Do people get happier or more foul-tempered as they age? Stereotypes of irritable neighbors【B1】______, 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【B1】______, scientists have been trying to answer this question for decades, and the results have been 【B2】______. Now a study of several thousand Americans born between 1885 and 1980 reveals that well-being 【B3】______ increases with age but overall happiness【B4】______when a person was born.
    【B5】______studies that have【B6】______older adults with the middle-aged and young have sometimes found that older adults are not as happy. But these studies could not【B7】______whether their 【B8】______ was because of their age or be cause of their 【B9】______ life experience. The new study, published online January 24 in Psychological Science,【B10】______out the answer by examining 30 years of data on thousands of Americans, including【B11】______measures of mood and well-being, reports of job and relationship success, and objective measures of health.
    The researchers found, after controlling for variables【B12】______health, wealth, gender, ethnicity and education, that well-being increases over everyone’s lifetime.【B13】______people who have lived through extreme hardship, such as the Great Depression,【B14】______much less happy than those who have had more【B15】______lives. This finding helps to【B16】______why past studies have found conflicting results—experi-ence【B17】______, and tough times can【B18】______an entire generation’s happiness for the rest of their lives. The【B19】______news is,【B20】______we’ve lived through, we can all look forward to feeling more content as we age.
【B17】

选项 A、emerges
B、recurs
C、expands
D、matters

答案D

解析 考查动词辨析。上文指出经历过极度困难的人们不及生活更为舒适的人们感觉幸福,由此推知人们的经历对幸福感有影响,选项中可表达此含义的只有D.matters“有关系,要紧”。emerge“浮现,(事实)显露”,recur“重现,再发生”,expand“扩大,扩张”,均与文意不符。
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