Maybe unemployment isn’t so bad after all. A new study says that having a de

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问题    Maybe unemployment isn’t so bad after all. A new study says that having a demanding, unstable and thankless job may make you even(1)______ than not having a job at all.
   (2)______ that a paid position gives workers purpose and a structured role, researchers had(3)______ thought that having any job would make a person happier than being(4)______. That turns out to be true if you move into a high-quality job—but taking a bad job is(5)______ to mental health.
Australian National University researchers looked at how various psychosocial work attributes affect(6)______. They found that poor-quality jobs— those with high demands, low control over decision making, low job(7)______ and an effort-reward imbalance—had more adverse effects on mental health than joblessness.
Moving from unemployment to a job with high psychosocial quality was associated with(8)______ in mental health, the authors said.(9)______, the mental health of people in the least-satisfying jobs declined the(10)______ over time—and the worse the job, the more it affected workers’ welfare.
These findings(11)______ the importance of employment to a person’s welfare. Rather than seeking a new job, the study suggests, people who are unemployed or(12)______ in lousy work should seek new(13)______ that offer more security, autonomy and a (14)______ workload. But that’s a lot (15)______ said than done.
   (16)______ employers could be persuaded to be more(17)______ of the mental health of their workers— happier employees are a(18)______ to their employers. "The(19)______ of work conditions," the researchers noted, "may(20)______ a health cost, which over the longer term will be both economically and socially counterproductive." [br] (12)

选项 A、limited
B、stuck
C、uninterested
D、submerged

答案 B

解析语义线索题。从事着糟糕工作的人们想要换新工作，但本段最后一句提到，换工作真是说起来容易做起来难，所以这些人常常被糟糕的工作所困住。所以选B项，be stuck in“陷入”，指被自己不喜欢的事情所困扰。

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