It's easy to see why the tech world is（2） ____ .The rise of machine learning has increased the fear that（3） ____ humans could simply become out of date--（4） ____ ，3.5 million American truck drivers might soon find their jobs threatened by driverless trucks.Though in the past，technology usually complemented workers（5） ____ replacing them，there's no law of nature （自然法则） saying the technology of the future will work the same.A few economists even claim that cheap automation has already（6） ____ income from workers to company owners. Another（7） ____ is that even if the mass of humanity ultimately does find new ways to add value by complementing new technology-to "race with the machines，" as economist Erik Brynjofsson puts it-this transition could take a long time and hurt a lot of people.As Bloomberg View's Tyler Cowen has noted，wages in Britain fell for four decades at the start of the Industrial Revolution.More（8） ____ ，we've seen very slow and painful adjustment to the impact of globalization.If the machine learning revolution hurts workers for 40 years before ultimately helping them，it might be worth it to（9） ____ that revolution and give them time to adjust. The main argument against taxing the robots is that it might hold back（10） ____ .Growth in rich countries has slowed markedly in the past decade，suggesting that it's getting harder and harder to find new ways of doing things.Stagnating（停滞的） productivity，combined with falling business investment，suggests that（11） ____ of new technology is currently too slow rather than too fast the biggest problem right now isn't too many robots，it's too few.Taxing new technology，however it's done，could make that slowdown worse. The problem with Gate's basic（12） ____ is that it's very hard to tell the difference between new technology that complement humans and new technology that replaces them.This is especially true over the long term.Power looms（织布机）replaced human weavers back in the Industrial Revolution.（13） ____ ，people eventually became more productive，by learning to operate those looms.If taxes had slowed the development of power looms，the eventual （最终的） improvements would have come later. This is a powerful argument（14） ____ the taxation of automation.Gates is right to say that we should start thinking ahead of time about how to use policy to mitigate（缓和）the unintended consequences of automation.But given the importance of sustaining innovation，we should look at（15） ____ policies. （1）

Microsoft Corp founder Bill Gates caught people's eye in a recent interview，when he suggested that robots should be taxed in order to help humans keep their jobs.Gates is only one of many people in the tech world who have worried about（1） ____ and its threat to workers.
    It's easy to see why the tech world is（2） ____ .The rise of machine learning has increased the fear that（3） ____  humans could simply become out of date--（4） ____ ，3.5 million American truck drivers might soon find their jobs threatened by driverless trucks.Though in the past，technology usually complemented workers（5） ____ replacing them，there's no law of nature （自然法则） saying the technology of the future will work the same.A few economists even claim that cheap automation has already（6） ____ income from workers to company owners.
    Another（7） ____ is that even if the mass of humanity ultimately does find new ways to add value by complementing new technology-to "race with the machines，" as economist Erik Brynjofsson puts it-this transition could take a long time and hurt a lot of people.As Bloomberg View's Tyler Cowen has noted，wages in Britain fell for four decades at the start of the Industrial Revolution.More（8） ____ ，we've seen very slow and painful adjustment to the impact of globalization.If the machine learning revolution hurts workers for 40 years before ultimately helping them，it might be worth it to（9） ____  that revolution and give them time to adjust.
    The main argument against taxing the robots is that it might hold back（10） ____ .Growth in rich countries has slowed markedly in the past decade，suggesting that it's getting harder and harder to find new ways of doing things.Stagnating（停滞的） productivity，combined with falling business investment，suggests that（11） ____ of new technology is currently too slow rather than too fast the biggest problem right now isn't too many robots，it's too few.Taxing new technology，
however it's done，could make that slowdown worse.
    The problem with Gate's basic（12） ____ is that it's very hard to tell the difference between new technology that complement humans and new technology that replaces them.This is especially true over the long term.Power looms（织布机）replaced human weavers back in the Industrial Revolution.（13） ____ ，people eventually became more productive，by learning to operate those looms.If taxes had slowed the development of power looms，the eventual （最终的） improvements would have come later.
    This is a powerful argument（14） ____ the taxation of automation.Gates is right to say that we should start thinking ahead of time about how to use policy to mitigate（缓和）the unintended consequences of automation.But given the importance of sustaining innovation，we should look at（15） ____ policies.

（1）A.sanitation	B.automation	C.meditation	D.dedication
（2）A.furious	B.worried	C.intolerant	D.thrilling
（3）A.few	B.several	C.many	D.any
（4）A.in other words	B.for example	C.of course	D.by contrast
（5）A.in case of	B.because of	C.in face of	D.instead of
（6）A.distracted	B.perceived	C.prompted	D.swallowed
（7）A.panic	B.empathy	C.adjustment	D.vision
（8）A.possibly	B.recently	C.primarily	D.normally
（9）A.slow down	B.bring up	C.burn out	D.light up
（10）A.modernism	B.succession	C.evacuation	D.innovation
（11）A.persuasion	B.adoption	C.interruption	D.elimination
（12）A.proposal	B.moral	C.gratitude	D.misfortune
（13）A.However	B.Therefore	C.onsequently	D.Furthermore
（14）A.from	B.against	C.by	D.besides
（15）A.random	B.stimulating	C.persistent	D.alternative