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Do people get happier or more foul-tempered as they age? Stereotypes of irritable neighbors【C1】______, scientists have been tryi
Do people get happier or more foul-tempered as they age? Stereotypes of irritable neighbors【C1】______, scientists have been tryi
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Do people get happier or more foul-tempered as they age? Stereotypes of irritable neighbors【C1】______, scientists have been trying to answer this question for decades, and the results have been【C2】______Now a study of several thousand Americans born between 1885 and 1980 reveals that well-being【C3】______increases with age—but overall happiness【C4】______when a person was born.
【C5】______studies that have【C6】______older adults with the middle-aged and young have sometimes found that older adults are not as happy. But these studies could not【C7】______whether their【C8】______was because of their age or because of their【C9】______life experience. The new study, published online January 24 in Psychological Science ,【C10】______out the answer by examining 30 years of data on thousands of Americans, including【C11】______measures of mood and well-being, reports of job and relationship success, and objective measures of health.
The researchers found, after controlling for variables【C12】______health, wealth, gender, ethnicity and education, that well-being increases over everyone’s lifetime.【C13】______people who have lived through extreme hardship, such as the Great Depression,【C14】______much less happy than those who have had more【C15】______lives. This finding helps to【C16】______why past studies have found conflicting results—experience【C17】______, and tough times can【C18】______an entire generation’s happiness for the rest of their lives. The【C19】______news is,【C20】______we’ve lived through, we can all look forward to feeling more content as we age.
【C5】
选项
A、Following
B、Preceding
C、Previous
D、Later
答案
C
解析
本题考查形容词词义辨析。空格所在句句意为:“……研究发现老年人不如后两者幸福”。下句转折(but)说明“但这些研究无法……”;第三句指出“新研究通过研究大量数据……”,由此推知空格所在句及下旬提到的研究与“新研究”相对,即为“之前的”研究。B,C均有“之前的”意思,但Preceding强调“紧接在前”,Previous泛指“发生在前的”,后者符合原文语境。Following意为“下面的,以下的”;Later意为“更迟,后来的”。
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考研英语一
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