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. 【C1】______ there are only half the number of jobs in the future, men and women will have to share them. Two people will 【C2】______ work only twenty hours each 【C3】______ the forty they are currently 【C4】______ to. It is a well-known fact that those who suffer from stress at work are often not high-powered executives but 【C5】______ workers doing boring, 【C6】______ jobs, especially those on production lines. Unemployment often has a 【C7】______ 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 【C8】______ this sudden increase in leisure time.
    Many have already 【C9】______ pills and tablets to 【C10】______ sleeplessness and anxiety, two of the symptoms of long-term stress and depression. In America, we 【C11】______ $650 million a year on different kinds of medicines. We 【C12】______ an astonishing three million sleeping tablets every night. 【C13】______ these "drug of the mind" can be extremely useful in cases of crisis, the majority of patients would be 【C14】______ without them.
    The boredom and frustration of unemployment are not the only 【C15】______ of stress: poor housing, family problems, overcrowding and financial worry are all significant factors. 【C16】______, doctors believe that if people learnt to breathe properly, took more exercise, used their leisure time more 【C17】______ and expressed their anger instead of 【C18】______ it up, they would not depend so much on drugs, 【C19】______ treat only the 【C20】______ and not the cause of the stress.
【C14】

选项 A、deteriorating
B、better off
C、worsening
D、suffering

答案B

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