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  3. 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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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.
【C4】
选项 A、resides with
B、rests with
C、depends on
D、reckons on
答案C
解析 本题考查动词短语辨析。reside with强调“权力、权利等属于某人、某机构”，不合文意；rest with意为“由(某人)负责，强调的是人，只接sb．”；reckon on意为“指望，希望(某事发生)”，不合文意。depend on可用来表明原因，即“某事受……影响或取决于……”，代入文中，说明总体幸福取决于一个人的出生时间，符合文意。
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