— Lily, can you help me ______? — Sure. Where’s the brush?
A. paint the door B. move the boxes C. mail the letters D. turn off the light
—I always forget what I want to buy when I go to the market.
—Well, you can make a ______ of things you want to buy.
A. habit B. wishC. listD. pack
We know ______ about the new teacher except that she just came back from the US. We hope to know her better.
A. everything B. nothing C. something D. anything
If you buy ________ MP4 player in our store, you can get a watch for ________ free.
A. a; / B. an; the C. an; / D. the; the
Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 in Italy. He is best k 1. as an artist today. One of his famous paintings is called Mona Lisa. However, Leonardo had many other natural abilities. He was Also a great inventor. Many of his i 2. have become important in modern day life.
A 3. Leonardo hated war, he invented many different machines used for war. His most special invention was the machine gun, which was produced and u 4. in war many years later.
By watching the way birds fly, Leonardo tried to find out the secret of f 5. . Among his drawing we can see several objects. We c 6. them as modern flying machines.
Leonardo s 7. many hours thinking about how to make good use of time. He developed ideas for labor-saving(节约劳动力) machines like cutting machines.
Leonardo was a strange man. He didn't eat any meat, which was u 8. in those times. He never published（发表） his ideas and scientific discoveries. He usually used mirror writing, which looks like writing in a m 9. , starting from the right side of the page and moving to the left.
We have very little of his work today. Leonardo f 10. only a few of his paintings. He left many unfinished because he thought they were not perfect. No one in his life time knew how great Leonardo was. We now believe, however, that he was one of the cleverest men the world has ever known.
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 【小题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 __4. stress. The kids and those in their early 5. feel the happiest. Men and women have similar emotional patterns as they grow older. However, women feel sadder, more 6. and worried than men do. |
Conclusion | Happiness 7. with age. That’s because people become more thankful for what they have and control their emotions __8. as they get older. It also 9. them less time to think about bad experiences. |
