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A. Losing healthcare benefits.B. Less ability to care for a family member with a long illness.C. A heavy pressure on family relationships.D. All of the above. 14)
A. Their health improved but their emotional functioning was poor.B. Their health worsened but their emotional functioning improved.C. Their health and emotional functioning were both poor.D. Both their health and emotional functioning improved. 15)
A. How to find new jobs.B. How to overcome depression after job loss.C. Long-lasting depression from job loss.D. Depression from undesirable reemployment. 参考答案：
11) B 12) A 13) D 14) C 15) C 听力文本：
While it may not be surprising that job loss and the resulting financial pressure can lead to depression, new study findings by Dr. Howard Price of the University of Ohio show that this and other negative consequences of unemployment can last for up to two years, even after a person gets another job.
It is not simply the loss of employment that keeps individuals in a prolonged state of depression or otherwise poor health, but rather the series of negative events that follows that loss. It is the crises that follow job loss that are more damaging than the loss itself.
Dr. Price and his colleagues investigated the link between job loss and depression, damaged functioning and poor health in a study of 756 job-seekers who were involuntarily unemployed for roughly three months or less and had no hopes of being recalled to their former positions. The study participants were 33 years old on average, and most had completed high school.
Overall, the financial pressure that resulted from the partic