Question

閱讀下面短文，根據短文完成表格中所缺信息，每空一詞.（共10小題，每小題1分，計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

【答案】

 

1.Happiness

2.team

3.results\findings

4.less

5.most

6.seventies

7.stressed

8.increases

9.better

10.takes

【解析】

試題分析：這篇短文主要介紹了亞瑟斯通的精神病學和行為科學在紐約石溪大學領導了一項關于年齡和幸福感的關系的研究。

1.根據第一段大意，年齡更大，會感覺到更幸福。故標題是年齡和幸福的關系。故填Happiness

2.根據第三段His team found 。。。可知調查者是亞瑟斯通和他的團隊，故填team

3.根據表格右側的內容可知是調查的結構，故填results\findings

4.根據第一段people generally become happier and experience less worry after age fifty.可知通常人們在50歲后變得更幸福同時經歷更少的擔憂，故填less

5.根據His team found that levels of stress were the highest among adults between the ages of twenty-two and twenty-five.可知年齡在22到25之間的成年人焦慮感最高。故填most

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

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

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

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

10.根據They also spend less time thinking about bad experiences.他們花費更少的時間考慮壞的經歷。故填takes

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