Healthy people with stressful jobs who work long hours but get little satisfaction from what they do have twice the risk of dying from heart disease as satisfied employees, according to a study. Job stress has been known to cause heart problems in people who already have cardiovascular disease (心血管病). Finnish scientists have now shown that even in healthy people the pressures of work can take their toll. High blood pressure, lack of exercise, smoking and being overweight contribute to heart disease—a leading killer in many industrialized countries.
But Mika Kivimaki, of the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, and his colleagues, who studied the medical histories of 812 healthy Finnish men and women in a metal industry company over 25 years, said job stress also plays an important role.
Workers who had the highest job-related stress levels at the start of the study were more than twice as likely to die of heart disease, according to the study published in The British Medical Journal. Work stress involves too much work as well as a lack of satisfaction and feeling undervalued and unappreciated. Many people work long hours but if the effort is rewarding the stress is minimized.
The British Heart Foundation said the results support earlier research showing that people in jobs with low control, such as manual(體力的) workers, could be as great risk of heart disease than other employees. “ It is advisable for people to try to minimize levels of stress at work and for employees to allow people to have more control at work and to be rewarded for their successes,” the foundation said in a statement.
小題1:Healthy people may die from heart disease of ____________.
A．too much job stress B．working too hardC．feeling valuedD．being satisfied
小題2:Which one of the following is NOT right according to this passage?
A．High blood pressure is likely to cause heart disease.
B．Being overweight may cause heart disease.
C．Job stress is most likely to cause heart disease.
D．Working long hours must cause heart disease.
小題3:The underlined word “minimized” in the third paragraph means “_________”.
A．increasedB．reducedC．raisedD．cured
小題4:The author’s purpose in writing the passage is to _________.
A．a(chǎn)dvise people not to work long hours
B．suggest that everyone be satisfied with everything
C．a(chǎn)sk us to learn to enjoy ourselves
D．tell us that job stress threatens our health nowadays.

小題1:A
小題2:D
小題3:B
小題4:D

試題分析：文章講述了工作壓力的危害。年輕人長(zhǎng)時(shí)間的工作得不到回報(bào)，加上高壓的影響，突發(fā)心臟病的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)很高。同時(shí)，高血壓、缺乏鍛煉、抽煙、肥胖等都會(huì)增加心臟病的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)。年輕人應(yīng)該學(xué)會(huì)減壓，雇主應(yīng)該給員工更多的自由以釋放壓力。
小題1:根據(jù)第一段“Healthy people with stressful jobs who work long hours but get little satisfaction from what they do have twice the risk of dying from heart disease”可知，長(zhǎng)時(shí)間從事壓力大的工作并獲得很少的滿足感的健康人，死于心臟病的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)比較高，故選A。
小題2:根據(jù)第一段最后兩行“High blood pressure, lack of exercise, smoking and being overweight contribute to heart disease”可知，高血壓、缺乏鍛煉、抽煙、肥胖等都會(huì)增加心臟病的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)，長(zhǎng)時(shí)間工作不一定導(dǎo)致心臟病。故選D。
小題3:Many people work long hours but if the effort is rewarding the stress is minimized.許多人工作時(shí)間都很長(zhǎng)，但是如果他們的努力得到了回報(bào)，壓力就會(huì)減少。A增加；B減少；C提高；D治愈。故選B。
小題4:文章講述了工作壓力給年輕人帶來(lái)的危害，長(zhǎng)時(shí)間的工作得不到回報(bào)，在高壓下，突發(fā)心臟病的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)很高。同時(shí)，高血壓、缺乏鍛煉、抽煙、肥胖等都會(huì)增加心臟病的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)。年輕人應(yīng)該學(xué)會(huì)減壓，雇主應(yīng)該給員工更多的自由以釋放壓力。故選D。
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