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  3. Industrialism, at least within our experience of it for more than 200 years, never 【B1】______ a point of equilibrium or a level

Industrialism, at least within our experience of it for more than 200 years, never 【B1】______ a point of equilibrium or a level

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问题     Industrialism, at least within our experience of it for more than 200 years, never 【B1】______ a point of equilibrium or a level plateau. 【B2】______ its very principle of operation, it ceaselessly innovates and changes. Having largely 【B3】______ the agricultural work force, it moves on manufacturing 【B4】______ by creating new automated technology that increases manufacturing productivity 【B5】______ displacing workers. Manufacturing, from 【B6】______ a half or more of the employed population of industrial societies, shrinks to between a quarter and a third. Its place is filled by the service sector.
    The move to a service society is 【B7】______ by a great expansion in education, health, and other private and public welfare 【B8】______ . The population typically becomes not just healthier, better housed, and better fed but also better educated. Professional and scientific knowledge becomes the most marketable 【B9】______ The link between pure science and technology, loose and uncertain in the early 【B10】______ of industrialization, becomes pivotal.
    Struck by these changes, as 【B11】______ with the classic forms of industrial society of the 19th and early 20th centuries, some theorists have discerned a 【B12】______ to a new postmodern or postindustrial society. Such 【B13】______ may be premature. Most of the changes 【B14】______ late industrialism can be seen as the results of long-term developments 【B15】______ in the process of industrialization from the start. The rise of service industries has 【B16】______ in part from the increase in leisure and in disposable wealth and in part from the 【B17】______ process of mechanization and technical innovation, 【B18】______ constantly raises manufacturing productivity 【B19】______ replacing human labour with machines. It can also be seen as the 【B20】______ of the growth of multinational corporations.
【B4】
选项 A、efficiency
B、labor
C、employment
D、products
答案C
解析 本题考查上下文推理。紧接上文的意思“工业化大规模地消灭了农业劳动力后”，这一句谈工业化对劳动力和就业的影响，因此，应选C。
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