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Listening
What Is the Relationship Between Age and Happiness?
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This is the VOA Special English Health Report.    Are people less happy or more happy the older they get? If you answered more happy, then you were [1]……………………………….., based on a study published two years ago. It found that people generally become happier and experience less worry after age fifty. In fact, it found that by the age of eighty-five, people are happier with their [2]…………………………….. than they were at eighteen.   The findings came from a Gallup survey of more than three hundred forty thousand adults in the United States in two thousand eight. At that [3]…………………………….., the people were between the ages of eighteen and eighty-five.   Arthur Stone in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Stony Brook University in New York led the study. His team found that levels of [4]…………………………….. were highest among adults between the ages of twenty-two and twenty-five. Stress levels dropped sharply after people reached their fifties.   Happiness was highest [5]…………………………….. the youngest adults and those in their early seventies. But the people least likely to report feeling negative emotions were those in their seventies and eighties.   The survey also found that men and women have [6]…………………………….. emotional patterns as they grow older. However, women at all ages reported more sadness, stress and worry than men did.   The researchers also considered possible influences like having young children, being unemployed or being [7]……………………………... But they found that influences like these did not affect the levels of happiness and well-being related to age.   So why would happiness increase with age? One theory is that, as people get older, they become more thankful for what they have and have better [8]…………………………….. of their emotions. They also spend less time thinking about bad experiences.   The findings appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.   Happiness is not the [9]…………………………….. thing that apparently improves with age. In a study published this year, people in their eighties reported the fewest problems with the quality of their sleep.   Researchers surveyed more than one hundred fifty thousand American adults. The study, led by Michael Grandner at the University of Pennsylvania, appeared in the journal Sleep.   The original goal was to confirm the popular belief that aging is connected with increased sleep [10]……………………………... The survey did find an increase during middle age, especially in women. But except for that, people reported that they felt their sleep quality improved as they got older.   And that`s the VOA Special English Health Report. To read and listen to more stories for people learning English, go to voaspecialenglish.com. I`m Jim Tedder.
Riddles
11. Where does June come before May?
12. Why is the letter A like twelve o`clock?
13. Which 2 letters of alphabet have eyes?
14. What do you call your father-in-law`s only child`s mother-in-law?
15. What 11-letter English word does everyone pronounce incorrectly?
16. If you drop a yellow hat into the red sea, what does it become?
17. What has teeth but can`t bite?
18. What is black when it is clean and white when it is dirty?
19. What has a neck, but no head?
20. What has three hands but only one face?
Speaking
Are you a happy person?
What is happiness for you?
What do you think is the color for happiness?
Do you think that happiness lies within you? Or does it depend upon other people and external things?
Can money buy happiness?
What makes you feel happy?
Are single people happy?
Would you be happier with a soul mate or single?
When was the happiest time of your childhood?
Can you be happy if you are rich?
Can you be happy is you are poor?
How can you become happy again when you are sad?
Is happiness a goal?
How often do you feel really happy?
Are the people in your country generally very happy?
What makes you unhappy?
What`s the most miserable you`ve been?
How happy are you compared with your friends?
Do you wake up happy every morning?
Do you agree that older people are less happy?
What is there to be happy about in the world today?
Does your happiness change during different times of the day, week, month or year?
What is or was the happiest time of your life?
Do you think some nations are happier than others?
What is missing in your life that would make you very happy?
Why are teenagers some of the happiest people in the world?
Do you feel that you have to work