Question

Old age may not sound exciting. But recent findings offer good news for older people and for people worried about getting older.
Researchers found that people become happier and experience less worry after they reach the age of fifty. In fact, they say by the age of eighty-five, people are happier with their life than they were when they were eighteen years old.
The findings came from a survey of more than three hundred forty thousand adults in the United States. The Gallup Organization questioned them by telephone in two thousand eight. At that time, the people were between the ages of eighteen and eighty-five.
The researchers asked questions about emotions like happiness, sadness and worry. They also asked about mental or emotional stress.
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 highest among adults between the ages of twenty-two and twenty-five.
The findings showed that stress levels dropped sharply after people reached their fifties.
Happiness was highest among the youngest adults and those in their early seventies. The people least likely to report feeling negative emotions were those in their seventies and eighties.
The study also showed 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.
The findings appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers say they do not know why happiness increases as people get older. One theory is that, as people grow older, they grow more thankful for what they have and have better control of their emotions. They also spend less time thinking about bad experiences.
Professor Stone says the emotional patterns could be linked to changes in how people see the world, or maybe even changes in brain chemistry.
The researchers also considered possible influences like having young children, being unemployed or being single. But they found that influences like these did not affect the levels of happiness and well-being related to age.
【小題1】 What is the report about?

A．The relationship between happiness and age.

B．The influence between happiness and unemployment.

C．The tendency between family and health.

D．The expectation between age and children.

【小題2】Suppose John is 90 years old and Mike is 24, which of the following is True about them according to the research?

A．John is happier and more energetic than Mike.

B．Mike is happier but weaker than John.

C．John is more sad and worried than Mike.

D．Mike is more worried and depressed than John.

【小題3】 One of the possible reasons why the older one gets, the happier one becomes is that _______.

A．they have had enough bad experiences

B．they become more grateful about the things they own

C．they have found it easy to forget their pains and pressures

D．they have lost their ability to control themselves

【小題4】 Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A．Having young children affects the levels of happiness of the old.

B．Emotional patterns can change the physical structures of human’s brains.

C．It’s reported that women at all ages are happier than men.

D．Why happiness increases as people get older is still an unsolved mystery.

Answer 1

【小題1】A
【小題2】D
【小題3】B
【小題4】D

解析試題分析：本文敘述了研究人員發(fā)現(xiàn)，當(dāng)人們年過50歲后，他們變得更快樂，也少了一份擔(dān)心。研究人員發(fā)現(xiàn)，人們在85歲時(shí)的生活幸福指數(shù)比他們18歲時(shí)更高。研究人員詢問了一些情感方面的問題，例如幸福、悲傷、憂慮。他們還問到了關(guān)于精神或情緒緊張的問題。研究人員表示，他們不知道為何人們變老之后幸福感會(huì)增加。其中一種理論是，隨著人們逐漸變老，他們對自己擁有的更加感恩，更能夠控制自己的情緒。他們用來思考不愉快的經(jīng)歷的時(shí)間也更少。
【小題1】主旨大意題。根據(jù)全篇短文來看主要談及的是人的年齡和幸福指數(shù)的關(guān)系，故選A。
【小題2】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)Researchers found that people become happier and experience less worry after they reach the age of fifty. 故選D。
【小題3】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)as people grow older, they grow more thankful for what they have 故選 B。
【小題4】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)Researchers say they do not know why happiness increases as people get older.故選D。
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