新东方赵丽词汇课堂 Lesson 141

21. When people become unemployed¹, it is ____ which is often worse than lack of wages. 
    A. laziness   B. poverty   C. idleness   D. inability

pluck  采摘
plead  辩护
probe  调查
blush  脸红

1 unemployed   

adj.失业的，没有工作的；未动用的，闲置的

参考例句：

• There are now over four million unemployed workers in this country.这个国家现有四百万失业人员。
• The unemployed hunger for jobs.失业者渴望得到工作。