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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. 【B1】______there are only half the number of jobs in the future, men and women will have to share them. Two people will【B2】______work only twenty hours each【B3】______the forty they are currently【B4】______to. It is a well-known fact that those who suffer from stress at work are often not high-powered executives but【B5】______workers doing boring, 【B6】______jobs, especially those on production lines. Unemployment often has a【B7】______effect on its victims. If we wish to prevent this type of stress and the depression that frequently follows long periods of it, we will have to find ways of educating people to【B8】______this sudden increase in leisure time.
    Many have already【B9】______pills and tablets to【B10】______sleeplessness and anxiety, two of the symptoms of long-term stress and depression. In America, we【B11】______$ 650 million a year on different kinds of medicines. We【B12】______an astonishing three million sleeping tablets every night. 【B13】______these "drug of the mind" can be extremely useful in cases of crisis, the majority of patients would be【B14】______without them.
    The boredom and frustration of unemployment are not the only【B15】______of stress; poor housing, family problems, overcrowding and financial worry are all significant factors. 【B16】______,doctors believe that if people learnt to breathe properly, took more exercise, used their leisure time more【B17】______and expressed their anger instead of【B18】______it up, they would not depend so much on drugs, 【B19】______treat only the【B20】______and not the cause of the stress.
【B15】

选项 A、reasons
B、outcomes
C、consequences
D、causes

答案D

解析 本题考查名词词义辨析。作者试图总结引起人们紧张和压抑症状的原因。[A]reasons“理由”,常与for搭配使用,不是起因,故排除;[B]outcomes“结局,最终的结果”和[C]consequences“结果”也不符合逻辑;再根据短文末句的the cause of the stress,可以确定答案为[D]causes“起因”。
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