政府提供了一些临时性工作岗位，仅仅是为了降低失业率统计数据。

The government offered some ___make-work jobs just to reduce the unemployment statistics.

整理这些过时的数据只是些表面功夫，对项目进展毫无帮助。

Organizing these outdated records is just ___make-work that adds no value to the project.