New surveys suggest that people are more stressed and working longer hours than ever with technological tools constantly ________.

A．updating  B．updates

C．updated  D．to update

C　考查非謂語動詞。句意：新的調(diào)查顯示，隨著技術工具的不斷更新，人們的壓力比以前更大，工作時間更長。分析句子結構可知，update和technological tools之間是邏輯上的動賓關系，故用update的過去分詞形式。

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