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  3. In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list (A、B、C、

In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list (A、B、C、

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问题 In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list (A、B、C、D、E、F、G……) to fit into each of the numbered blank. There are several extra choices, which do not fit in any of the gaps. (10 points)

    Opinion polls are now beginning to show a reluctant consensus (舆论)that, whoever is to blame and whatever happens from now on, high unemployment is probably here to stay. This means we shall have to find ways of sharing the available employment more widely.
    But we need to go further. We must ask some fundamental questions about the future of work. Should we continue to treat employment as the norm? Should we not rather encourage many other ways for self-respecting people to work? Should we not create conditions in which many of us can work for ourselves, rather than for an employer? (41)______.
    The industrial age has been the only period of human history in which most people’s work has taken the form of jobs. The industrial age may now be coming to an end, and some of the changes in work patterns which it brought may have to be reversed. This seems a daunting thought. (42)______. Universal employment, as its history shows, has not meant economic freedom.
    Employment became widespread when the enclosures of the 17th and 18th centuries made many people dependent on paid work by depriving them of the use of the land, and thus of the means to provide a living for themselves. (43)______.
    Later, as transport improved, first by rail and then by road, people commuted longer distances to their places of employment until, eventually, many people’s work lost all connection with their home lives and the places in which they lived.
    Meanwhile, employment put women at a disadvantage. In pre-industrial times, men and women had shared the productive work of the household and village community. (44)______. Tax and benefit regulations still assume this norm today, and restrict more flexible sharing of work roles between the sexes.
    (45)______. As employment became the dominant form of work, young people and old people were excluded a problem now, as more teenagers become frustrated at school and more retired people want to live active lives.
    All this may now have to change. The time has certainly come to switch some effort and resources away from the utopian(空想的) goal of creating jobs for all, to the urgent practical task of helping many people to manage without full-time jobs.

A. Now it became customary, for the husband to go out to paid employment, leaving the unpaid work of the home and family to his wife.
B. Should we not aim to revive the household and the neighbourhood, as well as the factory and the office, as centres of production and work?
C. Men and women are all equal when applying for a job.
D. Only in this way, can we solve the unemployment problem.
E. But, in fact, it could offer the prospect of a better future of work.
F. It was not only-women whose work’ status suffered.
G. Then the factory system destroyed the cottage industries and removed work from people’s homes.
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答案B
解析 从结构上来开，本段每句都是"Should we not…"这样的结构。从句意上来看都表示我们都不能像以前那样做某事。因此，从这两点分析，可以判断选项B是本题的正确答案。
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