故本题答案为N)shape。
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