单选题 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. (1) there are only half the number of jobs in the future, men and women will have to share them. Two people will (2) work only twenty hours each (3) the forty they are currently (4) to. It is a well-known fact that those who suffer from stress at work are often not high-powered executives but (5) workers doing boring, (6) jobs, especially those on production lines. Unemployment often has a (7) 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 (8) this sudden increase in leisure time.
Many have already (9) pills and tablets to (10) sleeplessness and anxiety, two of the symptoms of long-term stress and depression. In America, we (11) $ 650 million a year on different kinds of medicines. We (12) an astonishing three million sleeping tablets every night. (14) these "drugs of the mind" can be extremely useful in cases of crisis, the majority of patients would be (14) without them.
The boredom and frustration of unemployment are not the only (15) of stress: poor housing, family problems, overcrowding and financial worry are all significant factors. (16) , doctors believe that if people learnt to breathe properly, took more exercise, used their leisure time more (17) and expressed their anger instead of (18) it up, they would not depend so much on drugs, (19) treat only the (20) and not the cause of the stress.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】该句进一步解释说明上句，也是在上句这一条件成立的基础上产生的结果，表示因果关系的选项只有[C]，故排除表示转折关系的[A]otherwise“否则”、表示时间先后的[B]subsequently“随后”和表示并列关系的[D]simultaneously，意为“同时”。

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】instead of意为“而不是”，该句文意为：两个人每人将工作20个小时，而不是他们现在习惯的40个小时。其他选项均不合文意，意思如下：[B]other than“与……不同；除了”，如：There is nobody here other than me.“这里除了我没别人。”[C]no more than“不过、仅仅”，如：He was a kid really, no more than 18 or 19.“他确实是个孩子，不过十八九岁。”[D]as well as“既……又……”。

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】根据句中的high-powered executives(干劲十足的行政人员)，以及workers之后的修饰语如boring等提示，可排除[A]efficient“能干的”和[C]skillful“有技能的”；而[B]deficient“有缺陷的”也不合文意，因此选unskilled，意为“无须技能的”。

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】similar意为“类似的”。文章的主题是失业带给人们压力和抑郁，这点和做重复性劳动是类似或者一致的。[B]same意为“相同的”，常与定冠词the连用，故排除；[C]diverse“多种多样的”和[D]different“不同的”与下文文意不符。

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】科技的发展导致人们有了很多业余时间，过多闲暇时间也会带给人们精神抑郁。因此需要教育人们如何有效地对付增多的业余时间，cope with意为“(正确地)对付”，其他不合文意。[A]idle away“消磨时光”；[C]cut into“缩减”；ED]set aside“留出”。

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】fall back on意为“求助于”，常用于在尝试其他手段失败后转而求助于别的，没有fall on这种搭配；[B]switched to意为“从一个地方转换到另外一个地方”，而上下文没有给出其他选择，故排除；[C]held on“坚持”也不合文意。因此选[D]，turned to意为“求助于”，即开始做某事。

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】因为主从句有转折关系，并且作者对服药持反对态度，可以推断如果不吃药，人们也不会恶化、变得不好或者受折磨，因此排除[A]deteriorating“恶化”，[C]worsening“变坏”和[D]suffering“受折磨”，故better off为正确答案，意为“境况不错”，符合文意。

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】作者试图总结引起人们紧张和压抑症状的起因。[A]reasons是理由，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”也不合逻辑；再根据短文末句的the cause of the stress，可以确定答案为[D]，cause意为“起因”。

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】根据上文，人要expressed their anger而不要强忍怒火，故此处应选bottling，与up搭配意为“抑制(怒气或怨气)”。其他词与up搭配时的意思为：making up“构成；编造；和解”，putting up“提出；支起”，bringing up“抚养大”，此三项均不合文意。