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

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] (20)
选项 A、pay
B、incur
C、cover
D、induce
答案 B
解析 词汇辨析题。工作环境的侵蚀作用可能会导致员工付出健康的代价。所以选B项，incur“招致不好的后果”。pay／cover a cost结构中的cost是“费用”之意，不是“代价”，而且主语通常是人或者金钱，用于此处不恰当，所以可排除A和C项；induce做“引起，造成”使用时，通常指药物的效果，不适用于此处。
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