必修第一册 Unit 1 Teenage Life（word练习）-【勤径学升】2025年高考英语一轮总复习课时检测训练（人教版）

课时检测训练2　必修第一册　UNIT 1　TEENAGE LIFE 对应学生用书P298 Ⅰ.阅读理解 A (2023·河南郑州九师联盟考前押题卷)Data show that almost all children see a decline in their happiness when they make the step up to Key Stage Three, with self-reported happiness taking a significant hit. Information from more than 11,000 people showed the impact was universal and that children from all backgrounds, ethnicities and locations feel worse aged 14 than they do aged 11, with the change in school thought to be the driving reason. Scientists asked children to rank on a scale of one to seven how satisfied they were with their schoolwork, appearance, school, family, friends and life as a whole. One was “completely happy” and seven was “completely unhappy”. Statisticians crunched(压缩)the numbers down to a scale between -2 and 1, with the average happiness being a score of zero when a child was 11. However, by the time the child was 14, four in five teenagers had a score of below zero, indicating a widespread downturn in adolescent happiness. That decline is probably linked to the change to secondary school at age 11, according to the study's authors. Ioannis Katsantonis, a doctoral researcher at Cambridge's Faculty of Education who led the study, said, “Even though this was a large, diverse group of adolescents, we saw a consistent fall in happiness.” “One of the most striking aspects was the clear association with changes at school. It suggests we urgently need to do more to support students' happiness at secondary schools across Britain.” The study identified that a child's friendships and school life were key in their level of happiness, with the move to a bigger school and the potential problems with making new friends having a damaging impact on how they felt. However, the scientists report that children with higher self-esteem(自尊心)aged 11 lived through the storm of moving to secondary school better than those who had lower self-esteem. This indicates that structured efforts to strengthen adolescents' self-e