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] (2)

选项 A、Given
B、Supposing
C、Provided
D、Now

答案 A

解析 语法题。此处引导一个原因状语从句,作为后面主句的原因,所以选Given that“考虑到,鉴于”。Supposing that“假定”和Provided that“假若”,均用于引导条件状语从句,不符合此处的语境,可以排除;Now that“既然,由于”,也是引导原因状语从句,但是通常now that要引出一个现在正在发生的新情况,比如Now that everyone is here,let’s start work.现在人都齐了,咱们开始干吧。所以该选项也可排除。
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