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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."
(9)
选项 A、Therefore
B、And
C、Otherwise
D、Meanwhile
答案D
解析 句意关系题。前一句讲得到好工作会促进精神健康，这句讲差工作会降低精神健康，所以是对比或者转折关系，所以选meanwhile“与此同时”，可用于比较两种情况，或两个方面，比如Stress can be extremely damaging to your health．Exercise，meanwhile，can reduce its effects(压力对你的健康特别有害，但是锻炼可以减少危害)。
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