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If you are young and thinking about your career, you want to know where you can make a living, well, (12)this going to be a technological replacement of a lot of knowledge intensive jobs in the next twenty years. Particularly in the two largest sectors of the labor force with professional skills. One is teaching, and the other, health care. You have so many applications and software and platforms, but going to come in and provide information and service in these two fields, which means a lot of health care and education sectors, would be radically changed, and lots of jobs will be lost. (13)Now, where will the new jobs be found, well the one sector of the economy that can't be easily duplicated by even small technologies is the caring sector, the personal care sector. That is, you can't really get a robot to do a great massage or physical therapy. Or, you can't get the kind of personal attention you need with regard to therapy or any other personal service. There could be very high and personal services, (14)therapist do charge a lot of money, I think there's no limit to the amount of personal attention and personal care, people would like if they could afford it. But, the real question in the future is, how come people afford these things if they don't have money, because they can't get a job that pays enough, (15)that's why I wrote this book, which is about how to reorganize the economy for the future when technology brings about destructive changes, to what we used to consider high income work.

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预览四道题各选项,由 knowledge-intensive jobs、 replaced、 revolutionize、 robotics、next20 years和 technology等词可推测,短文内容与未来20年科技发展给就业方面所带来的影响有关。

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12. What does the speaker say will happen in the next twenty years?

短文开头提到,未来20年,一大批知识密集型的工作将会被科技所取代。因此答案为B)。


13. Where will young people have more chances to find jobs?

短文中明确提到,个人护理领域的工作不可能轻易地被技术复制,即使是智能技术也不行。因此,将来人们在这一领域应该可以比较容易找到工作,答案为C)。


14. What does the speaker say about therapist?

短文中提到,理疗师们确实收费很高。因此答案为A)。


15. What is the speaker’s book about?

短文末尾,讲话者说,她的这本书主要讨论的是在未来社会,当技术给我们曾经认为的高收入工作带来破坏性变化的时候,我们应该如何重新规划经济。也就是说,该书围绕技术对传统高收入工作带来的破坏性影响展开,答案为B)。