Old age may not sound exciting. But recent findings offer good news for older people and for people worried about getting older. Researchers found that people become happier and experience less worry after they reach the age of fifty. In fact, they say by the age of eighty-five, people are happier with their life than they were when they were eighteen years old.
The researchers asked questions about emotions like happiness, sadness and worry. They also asked about mental or emotional stress. They also found that levels of stress were highest among adults between the ages of twenty-two and twenty-five.The findings showed that stress levels dropped sharply after people reached their fifties.
The study also showed that men and women have similar emotional patterns as they grow older. However, women at all ages reported more sadness, stress and worry than men.
Researchers say they do not know why happiness increases as people get older. One theory is that, as people grow older, they grow more thankful for what they have and have better control of their emotions. They also spend less time thinking about bad experiences.
When will people become happier and experience less worry?
A.18 years old B.80 years old C.50 years old D.25 years old
A.体力 B.情感 C.智力 D.目标
A.a fifty-year-old man B.a fifty-year-old woman C.a twenty-five-year-old woman D.a twenty-five-year-old man
A.They are more thankful for what they have B.They have better control of their emotions C.They spend less time thinking about their bad experiences D.All of the above.
【河北省2015年中考英语试题】完形填空(共10小题,每小题1分,计10分)
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从各小题所给的四个选项中选出最佳选项。
A teacher was giving a talk to his students on stress(压力) management. He raised a glass of water and asked them, "How do you think this glass of water is?"
The students began to think and . Their answers are different, from 20g to 500g.
"It does not matter on the real . It depends on how long you hold it. If I hold it for a it is OK. If I hold it for an hour, I will have an ache in my right arm. If I hold it for a day, you will have to call a . It is the exact same weight, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes. What we have to do is to put the glass down, for a while before holding it up again."
"If we carry our burdens ,sooner or later, we will not be able to carry on. The burden will become increasingly heavier. We have to the burden every now and then, so that we can be refreshed and are able to carry on."
So you return home from work tonight, put the burden of work down. Don't carry it back home. You can pick it up tomorrow.
Whatever burdens you have, let them down for a moment if you can. And learn to ourselves.
Life is short but amazing. Enjoy it!
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【黑龙江省龙东地区2015年中考英语试题】Close test (本题共15分,每小题1分)
Choose the best answer to complete the passage.
Every great achievement has been the result of years of dreaming. Even in early times, people could realize the of dreams. If a person has a dream and works hard, he or she will find a way bring it into success.
Children do not have knowledge. However, they are natural dreamers. We should not them. With their rich imagination, they will with fantastic dreams. History is of examples. Many great men were dreamers when they were children. One such dreamer was Thomas Edison. He used to ostracized(排斥) when he was in primary school, but his achievements were greater than in his time.
Teenagers and young people should also be to dream. They had big dreams and their dreams their lives and even the world. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are the good examples. They developed technology and brought great progress to humans besides making money for .
Older people should believe that it is never late to dream. Colonel Saunders KFC at the age of 67. Everyone has a chance to make dreams .A.importantB. importanceC. most important
A.to B. ofC. for
A.manyB. a lotC. much
A.make fun B. laugh atC. look down
A.come upB. catch upC. get on
A.full B. filled C. fill
A.beingB. beC. been
A.else everyone's B. everyone else's C. everyone else
A.encouraged B. encouragingC. encourage
A.changeB. changedC. to change
A.hadB. have to C. have
A.themB. themselvesC. theirs
A.so B. very C. too
A.set up B. set outC. put up
A.come true B. achieveC. realize
【山东省菏泽市2015年中考英语试题】完形填空(共10小题;每小题1分,满分10分)
阅读下面短文,从短文后各小题所给的A、B、C三个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
The New Baby
The picture shows a family visiting their new baby in hospital. I think it’s probably the evening, because the light is __________, so the father must have brought his children __________work.
There are two children beside the baby, a boy and a girl. The __________ is a little older than his sister. He’s about six or seven. He __________ proud. The girl looks very ____________ to have a new sister.
The father has his arm around __________ children. He looks proud as well. The mother is sitting ____________. She looks happy ____________a little tired.
The baby is in the middle. I guess it’s a girl, __________she is wearing pink clothes. The baby is _________ despite (尽管,不管) all the noise and excitement.A.off B. onC. out
A. before B. after C. at
A. girl B. baby C. boy
A. looks B. is lookedC. is looking
A. excitedB. sad C. angry
A. herB. yourC. his
A. on the left B. in the middle C. in the front
A. andB. or C. but
A. becauseB. so C. if
A. running B. sleepingC. eating
【贵州省铜仁市2015年中考英语试题】完形填空 (10分)
阅读下面短文,然后根据短文内容从短文后各题所给的选项中选择能填入相应空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡的相应位置将其涂黑。
In China, spring in March. The weather gets warm. Everything comes back to ________ .Trees turn green and flowers come . It is a wonderful season.
Summer begins in June. It is very hot. It often rains and ________ it rains heavily.
Fall comes summer. It is the harvest season and the farmers are busy ________ . It’s cool and ________ fall from the trees. The cold weather is coming.
Winter lasts ________ December to February. It’s a very cold season.We’d better ________ warm clothes. The wind blows ________ and sometimes there is ice and snow.A.return B. returnsC. returned
A.lifeB. livesC. live
A. upB. out C.in
A. sometime B. some times C. sometimes
A.afterB. before C. on
A. harvestB. harvests C. harvesting
A. leafsB. leavesC. leaf
A.for B. to C. from
A.wearB. to wearC. wearing
A.strongB. strongerC. strongly
【湖北省黄冈市2015年中考英语试题】完形填空(共 15 小题;每小题 1 分,满分 15 分)
阅读下面的短文,从短文后所给的四个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
When I was a junior high school student in 1980, God gave me a gift, it was happiness.
One weekend, I went to visit my grandparents in the countryside. On my way home a car ran over me and cut off my ________ because of its high speed.
Several days later when I woke up at the hospital, I realized I had to spend the rest of my life ________ arms. How sad I felt at that time! Even I was full of fears. slowly I knew I had to face the fact and got over it. I couldn’t get my arms back even though I ________every day.
However, it’s easier ________ than done. It took me nearly half a year to get out of the sadness ________ . I got so much from my past story. From then on, I could treat my life with a ________ mind. But in our daily life, I often see my classmates ________ about little things: They get a bad grade on a test; their bus comes ________ ; they don’t have a mobile phone but ________have, and so on. But I only ________ life. I was lucky to realize from an accident : It is a waste of our life to focus on what you have ________.We should always think of what we have. So why are so many people unhappy? Someone may say, “My whole life would improve ________ I have a new car.” But when you get the car and what________ ? For a whole week you are walking on air. Then you go right back to being unhappy.
Happiness depends on what we have! It’s in our heart. It’s a state of mind, even though you own the whole world, you may still feel ________ .Happiness comes from mastering the art of appreciating(感激) and taking pleasure in what you really have.
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