Industrialism, at least within our experience of it for more than 200 years, never 【B1】______ a point of equilibrium or a level plateau. 【B2】______ its very principle of operation, it ceaselessly innovates and changes. Having largely 【B3】______ the agricultural work force, it moves on manufacturing 【B4】______ by creating new automated technology that increases manufacturing productivity 【B5】______ displacing workers. Manufacturing, from 【B6】______ a half or more of the employed population of industrial societies, shrinks to between a quarter and a third. Its place is filled by the service sector. The move to a service society is 【B7】______ by a great expansion in education, health, and other private and public welfare 【B8】______ . The population typically becomes not just healthier, better housed, and better fed but also better educated. Professional and scientific knowledge becomes the most marketable 【B9】______ The link between pure science and technology, loose and uncertain in the early 【B10】______ of industrialization, becomes pivotal. Struck by these changes, as 【B11】______ with the classic forms of industrial society of the 19th and early 20th centuries, some theorists have discerned a 【B12】______ to a new postmodern or postindustrial society. Such 【B13】______ may be premature. Most of the changes 【B14】______ late industrialism can be seen as the results of long-term developments 【B15】______ in the process of industrialization from the start. The rise of service industries has 【B16】______ in part from the increase in leisure and in disposable wealth and in part from the 【B17】______ process of mechanization and technical innovation, 【B18】______ constantly raises manufacturing productivity 【B19】______ replacing human labour with machines. It can also be seen as the 【B20】______ of the growth of multinational corporations.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】解析：本题考查固定短语。consist of意为“由……构成”；account for意为“(在数量、比例方面)占”；take in意为“接受”；amount to意为“总计”。句意是：“制造业由占工业社会就业人口的一半或一半以上缩减到占四分之一和三分之一之间。”因此，B符合句意。

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】解析：本题考查上下文推理。由空格前的marketable(有销路的，畅销的)可知此处需要一个表示商品或产品的词。除property(财产)外，都有此意，但具体含义有些区别。item指一件物品或东西；commodity意为“商品，货物”；article指“(物品的)一件，物件”。根据句意选C。

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】解析：本题考查上下文推理。collide意为“碰撞，冲突”；comply意为“照做，遵照”；compare意为“比较”；connect意为“连接”。根据句意，此处应该选compared。as compared with相当于as they(these changes)are compared with。此处相关部分的意思是：“这些变化可与19世纪和20世纪早期的工业社会的传统的形式相比较……”

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】解析：本题考查近义词辨析。空格句的意思是：“……有些理论家已觉察到向新的后现代或后工业社会发展的趋势。”move和motion都有“移动，行动”意思，不符合句意；development意为“发展”，与of连用；movement意为“运动，趋势”，与to连用，在词义和句法上都符合句子要求。

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】解析：本题考查上下文推理。explicit意为“明确的，明晰的”；notable意为“著明的，显要的”；implicit意为“不言明的，含蓄的”；suggestive意为“提示的，暗示的”。空格中所缺的词是形容词作后置定语，修饰developments。从上下文可看出，在工业化的起始阶段，其发展是不明晰的，因此，正确答案是C。

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】解析：本题考查近义词辨析。emerge意为“浮现，出现”，表示从原来处于隐蔽、不为人知的状态到公开的渐进过程；appear主要表示“出现”在人们的视线中；loom意为“隐约出现，突然出现”，多指使人恐惧的东西；arise意为“出现，发生”，指从简单发展到复杂的因果关系。从文章上下文可知，服务业的兴起是一个从无到有的逐渐发展过程，因此，A是正确答案。

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】解析：本题考查上下文推理。increasing和growing都表示“增加，增长”的意思，在此处不符合句意；continuing意为“持续不断的”，常修饰development，growth等词；continuous意为“连续不断的，接连的”，指中间没有间断，如：a continuous line of cars(络绎不绝的车流)。根据句意，答案是A。