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 50. In fact, they say by the age of 85, people are happier with their life than they were when they were 18 years old.

The findings came from a survey of more than 340,000 adults in the United States. The Gallup Organization questioned them by telephone in 2008. At that time, the people were between the ages of 18 and 85. 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 24 and 25. The findings showed that stress levels dropped sharply after people reached their fifties.

The study also showed that men and women have similar feeling patterns as they grow older. However, women at all ages reported more sadness, stress and worry than men.

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 feelings. They so 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.

1.According to the survey of the Gallup Organization people are most likely to become happier      .

A．when they are between the ages of 18 and 85 B．when they come to their old age

C．when they are in their twenties             D．when they are 18 years old

2.You may have the highest level of stress when you are at the age of      .

A．20               B．25               C．35               D．40

3.According to Arthur Stone, old people may      .

A．have a positive attitude towards their life     B．know how to spend money wisely

C．dream about good things every day          D．control their behaviors better

4.Who would probably show the greatest interest in the passage?

A．Those who are worried about getting old     B．Those who are single and unemployed

C．Those who feel unhappy all the time         D．Those who suffer from mental stress

5.What would be the best title for the passage?

A．Getting Older Means Getting Happier        B．The Young Are Happier Than the Old

C．Women Are Easier to Be Happy in Life        D．The Younger, the Happier

You have probably heard the expression，“It’s raining cats and dogs outside．”That means 16  it’s raining very hard I not that  17  cats and dogs are falling from the  18  ．However，one day in June，1882，it really did rain  19  over Dubuque，Iowa．The frogs  20  falling along with hailstones(冰雹)during a  21  storm．

    Hail is formed when drops of rainwater are  22  by heavy winds and are carried high up into the air．There the raindrops become frozen．Many drops may freeze  23  to form balls of ice；these ice balls，or hailstones，then  24  to earth．

    During the storm in Dubuque，the strong winds lifted small frogs from nearby ponds(池塘) 25  the air along with raindrops．When some of these frogs became covered with ice，both hailstones and“frog-stones”fell onto the ground．

1.A．that       B．how        C．why        D．if

2.A．careless    B． blind       C．dead        D．real

3.A．hill       B．tower       C．sky         D．building

4.A．cats       B．frogs       C．dogs        D．birds

5.A．stopped    B．enjoyed     C．began       D．forgot

6.A．popular    B．terrible      C．weekly      D．common

7.A．divided    B．a(chǎn)dded       C．changed      D．caught

8.A．together    B．a(chǎn)lone       C．so           D．a(chǎn)lmost

9.A．hold       B．lose        C．keep         D．fall

10.A．from       B．into        C．a(chǎn)fter         D．by

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For Luo Xinying, sharing a textbook with a classmate is not a problem at all. The 15-year-old feels happy to be back to class.

　　A total of 355 schools in Ya’an, Sichuan Province, were closed after the 7.0-magnitude(級) earthquake struck the area on the morning of April 20, 2013.

　　Luo, along with thousands of students in the earthquake-hit area, will take the high school entrance examination from June12 to14.

　  The teen goes to Longmen Chenyang Hope School, the largest school in Longmen Village, Lushan County. Nearly 80 students at the school went back to class in a tent on April 25.

The village is among the hardest hit by the earthquake. Students elsewhere in the earthquake-hit area returned to class the day before. Students who face college or high school entrance exams were first to come back.

　　Some students are worried about the high school entrance exam and they are frightened of aftershocks(余震) all the time.

Schools in the earthquake-hit area have offered crisis counseling(災(zāi)后心理輔導(dǎo)) to those students who need help.

1.How does Luo Xinying feel when he/she is back to class?

2.How many schools in Ya’an, Sichuan Province were closed after the earthquake?

3.When will Luo take the high school entrance examination?

4.Longmen is one of the hardest earthquake-hit villages, isn’t it?

5.請將劃線句子翻譯成漢語。

Mr. White was holding a party at home to celebrate his sixtieth birthday. To make him happy, one of his women friends __21__ to sing a song for him. Now she was singing. One guest turned to a __22__ by his side and criticized the singer.

“What a __23__ voice!" he said. "Do you know __24__ she is?"

“Yes," was the answer, " She is my wife. "

“Oh, I beg your pardon,” the man said. "Of course her voice isn't bad, __25__ the song is very bad. I wondered who wrote that awful song?”

“I did," was the answer.

1.A. dreamed   B. decided     C. forgot    D. remembered

2.A. woman     B. girl       C. man     D. boy

3.A. terrible    B. beautiful    C. exciting   D. sweet

4.A. what    B. who       C. where     D. which

5.A. and    B. or      C. so      D. but

My name is Li Ming. I’m a student   21  the No. 1 Middle School. There are many   22  in our school: the English Club, the Art Club, the Music Club   23  more. I’m in the Music Club.
  24  have a talent (才藝) show at our school every   25 . The students from those different (不同的) clubs can   26  their talents. They can sing, dance and 27  pictures. They can   28  the guitar (吉他), the piano and the drums (鼓). We all like the   29  very much. This year I   30  to sing an English song at the show. I hope they’ll like my song.