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What makes people happier: money or having happy friends and neighbors? Researchers in a new study find that friends of happy pe

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问题     What makes people happier: money or having happy friends and neighbors? Researchers in a new study find that friends of happy people have a greater chance of being happy themselves. And the smaller the 【B1】______ distance between friends, the larger the effect they have on each other’s happiness. For example, a person is 20% more likely to feel happy if a friend living within 1. 5 kilometers is also happy. Having a happy neighbor who lives next door increases an individual’s chance of being happy by 34%. The effects of friends’ happiness【B2】______up to a year.
    The researchers find that happiness really is contagious.【B3】______also spread among friends, but not as much as happiness. People【B4】______by as much as three degrees of separation still have an effect on a person’s happiness. Three degrees of separation means the friend of a friend of a friend. The study showed that having an【B5】______ $5 000 increases a person’s chances of becoming happier by about 2%. But the researchers find that the【B6】______of a friend of a friend of a friend can be greater than that.
    Another finding is that people who are married or work together do not have as much of an effect on happiness as friends do. The findings【B7】______in the British Medical Journal. The National Institute on Aging in the United States helps【B8】______the study. The study is described as the first to【B9】______ the indirect spread of happiness. In other words, your emotions can be affected by someone you do not【B10】______know.
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答案extra
解析 由空格前的an和空格后的$5 000可知，空格处需填入一个形容词。结合录音可知，答案为extra，意为“额外的”。
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