First, of course, it is plain that in a few years everyone will have at his elbow several times more mechanical energy than he has today. Second, there will be advances in biological knowledge as far-reaching as those that have been made in physics. We are only beginning to learn that we can control our biological environment as well as our physical one. Starvation has been prophesied twice to a growing world population; by Malthus about 1. 8 billion and by Crookes about 1. 9 billion. It was headed off the first time by taking agriculture to America and the second time by using the new fertilizers. Soon starvation will be headed off by the control of the diseases and the heredity of plants and animals — by shaping our own biological environment. And third, I come back to the haunting theme of automation. The most common species in the factory today is the man who works or minds a simple machine — the operator. Before long he will be as extinct as the hand-loom weaver and the dodo(老古董). The repetitive tasks of industry will be taken over by the machines, as the heavy tasks were taken over long ago; and the mental tedium will go the way of physical exhaustion. Today we still distinguish, even among repetitive jobs, between the skilled and the unskilled, but in a few years to come all repetition will be unskilled. We simply waste our time if we oppose this change.

This article was written to______.

A．warn us of impending starvation

B．present facts about life in the near future

C．oppose biological advances

D．warn of the danger of automation

Advances in biological knowledge have______.

A．kept pace with those in physics

B．been responsible for the invention of new machines

C．surpassed those in physics

D．lagged behind those in physics

We are beginning to learn that we______.

A．can control our physical environment

B．can never control our biological environment

C．have no control over our physical environment

D．can control both our biological and physical environments

In the near future, starvation will be prevented by______.

A．Chinese agriculture

B．use of new fertilizers

C．control of the diseases and the heredity of plants and animals

D．vitamin pills

Which of the following is NOT true?

A．The mental tedium will not exist in the end.

B．Hand-loom weaver is the thing of the past.

C．Automation is an out-of-date topic today.

D．Physical burden in the factory has already been replaced.

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This article was written to______.

In the coming years, people will______.

Advances in biological knowledge have______.

We are beginning to learn that we______.

In the near future, starvation will be prevented by______.

Which of the following is NOT true?

The author believes before long, machines will______.

The repetitive tasks of industry lead to______.

If the author’s predictions are realized, the demand for unskilled workers will be______.

From the passage, increased automation______.