题目内容
【题目】
【1】________ (十月)is a great month. We have some interesting and fun things for you.
【2】My chemistry teacher isn't tall or short. He's of medium ________ (身高).
【3】If the temperature drops ________ (低于)zero degree, water will turn into ice.
【4】The Chinese national badminton team ________ (打败)the Japanese team 3-2 in Australia on May 27.
【答案】
【1】October
【2】height
【3】below
【4】beat
【解析】
【1】句意：十月是一个伟大的月份，我们有一些有趣的、好玩的事情给你。October十月， 是一个月份的名称，第一个字母要大写。
【2】句意：我的化学老师不高不矮，他中等身高。height身高，高度，是一个名词。这里be of medium height是固定短语，中等身高。
【3】句意：如果气温低于零度，水就会变成冰。below低于，在…之下，是一个介词。
【4】句意：5月27日，在澳大利亚中国国家羽毛球队以3比2打败了日本队。beat打败，战胜，是一个动词。根据句意和时间状语on May 27可知，这里说的是一件过去的事情，应用过去时态，谓语动词用过去式，beat的过去式还是beat。
【题目】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. |