Read the article below and decide which answer best fits each space. Đọc đoạn văn dưới và chọn từ thích hợp cho mỗi chỗ trống.


Quite apart from the economic similarity between present-day automation and the mechanization, which has been proceeding for centuries, it must also be stressed that even in the United State, automation is by no means the only factor ___(1)___ people from existing jobs. The increasing number of unneeded workers in ___(2)___ years has been the result of much more simple and old-fashioned influences: farm laborers have been ___(3)___ out of work by bigger tractors, miners by the cheapness of oil, and railway-men by better roads. It is quite wrong, therefore, to think of automation as some new monster whose arrival ___(4)___ the existence of employment in the same way that the arrival of myxomatosis threatened the existence of the rabbit. Automation is one ___(5)___ of technological changes (changes in tastes, changes in social patterns, changes in organization) which ___(6)___ in certain jobs disappearing and certain skills ceasing to be required. And even in America, which has a level of technology and output per ___(7)___ much in ___(8)___ of Britain’s, there is no ___(9)___ that the ___(10)___ of change is actually speeding up. Nevertheless changes in the amount of labor needed to produce a certain output are proceeding fairly rapidly in America – and in other countries – and may proceed more rapidly in future. Indeed it is one of the main objects of economic policy.