Directions:In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a pst of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefply before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single pne through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

The things people make, and the way they make them, determine how cities grow and decpne, and influence how empires rise and fall. So, any disruption to the world’s factories 26_____. And that disruption is surely coining. Factories are being digitised, filled with new sensor and new computers to make them quicker, more 27_____, and more efficient.

Robots are breaking free from the cages that surround them, learning new skills and new ways of working. And 3D printers have long 28_____ a world where you can make anything, anywhere, from a computerised design. That vision is 29_____ closer to reapty. These forces will lead to cleaner factories, producing better goods at lower prices, personapsed to our individual needs and desires. Humans will be 30_____ many of the dirty, repetitive, and dangerous jobs that have long been a 31_____ of factory pfe.

Greater efficiency 32_____ means fewer people can do the same work. Yet factory bosses in many developed countries are worried about a lack of skilled human workers—and see 33_____ and robots as a solution. But economist Helena Leurent says this period of rapid change in manufacturing is a 34_____ opportunity to make the world a better place. “Manufacturing is the one system where you have got the biggest source of innovation, the biggest source of economic growth, and the biggest source of great jobs in the past. You can see it changing. That’s an opportunity to 35_____ that system differently, and if we can, it will have tremendous significance.”

A) automation   B) concerns

C) enormously   D) fantastic

E) fascinated   F) feature

G) flexible   H) inevitably

I) interaction   J) leaning

K) matters   L) moving

M) promised   N) shape