Over the coming decades, millions of jobs will be threatened by robotics and artificial intelligence. despite intensive academic ___26___ on these developments, there has been little study on how workers ___27___ to being replaced through technology.
To find out, business researchers at TUM and Erasmus university Rotterdam conducted 11 studies and surveys with over 2,000 persons from several countries.
The findings show: In principle, most people view it more ___28___ when workers are replaced by other people than by robots or intelligent software. This preference ___29___ , however, when it refers to people's own jobs. When that is the case, the majority of workers find it less upsetting to see their own jobs go to robots than to other employees. In the long term, however, the same people see machines as more threatening to their future role in the workforce. These effects can also be observed among people who have recently become unemployed.
The researchers were able to identify the causes behind these ___30___ paradoxical results, too: People tend to ___31___ themselves less with machines than with other people. Consequently, being replaced by a robot or software ___32___ less of a threat to their feeling of self-worth. This reduced self-threat could even be observed when participants assumed that they were being replaced by other employees who relied on technological abilities such as artificial intelligence in their work.
"Even when unemployment results from the ___33___ of new technologies, people still judge it in a social context," says Christoph Fuchs, one of the authors of the study. "It is important to understand these ___34___ effects when trying to manage the massive changes in the working world to minimize ___35___ in society."
A)compare
B)contradicts
C)conventional
D)debate
E)disruptions
F)drastically
G)favorably
H)guarantee
I)introduction
J)modifications
K)poses
L)psychological
M)react
N)reverses
O)seemingly
答案解析：
26. 根据Despite intensive academic ______ on these developments”，可知这里需要一个名词，表示研究”或讨论”，与academic”(学术的)搭配，指学术界对这些发展的深入研究，该句句意是：尽管学术界对这些发展进行了深入研究...。所以选 D) debate。
27. 根据how workers ______ to being replaced through technology”，可知这里需要一个动词，与to”搭配，表示对...做出反应”，该句句意是：...但关于工人对被技术取代如何反应的研究却很少。所以选 M) react。
28. 根据most people view it more ______ when workers are replaced by other people than by robots”，可知这里需要一个副词，修饰动词view”，表示更积极地”或更有利地”，该句句意是：...大多数人认为，工人被其他人取代比被机器人取代更容易被接受。所以选 G) favorably。
29. 根据This preference ______ , however, when it refers to people's own jobs”，可知这里需要一个动词，表示逆转”或反转”，指当情况涉及自身时，这种偏好发生了反转，该句句意是：然而，当涉及到人们自己的工作时，这种偏好就逆转了。所以选 N) reverses。
30. 根据these ______ paradoxical results”，可知这里需要一个副词，修饰paradoxical results”(矛盾的结果)，表示表面上地”或看似地”，指这些结果看起来是矛盾的，该句句意是：研究人员也能够找出这些看似矛盾的结果背后的原因...。所以选 O) seemingly。
31. 根据People tend to ______ themselves less with machines than with other people”，可知这里需要一个动词，与with”搭配，表示将自己与...联系起来”或认同”，该句句意是：人们倾向于将自己与机器的联系比对与其他人的联系更少。所以选 A) compare。
32. 根据being replaced by a robot or software ______ less of a threat to their feeling of self-worth”，可知这里需要一个动词，表示构成”或造成”，指被机器人取代对自我价值感构成的威胁较小，该句句意是：...被机器人或软件取代对他们的自我价值感构成的威胁较小。所以选 K) poses。
33. 根据Even when unemployment results from the ______ of new technologies”，可知这里需要一个名词，表示引入”或推出”，指新技术的引入导致了失业，该句句意是：即使失业是由新技术的引入造成的...。所以选 I) introduction。
34. 根据It is important to understand these ______ effects”，可知这里需要一个形容词，修饰effects”(影响)，表示心理上的”，指理解这些心理效应很重要，该句句意是：...理解这些心理效应对于管理...至关重要。所以选 L) psychological。
35. 根据to minimize ______ in society”，可知这里需要一个名词，表示动荡”或中断”，指尽量减少社会动荡，该句句意是：...以尽量减少社会动荡。所以选 E) disruptions。
