Choose the word or phrase among A, B, C or D that best fits the blank space in the following passage:
"Quite apart from the economic similarity between present-day automation and the mechanization which has been proceeding for centuries, it must also be stressed that even in the United States automation is by no means the only factor (1)….. people from existing jobs.
The increasing number of unneeded workers in (2)…. years has been the result of much more simple and old-fashioned influences: farm labourers have been (3)…. out of work by bigger tractors, miners by the cheapness of oil, and railwaymen by better roads.
It is quite wrong, therefore, to think of automation as some new monster whose arrival (4)…. the existence of employment in the same way that the arrival of myxomatosis threatened the existence of the rabbit. Automation is one (5)….. of technological change, which itself is only one of the several changes (changes in tastes, changes in social patterns, changes in organization) which (6)…. in certain jobs disappearing and certain skills ceasing to be required. And even in America, which has a level of technology and output per (7)…. much in (8)….. of Britain’s, there is no (9)…. that the (10)…. of change is actually speeding up.
Nevertheless changes in the amount of labour needed to produce a certain output are proceeding fairly rapidly in America - and in other countries - and my proceed more rapidly in future. Indeed it is one of the main objects of economic policy."
6. which itself is only one of the several changes (changes in tastes, changes in social patterns, changes in organization) which (6)…. in certain jobs disappearing and certain skills ceasing to be required.
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Lời giải:
Báo saiA. kết quả, do đó
B. cư trú
C. kết thúc
D. giới hạn
Đáp án A
Dịch: mà bản thân nó chỉ là một trong số những thay đổi (thay đổi thị hiếu, thay đổi mô hình xã hội, thay đổi tổ chức) dẫn đến một số công việc nhất định biến mất và một số kỹ năng nhất định không còn được yêu cầu.