Do people get happier or more foul-tempered as they age? Stereotypes of irritable neighbors【C1】______, scientists have been tryi

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问题    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 educa tion, that well-being increases over everyone’ s lifetime.【C13】______people who have lived through extreme hard ship, 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.
【C18】

选项 A、influence
B、boost
C、delay
D、enrich

答案A

解析 本题考查动词辨析。上文指出经历过艰苦岁月的人不及那些生活更为舒适的人们幸福,说明艰苦的岁月降低了人们的幸福感,排除B项boost“促进;增加”和D项enrich“使丰富;使充实”。而把C项delay代入,“延后幸福感”不能与其时间状语“在余生中”构成合理搭配。只有把A项influence代入,表示“艰苦的岁月能够影响整整一代人余生的幸福”,符合题意,故A项为正确选项。
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