Middle Age: A Low Point for Most
People around the globe hit the height of their misery and depression in middle 【51】______, a new international study suggests.
The finding by British and American researchers was based on an analysis of well-being among approximately 2 million people in 80 nations. With few exceptions, the observation appears to apply across the board, regardless 【52】______ gender(性别), culture, geography, wealth, job history, education, and marriage or parental status.
"The scientific fact seems to be that happiness and positive mental health follow a giant 'U' 【53】______ through life", said study author Andrew J. Oswald, a professor of economics at Warwick University in Warwickshire, England. "For the average person, it's high when you're 20, and then it slowly 【54】______ and bottoms out in your 40s. But the good news is that your 【55】______ health picks up again, and eventually gets back to the high levels of our youth".
The finding was 【56】______ on the pooling of several different sources of happiness data, including; two multi-decade happiness/satisfaction surveys (first launched in the 1970s), involving about 500,000 American and Western European men and women; four rounds of the 80-nation "World Values Survey" 【57】______ between 1981 and 2004 in North America, Eastern and Western Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Central and South America; and a 2004—2007 survey 【58】______ nearly 1 million Britons.
The bottom-line; For most people throughout the world, the highest probability for 【59】______ striking is around 44 years of age.
In the United States, however, some as-yet unexplained 【60】______ differences were observed, with happiness among men dipping the most in their early 50s, whereas women hit their nadir(最低点) around the age of 40.
The researchers cautioned that cheerful people tend to live longer than unhappy 【61】______—a fact that might have skewed(使偏斜) the overall finding. But they also suggested that evidence of a happiness 【62】______ might simply reflect a midlife choice to give up long-held but no longer tenable(守得住的) aspirations(志向), followed by a senior's sense of gratitude for having successfully endured 【63】______ others did not.
"That said, some might find it helpful simply to understand the general 【64】______ of mental health as they go through their own life", said Oswald. "It might be useful for people to realize that if they are 【65】______ in their 40s this is normal. It is not exceptional. And just knowing this might help".
A. age
B. place
C. height
D. degree
听力原文: The Northwest braced for blizzards Friday night—icy roads created from storms this week paralyzed much of the greater Seattle-Washington area, where schools were closed and bus routes were suspended Friday (Q28) as roads were too icy to navigate. Two charter buses carrying 80 people that collided and skidded off a road were pulled to safety (Q28). The buses crashed through a metal railing and hung precariously over Interstate 5 for several hours before tow trucks pulled them back on the road. The snowfall closed the airport for several hours (Q28) , and cut into local business hours for retail shops during the busiest shopping season of the year.
Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the news?
A. The airport was shut down for Friday.
B. There was a road accident involving two buses.
C. Local shops were closed earlier than usual.
D. Bus service was stopped for Friday.
听力原文: Hundreds of emergency workers combed the site of a five-story apartment building (Q30) in southern Ukraine Thursday after a series of explosions reduced it to rubble, authorities said. The blasts Wednesday night in the Black Sea resort town of Yevpatoria left at least 17 people dead and 24 others missing, according to Igor Krol, a spokesman for the Ukraine's Emergency Situations Ministry, Twenty-one people have been rescued (Q29). " We are now investigating all possible reasons for the explosions," Krol said. Volodymiyr Shandra, Ukrainian Emergency Situations minister, told local media that oxygen canisters being stored in the basement of the building could have triggered the blasts. Television footage showed rescuers trying to free people buried underneath fallen debris, while others scrabbled through wires, construction rods and boulders.
How many people were rescued from the department building?
A. 17.
B. 24.
C. 21.
D. 41.
中世纪的欧洲,宗教婚姻是当时主要的、占统治地位的结婚方式。教会不仅握有婚姻家庭的立法权,而且操纵婚姻家庭的司法权。结婚必须严格遵守教会法上的有关规定。最能准确复述这段话的主要意思的是()。
A. 宗教婚姻流行于欧洲中世纪
B. 教会在婚姻中的作用
C. 宗教婚姻是中世纪的欧洲占统治地位的结婚方式
D. 在中世纪的欧洲结婚必须遵守教会法的规定