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 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.
【C7】

选项 A、derive
B、discern
C、discover
D、detect

答案B

解析 本题考查动词词义辨析。上文提到以前的研究发现老年人有时不如更年轻的人感觉幸福;本句转折指出:但是研究不能……他们的……究竟是因为他们的年龄还是因为他们的……生活经历。空格处填入动词接whether...or...(是……还是……)结构,即要在两个原因当中确定一个,而不单单是“发现、察觉”,排除C和D项;derive常用于~from,表示“起源”,不合文意;discern意为“辨明,分清”,可接whether…or...表示“在二者中辨别出一个”,为正确答案。
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