However, what the researchers did find was evidence of greater mental stress.The experts found that promotion gives people, on average, 10 percent more mental stress and up to 20 percent less time to visit their doctors in the event of illness.Matt Smith, a Scottish health expert, said mental stress is caused by working long hours.He said, “ When someone is promoted there might be even more pressure to work longer hours and therefore they can’t afford the time to care about their health.”

　　8.According to the text we can learn that work promotion _________.

　　A.is traditionally believed to be harmful to people’s health

　　B.decreases people’s self-confidence and happiness

　　C.gives people more chances to have health checks

　　D.can help raise people’s income to some extent

　　9.The underlined word “deteriorates” in the second paragraph means “becomes ________”.

　　A.satisfying

　　B.doubtful

　　C.optimistic

　　D.worse

　　10.What do we know from Boyce’s research?

　　A.It analyzed many aspects of the promoted individuals’ lives.

　　B.It surveyed 1,000 people in the world.

　　C.It showed how people gained work promotion.

　　D.It proved that work promotion may lead to a short-term change in health.

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