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题组层级快练(八) Ⅰ.完形填空 It is said that being unemployed for a long period is bad for your health. Studies have shown that ___1___ work can be associated with a drop in life expectancy and a ___2___ in psychological problems such as depression and anxiety. For the long-term unemployment, there are ___3___ rates of several dangerous health problems, which ___4___ that the unemployment crisis is also a public-health crisis. The numbers, ___5___ by Gallup on Wednesday, show that the longer someone is unemployed, the more ___6___ he is to be obese or have high blood pressure. As Gallup notes, there are probably ___7___ factors here: some unemployed people ___8___ do things that cause health problems, but others may have existing health issues that ___9___ it hard for them to find or keep ___10___. There is also a considerable ___11___ in the obesity rates between people who have been unemployed for a year and those who ___12___ without work for less than two weeks. The unemployment ___13___ last reported by Department of Labor was 6.3 percent, ___14___ the unemployment rate isn’t quite a useful ___15___ now. Another indicator is the labor force participation rate, which was just short ___16___ 63 percent in May, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. There were 9.8 million Americans out of a(n)___17___ in May, according to the BLS. Nearly a third of these people — 3.4 million — were the ___18___ unemployed. And their health issues were being ___19___ by a health care system that, we were reminded earlier this week, was considered both massively expensive and ___20___. | 
