第1题
A.alike
B.alongside
C.aside
D.besides
第2题
A.conflicting
B.worrying
C.revealing
D.appealing
第3题
A.accordingly
B.indeed
C.hence
D.nevertheless
第4题
A.resides with
B.rests with
Do people get happier or more foul-tempered as they age? Stereotypes of irritable neighbors__1__, scientists have been trying to answer this question for decades, and the results have been__2__Now a study of several thousand Americans born between 1885 and 1980 reveals that well-being__3__increases with age—but overall happiness__4__when a person was born.
C.depends on
D.reckons on
第5题
A.Following
B.Preceding
C.Previous
ter
第6题
A.matched
B.related
pared
D.associated
第7题
A.derive
B.discern
C.discover
D.detect
第8题
C.boost
D.delay
第19题
A.good
B.surprising
C.bad
test
第20题
A.while
B.though
C.no matter what
D.no matter how
考研英语二模拟试题及答案解析（7）
(1~20/共20题)SectionⅠUse of English
Directions:
Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1.
__5__studies that have__6__older adults with the middle-aged and young have sometimes found that older adults are not as happy. But these studies could not__7__whether their__8__was because of their age or because of their__9__life experience. The new study, published online January 24 in Psychological Science ,__10__out the answer by examining 30 years of data on thousands of Americans, including__11__measures of mood and well-being, reports of job and relationship success, and objective measures of heychological
第12题
A.instead of
B.along with
C.such as
D.apart from
第13题
A.Thus
B.Even
C.Then
D.But
第14题
A.start up
B.start off
C.start over
D.start on
第15题
borious
fortable
C.insecure
D.meaningful
第16题
A.explain
B.estimate
C.establish
D.exhibit
第17题
A.expands
B.emerges
C.matters
D.recurs
第18题
A.enrich
B.influence
The researchers found, after controlling for variables__12__health, wealth, gender, ethnicity and education, that well-being increases over everyone´s lifetime.__13__people who have lived through extreme hardship, such as the Great Depression,__14__much less happy than those who have had more__15__lives. This finding helps to__16__why past studies have found conflicting results—experience__17__, and tough times can__18__an entire generation´s happiness for the rest of their lives. The__19__news is,__20__we´ve lived through, we can all look forward to feeling more content as we age.
A.discontent
B.unwillingness
C.incompetence
D.precariousness
第9题
A.limited
B.abundant
mon
D.different
第10题
A.ruled
B.teased
C.left
D.marked
第11题
A.biological
B.medical