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  3. Hardly a week goes by without some advance in technology that would have seemed incredible 50 years ago. And we can expect the r

Hardly a week goes by without some advance in technology that would have seemed incredible 50 years ago. And we can expect the r

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问题     Hardly a week goes by without some advance in technology that would have seemed incredible 50 years ago. And we can expect the rate of change to accelerate rather than slow down within our lifetime. The developments in technology are bound to have a dramatic effect on the future of work. By 2010, new technology will have revolutionized communications. People will be transmitting messages down telephone lines that previously would have been sent by post, Not only postmen but also clerks and secretaries will vanish in a paper-free society. All the routine tasks they perform will be carried on a tiny silicon chip so that they will be as obsolete as the horse and cart after the invention of the motor car. one change will make thousands, if not millions, redundant.
    Even people in traditional professions, where expert knowledge has been the key, are unlikely to escape the effects of new technology. Instead of going to a solicitor, you might go to a computer which is programmed with all the most up-to-date legal information. Doctors, too, will find that an electronic competitor will be able to carry out a much quicker and more accurate diagnosis and recommend more efficient courses of treatment. In education, teachers will be largely replaced by teaching machines far more knowledgeable than any human being. Most learning will take place in the home via video conferencing. Children will still go to school though, until another place is created where they can make friends and develop social skills.
    What can we do to avoid the threat of unemployment? We shouldn’t hide our heads in the sand. Unions will try to stop change but they will be fighting a losing battle. People should get computer literate as this just might save them from professional extinction. After all, there will be a few jobs left in law, education and medicine for those few individuals who are capable of writing and programming the software of the future. Strangely enough, there will still be jobs like rubbish collection and cleaning as it is tough to programme tasks which are largely unpredictable.
The passage tells us that in the future ______.
选项 A、children will not be taught in schools
B、no teachers will be needed
C、teachers will be less knowledgeable
D、children will learn life skills at school
答案D
解析 事实细节题。在文章第二段的最后，作者提到了科技对教育的影响。在这里，作者说的是teachers will be largely replaced和most learning，也就是说，并不是指全部。而“Children wills still go to school though，until another place is created where they can make friends and develop social skills(孩子们仍然去上学，直到建立起可以交朋友和培养社会技能的新地方为止) ”这句话正与D) 的内容相符。
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