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If you’ re among the two-thirds of working women who earn their living in offices, it’ s far too early to let out a sigh of reli

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问题     If you’ re among the two-thirds of working women who earn their living in offices, it’ s far too early to let out a sigh of relief about how healthy and happy your working environment is. If you are among that number, however, you probably already know that.
    Without question, office work doesn’ t pose the risks or dangers of jobs in manufacturing, mining, or even agriculture. The closest many of us come to working with a chemical is when we get toner smudges on our hands from photocopies or apply dabs of correcting fluid. By most people’ s standards, even the dingiest office beats an assembly line, factory, or a mine for atmosphere.
    A white collar isn’ t exactly protective clothing, however. More than 40,000 disabling injuries(including back and neck injuries and muscle pulls)and 200 safety-related deaths occur in offices each year. There are also considerable other stresses associated with office work, including boredom, repetitiveness, and low status, which can affect health. One thing is certain: as the numbers of office workers grow, so too will office health problems.
    In the 1950s and early 1960s the office had begun its climb to economic fame and power, jockeying into position to replace industry as the largest employer in the United States. It was the beginning of what author John Naisbitt calls the "information age" in his influential book Megatrends, "Now," he says, "more than 65 percent of us work with information as programmers, teachers, clerks, secretaries, accountants, stock brokers, managers, insurance people, bureaucrats, lawyers, bankers, and technicians. And many more workers hold information jobs within manufacturing companies."
With a quotation from John Naisbitt, the author implies that we are ______.
选项 A、expecting the office work to be the largest employer in the U.S.
B、expecting more office health problems
C、expecting a decline in industry
D、entering the information age
答案B
解析 根据原文最后一段引用John Naisbitt的话，作者指出了有大量的人在从事办公室工作(more than 65 percent of us work with information as…)。结合全文主旨(主要阐明现代社会中办公室工作的危害)可以推断出，作者在暗示：因为从事的人多，现在我们面临的“办公室健康问题也越来越多”，这正是B选项之意，故B为正确答案。
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