Middle Age: A Low Point for Most7 r9 O9 ]9 u; M6 O! v* k
People around the globe hit the height of their misery and depression in_____ 1 age, a new international study suggests.- r4 `; L0 d; }
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 _____2 gender, culture, geography, wealth, job history, education, and marriage or parental status.
; `2 h6 w$ q9 x% |1 }% q"The scientific fact seems to be that happiness and positive mental health follow a giant ’U’ _____3 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 falls and bottoms out_____ 4 your 40s. But the good news is that your _____5 health picks up again, and eventually gets back to the high levels of our youth."4 B3 }' ^5 ?$ c' E
The finding was_____ 6 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" _____ 7 between 1981 and 2004 in North America, Eastern and Western Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Central and South America; and a 2004-2007 survey _____ 8 nearly 1 million Britons.
2 p, R9 o3 [2 r# R7 X+ S @The bottom-line: For most people throughout the world, the highest probability for depression striking is around 44 years of _____9 .
; a/ u4 @! _- R& RIn the United States, however, some as-yet unexplained _____ 10 differences were observed, with happiness among men dipping the most in their early 50s, whereas women hit their nadir around the age of 40.# s" q- V( N3 Y2 t. H( _1 u
The researchers cautioned that cheerful people tend to live longer than unhappy _____ 11 -- a fact that might have skewed the overall finding. But they also suggested that evidence of a happiness_____ 12 might simply reflect a midlife choice to give up long-held but no longer tenable aspirations, followed by a senior’s sense of gratitude for having successfully endured _____13 others did not.
+ ~$ |+ w" d( D8 c: U"That said, some might find it helpful simply to understand the general _____14 of mental health as they go through their own life," said Oswald. "It might be useful for people to realize that if they are_____15 in their 40s, this is normal. It is not exceptional. And just knowing this might help.") v2 F5 J' R8 C1 Y
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9. A age B marriage C experience D work
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11. A men B people C women D families6 O- s9 X- @0 ` o
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15. A poor B low C old D weak
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