stop smoking; because of; are made to; such as; have no choice |
From January1, 2009 Hong Kong banned(禁止）smoking in most public places. The places include restaurant, workplaces, schools or karaoke bars. And from July1, 2009, it banned some other public places 1. nightclubs, bars or bathhouses. Even smoking in some outdoor places is against the law. For example, beaches, sports ground, museums and most areas of public parks. Hong Kong hopes the ban can prevent people from smoking passively. What’s passive smoking? When people smoke in a restaurant or on a bus, others 2. breathe the smoke too. They don’t want to smoke but they 3. . It does harm to people’s health. And it’ll be better if more people in Hong Kong give up smoking 4. the ban.
If someone breaks the ban, he will have to pay up to HK$5, 000. Now more and more citizen begin to 5. . Today’s Hong Kong is becoming more and more attractive.
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 【小题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 __4. stress. The kids and those in their early 5. feel the happiest. Men and women have similar emotional patterns as they grow older. However, women feel sadder, more 6. and worried than men do. |
Conclusion | Happiness 7. with age. That’s because people become more thankful for what they have and control their emotions __8. as they get older. It also 9. them less time to think about bad experiences. |
