Question

A)阅读下面短文，根据所读内容，完成表格，每空一词。（每空1分）

  Are people less happy or happier when they get older? If your answer is “happier”, then you are right, based on a study published five years ago. It found that people generally become happier and experience less worry after age fifty. In fact, it found that by the age of eighty-five, people are happier with their life than they were at eighteen.

    The findings came from a Gallup survey of more than three hundred and forty thousand adults in the United States in 2008. At that time, the people were between the ages of eighteen and eighty-five.

    Arthur Stone in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Stony Brook University in New York led the study. His team found that levels of stress were the highest among adults between the ages of twenty-two and twenty-five. Stress levels dropped sharply after people reached their fifties.

    Levels of happiness were the highest among the kids and those in their early seventies.

The survey also found that men and women have similar emotional patterns as they grow older. However, women at all ages reported more sadness, stress and worry than men did.

So why would happiness increase with age? One theory is that, as people get older, they become more thankful for what they have and have better control of their emotions. They also spend less time thinking about bad experiences.

Title: Relationship Between Age and     1.      

The elements of the survey	Time: 2008 Place: in the United States Researcher: Arthur Stone and his    2.  Targets: 340,000 adults
The    3.   of the survey	Generally people become happier and feel   4.   worried after age 50. By the age of 85, people are happier with their life than they were at 18. Adults between the ages of 22 and 25 have the          5.    stress. The kids and those in their early    6.   feel the happiest. Men and women have similar emotional patterns as they grow older. However, women feel sadder, more    7.   and worried than men do.
Conclusion	Happiness    8.    with age. That’s because people become more thankful for what they have and control their emotions   9.  as they get older. It also   10.   them less time to think about bad experiences.

Answer

1.Happiness

2.team

3.findings/results

4.less

5.most

6.seventies

7.stressed

8.increases

9.better

10.takes

【解析】

试题分析：本文讲述了美国纽约的一名大学教授Arthur Stone和他的研究小队进行的一项关于年龄和幸福指数的一份调查报告，并针对调查报告结果提供了一些理论解读。

1.开头一句Are people less happy or happier when they get older?和最后一段的So why would happiness increase with age?点明了本文的主旨，故答案为Happiness。

2.第三段第一句介绍了这次调查的负责人是Arthur Stone，后面的一句是说他的团队发现的调查结果，所以调查是由Arthur Stone和他的团队共同完成的；故答案为team

3.根据短文内容可知表格右面的四项都是调查结果；故答案为findings/results

4.根据第一段第三句It found that people generally become happier and experience less worry after age fifty.可知故答案为less

5.根据第三段His team found that levels of stress were the highest among adults between the ages of twenty-two and twenty-five.可知故答案为most

6.第四段Levels of happiness were the highest among the kids and those in their early seventies.说明最幸福的人群是孩子和七十岁早期的人群；故答案为seventies

7.根据第五段However, women at all ages reported more sadness, stress and worry than men did.可知，各个年龄段的女性要比男性具有更大的伤感、压力和焦虑；故答案为stressed

8.最后一段第一句So why would happiness increase with age?表明幸福是随着年龄的增加而增长的，故答案为increases

9.根据最后一段中as people get older, they become more thankful for what they have and have better control of their emotions.可知，年长的人更容易控制自己的情绪；故答案为better

10.最后一句They also spend less time thinking about bad experiences.点明年长的人不愿花费时间去想那些糟糕的经历；故答案为takes

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