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高三一轮复习40分钟单元检测卷/英语
Here are two interesting questions.Are you very happy with your life now?Are people happier as
they get older?A study found that people generally become happier and experience less worry after
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age 50.In fact,it found that by the age of 85,people are happier with their life than they were
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The finding came from a Gallup survey of more than 340,000 adults between the age of 18 and
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85 in the United States.
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Arthur Stone in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Stony Brook University in
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New York led the study.His team found that levels of stress were highest among adults between the
Shakespeare once wrote that all the world is a stage,but these days it's more like a movie set.
ages of 22 and 25.Stress levels dropped sharply after people reached their fifties.
Get to know some films to find fantastic film locations (you should check out on your travels.
Happiness was highest among the youngest adults and those in their early seventies.But the peo-
The Sound of Music
ple least likely to report feeling negative emotions were those in their seventies and eighties.The sur-
Austria's hills are certainly alive with the sound of music and tourists.Mozart may have been
vey also found that men and women had similar emotional patterns as they grew older.However,
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born in Salzburg,but The Sound of Music really put it on the map and now about 70 percent of people
women at all ages reported more sadness,stress and worry than men did.
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visit it because of the movie.Cross Residenzplatz Square and visit the Palace of Leopoldskron where
The researchers also considered possible influences like having young children,being unem-
the children in the film fell into the lake.
ployed or being single.But they found that influences like these did not affect the levels of happiness
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and well-being related to age.
Although the Palace of Troy was filmed on