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题干：Peoplehavespeculatedforcenturiesaboutafuturewithoutwork.Todayisnodifferent,withacademics,writers,andactivistsonceagain（1）thattechnologybereplacinghumanworkers.Someimaginethatthecomingwork-freeworldwillbedefinedby（2）。Afewwealthypeoplewillownallthecapital,andthemasseswillstruggleinanimpoverishedwasteland.Adifferentandnotmutuallyexclusive（3）holdsthatthefuturewillbeawastelandofadifferentsort,one（4）bypurposelessness:Withoutjobstogivetheirlives（5），peoplewillsimplybecomelazyanddepressed.（6），today’sunemployeddon’tseemtobehavingagreattime.OneGalluppollfoundthat20percentofAmericanswhohavebeenunemployedforatleastayearreporthavingdepression,doubletheratefor（7）Americans.Also,someresearchsuggeststhatthe（8）forrisingratesofmortality,mental-healthproblems,andaddicting（9）poorly-educatedmiddle-agedpeopleisshortageofwell-paidjobs.Perhapsthisiswhymany（10）theagonizingdullnessofajoblessfuture.Butitdoesn’t（11）followfromfindingslikethesethataworldwithoutworkwouldbefilledwithunease.Suchvisionsarebasedonthe（12）ofbeingunemployedinasocietybuiltontheconceptofemployment.Inthe（13）ofwork,asocietydesignedwithotherendsinmindcould（14）strikinglydifferentcircumstancedforthefutureoflaborandleisure.Today,the（15）ofworkmaybeabitoverblown.“Manyjobsareboring,degrading,unhealthy,andawasteofhumanpotential,”saysJohnDanaher,alecturerattheNationalUniversityofIrelandinGalway.Thesedays,becauseleisuretimeisrelatively（16）formostworkers,peopleusetheirfreetimetocounterbalancetheintellectualandemotional（17）oftheirjobs.“WhenIcomehomefromahardday’swork,Ioftenfeel（18）,”Danahersays,adding,“InaworldinwhichIdon’thavetowork,Imightfeelratherdifferent”—perhapsdifferentenoughtothrowhimself（19）ahobbyorapassionprojectwiththeintensityusuallyreservedfor（20）matters.
题目：（1） - A 、boasting
- B 、denying
- C 、warning
- D 、ensuring
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参考答案【正确答案：C】
根据前文语境，本句题干意为“现在也没什么不同，学者，作家还有活动家都（）科技正在代替工人。” A. 夸耀；B. 拒绝；C. 警告；D. 保证，依次代入原文，结合本段最后一句“一部分富人将会拥有全部的资产，而大众只能在穷困的荒芜之地艰苦求生。”这一后果，应该是在发出“警告”，因此，C为正确答案。
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