Researchers questioned nearly 9,800 people over the age of 50 about their lives and found women were happier than men and enjoy life more in old age.
Dr Elizabeth Breeze, one of the researchers, said that women could become happier as they get older as they no longer have to worry about looking after their families.
She said:“There is a difference between the way men and women view their quality of life and they are influenced by slightly different things. Women are affected negatively by caring for someone else or if they are not in employment but if they see their children and family more they are positively affected.”
“A strange thing happens to male actors, especially movie stars, in my experience,” said Helen Mirren, a 62-year-old Hollywood actress.“A young male actor feels that all the girls want him-he’s a star. As actors get older they bad-tempered for they have lost that sense of being in control of their destiny(命運).”
Wealth also helps you live longer with the poorest people more than twice as likely to die earlier than the richest, researchers at University College London discovered. In some age groups. the difference was even greater. The poorest women between 60 and 74 are six times more likely to have died than the richest women of the same age.
According to the study, you have more chances of living longer if you are married, educated to certain degree or a professional. single people are twice as likely to die early as those  who are married or living with a partner.
小題1:What may be the best title of the passage ?
A．Why Women Are Happier Than Men in Old Age .
B．How to Live Longer.
C．Women Happier Than Men in Old Age.
D．The Difference between Women and Men in Old Age
小題2:What can we know from the passage？
A．Men should not worry about looking after their family any more in old age
B．Male actors, especially movie stars are easy to get bad—tempered when they get older and older.
C．The poorest women about the age of 50 can’t live longer than the richest women at the same age.
D．Education has nothing to do with happy life in people’s old age.
小題3:What may be talked about if there is another paragraph as the ending ?
A．Things that the old should do to be happier.
B．The disadvantage of being actors.
C．We should earn money as much as we can.
D．How to become a professional.

小題1:C
小題2:B
小題3:A      

試題分析：文章講解了在晚年女性比男性更加的幸福，并且文章作者舉出了一些數(shù)據(jù)和事實進行了論證。
小題1:主旨題。本文屬于總起的段落，第一段即揭示主旨，從women were happier than men and enjoy life more in old age.可知在晚年，女性比男性幸福，故選C
小題2:細節(jié)題。從文章As actors get older they bad-tempered for they have lost that sense of being in control of their destiny 可知男性的演員隨著年齡的增大，脾氣會變得越來越暴躁，故選B
小題3:推斷題。從文章you have more chances of living longer 可知，此處講了如果你結(jié)婚了并且受到了良好的教育那么你很可能會更快樂，活的更長，故之后應(yīng)該講老人如何在晚年變得更快樂應(yīng)該所做的事情，故選A
點評：文章不長，學(xué)生應(yīng)對每一個句話進行深入的理解。學(xué)生在解答此類文章時，可以根據(jù)文章中每段第一句話進行快速的閱讀，然后迅速看題，在題目中找到關(guān)鍵字，再到文章中找到相對應(yīng)的出處，仔細的對比，快速定位，是解答此類題目最有效的方法。
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