Question

阅读下面短文，根据短文完成表格中所缺信息，每空一词.（共10小题，每小题1分，计10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.results\findings

4.less

5.most

6.seventies

7.stressed

8.increases

9.better

10.takes

【解析】

试题分析：这篇短文主要介绍了亚瑟斯通的精神病学和行为科学在纽约石溪大学领导了一项关于年龄和幸福感的关系的研究。

1.根据第一段大意，年龄更大，会感觉到更幸福。故标题是年龄和幸福的关系。故填Happiness

2.根据第三段His team found …可知调查者是亚瑟斯通和他的团队，故填team

3.根据表格右侧的内容可知是调查的结构，故填results\findings

4.根据第一段people generally become happier and experience less worry after age fifty.可知通常人们在50岁后变得更幸福同时经历更少的担忧，故填less

5.根据His team found that levels of stress were the highest among adults between the ages of twenty-two and twenty-five.可知年龄在22到25之间的成年人焦虑感最高。故填most

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

7.根据However, women at all ages reported more sadness, stress and worry than men did.故填stressed

8.根据So why would happiness increase with age?故填increases，增加。

9.根据they become more thankful for what they have and have better control of their emotions.故填 better

10.根据They also spend less time thinking about bad experiences.他们花费更少的时间考虑坏的经历。故填takes

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