高中英语语法填空:短文题型基础练习 Test 21

Are people less happy or more happy the older they get? If you 　61　 (answer) more happy, then you were right, based on a study in 2008. It found that people generally become happier and experience less worry after age fifty. In fact, it is found that by the age of eighty-five, people are happier with their life than they were at eighteen.

The findings came from a Gallup survey of more than three hundred forty thousand adults in the United States in 2008. At that time, the people were 　62　 the ages of eighteen and eighty-five.

Arthur Stone led the study. His team found that levels of stress were 　63　 (high) among adults between the ages of twenty-two and twenty-five. Stress levels dropped sharply after people reached their fifties.

Happiness was highest among the youngest adults and 　64　 in their early seventies. But 　65　 people least likely to report feeling negative emotions were those in their seventies and eighties.

The survey also found that men and women have similar emotional patterns 　66　 they grow older. 　67　 , women at all ages reported more sadness, stress and worry than men did.

The researchers also considered possible influences like having young children, being unemployed or being single. But they found that influences like these did not affect the levels of happiness and well-being 　68　 (relate) to age.

So why would happiness increase with age? One theory is that, as people get older, they become more thankful for 　69　 they have and have better control of their emotions. They also spend less time 　70　 (think) about bad experiences.