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Maybe unemployment isn’t so bad after all. A new study says that having a demanding, unstable and thankless job may make you eve

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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."
(8)
选项 A、increases
B、growth
C、improvements
D、development
答案C
解析 词义辨析题。之前失业，现在得到一份社会心理质量较高的工作，这对于精神健康应该有积极影响，所以选C项，improvement“发展，提高”。increases“增加，增长”，强调数量的增加，不符合此处的语境；growth“生长过程，发展”，着重成长成熟的发展过程，不适合此处的语境；development“发展”，当表示某方面的发展时，后面通常接of，如development of society。
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