题目内容
阅读下面材料，在空白处填人适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Old age may not sound 10._____________ (excite). But recent findings provide good news for older people and for people 11. _________ (worry) about getting older.
The findings came from 12._____ survey of morethan 340,000 adults in the United States. The Gallup Organization questioned 13. _____________ by telephone in 2008. At that time, the people were between the ages of eighteen and eighty-five.
The researchers asked questions about emotions like happiness, 14.___________ (sad) and worry.Theyalso asked about mental or emotional stress. The research team found that levels of stress were 15._________ (high) among adults between the ages of twenty-two and twenty-five. Stress levels
dropped 16. _________ (sharp) after people reached their fifties.
Happiness 17.__________ highest among the youngest adults and those 18. _____________ their early seventies. The study also showed that men and women have similar emotional patterns as they grow older. 19.____________， women at all ages reported more sadness, stress and worry than men.
Ⅲ.语法填空
10.exciting sound为系动词，exciting表示"令人兴奋的"。
11.(who are)worried worried作后置定语修饰people,根据短语be worried about可知答案。
12.a用a泛指"一项关于……的调査"。
13.them question用作动词，其宾语是340，000 adults，故用them 指代。
14. sadness sadness与happiness,worry词性~■致。
15.highest 根据后面的among adults可知用最高级形式。
16.sharply 修饰动词drop用副词形式。drop sharply表示"大幅度下降"。
17.was分析句子成分可知缺少be动词，主语是happiness，语篇是过去时，故填was。
18. in "in one's+基数词复数"表示"在某人……岁时"。
19. However前后句之间是一种转折关系，再根据空后边的逗号， 根据用词习惯可知应该填however,
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