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If the technological revolution continues to have its effects, there will be fewer and fewer jobs available, particularly to sch

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问题     If the technological revolution continues to have its effects, there will be fewer and fewer jobs available, particularly to school-leavers and those over the age of fifty. If there are only half the number of jobs in the future, men and women will have to share them. Two people will therefore work only twenty hours each instead of the forty they are currently accustomed to. It is a well-known fact that those who suffer from stress at work are often not high-powered executives but unskilled workers doing boring, repetitive jobs, especially those on production lines. Unemployment often has a similar effect on its victims. If we wish to prevent this type of stress and the depression(沮丧)that frequently follows long periods of it, we will have to find ways of educating people to cope with this sudden increase in leisure time.
    Many have already turned to pills and tablets to combat sleeplessness and anxiety, two of the symptoms of long-term stress and depression. In America, we spend $ 650 million a year on different kinds of medicines. We swallow a staggering(大得惊人的)three million sleeping tablets every night. Although these "drugs of the mind" can be extremely useful in cases of crisis, the majority of patients would be better off without them.
    The boredom and frustration of unemployment are not the only causes of stress: poor housing, family problems, overcrowding and financial worry are all significant factors. Nevertheless, doctors believe that if people learnt to breathe properly, took more exercise, used their leisure time more actively and expressed their anger instead of bottling it up, they would not depend so much on drugs, which treat only the symptoms and not the cause of the stress. If doctors refused prescriptions more often and discouraged patients with minor ailments from visiting the clinic, the country would have more money to spend on improving leisure facilities and adult education, which are at present inadequate in many parts of the country. Moreover, doctors would have more time to spend on those patients in real need of their help.
Questions:
If people want to reduce stress and depression, what attitude should they take according to some doctors?
选项 A、They should take kind of positive attitude.
B、They should take the attitude of wait-and-see.
C、They should take the negative attitude.
D、They should follow their fate.
答案A
解析 第5题问如果人们想要减轻精神紧张和情绪低落的状态，按照某些医生所说，人们应该采取何种生活态度。此题中有明显的提示词according to some doctors，由此可以利用查阅式阅读法和研究式阅读法，我们发现与本题相关的信息在第三段，此段指出，然而，医生认为如果人们学会正确地呼吸，多做锻炼，更积极地利用自己的闲暇时间，将自己的愤怒表达出来而不是憋在心里，他们就不会那么依赖药物了。根据这些句子，我们可以推断出一些医生提倡人们应该以一种积极乐观的态度对待生活。所以，本题的正确答案是A：以一种积极的态度对待生活。
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