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  3. A week goes by without some advances in technology, which would have seemed incredible nowadays. And we can expect the rate of c

A week goes by without some advances in technology, which would have seemed incredible nowadays. And we can expect the rate of c

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问题    A week goes by without some advances in technology, which would have seemed incredible nowadays. 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 more messages along 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 much more knowledgeable
D、children will learn life skills at school
答案D
解析 由题干定位第二段最后三句话。最后一句中make friends and develop social skills“交朋友，培养社交能力”与原文learn life skills同义，因而选[D]、[A]与本段最后二句的内容不一致，故排除；teachers will be largely replaced by指的是大部分教师会被机器取代，并非全部，排除 [B]；[C]与本段倒数第三句的内容矛盾，未来的教学机器比人的知识要渊博，故排除。
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