It is said that being unemployed for a long period is bad for your health. Studies have shown that  21    work can be associated with a drop in life expectancy and a  22  in psychological problems such as depression and anxiety. For the long-term unemployed, there are  23  rates of several dangerous health problem, which  24  that the unemployment crisis is also a public-health crisis.

 

  The numbers,  25  by Gallup on Wednesday, show that the longer someone is unemployed, the more  26  he is to be obese or have high blood pressure. As Gallup notes, there are probably  27  factors here: some unemployed  people  28  do things that cause health problems, but others may have existing health issues that  29  it hard for them to find or keep  30  .

 

There is also a considerable  31  in the obesity rates between people who have been unemployed for a year and those who  32  without work for less than two weeks.

 

The unemployment  33  last reported by Department of Labor was 6.3 percent,  34  the unemployment rate isn’t quite a useful  35  now. Another indicator is the labor force participation rate, which was just short  36  63percent in May, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. There were 9.8 million Americans out of a(n)  37  in May, according to the BLS. Nearly a third of these people—3.4million—were the  38  unemployed. And their health issues were being  39  by a health care system that, as we were reminded earlier this week, was considered both massively expensive and  40  .

 

21.A.getting B.keeping C.losing D.finding

 

22.A.rise B.fall C.change D.lift

 

23.A.lower B.higher C.greater D.wider

 

24.A.advises B.recommends C.promises D.suggests

 

25.A.released B.added C.engaged D.involved

 

26.A.possible B.impossible C.likely D.probable

 

27.A.simple B.few C.unknown D.multiple

 

28.A.should B.win C.may D.must

 

29.A.solve B.make C.cause D.lead

 

30.A.work B.health C.wealth D.friendship

 

31.A.amount B.similarity C.reasons D.difference

 

32.A.turn B.go C.become D.grow

 

33.A.rate B.price C.effect D.outcome

 

34.A.because B.until C.though D.unless

 

35.A.means B.approach C.symptom D.indicator

 

36.A.of B.about C.around D.above

 

37.A.place B.job C.order D.control

 

38.A.short-term B.recently C.long-term D.forever

 

39.A.considered B.cured C.promoted D.treated

 

40.A.ineffective B.unimportant C.uninterested D.unrelated

 

完型填空答案： 21-25 CABDA   26-30 CDCBA   31-35 DBACD  36-40  ABCDA