题文
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(命运).”
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.
小题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小题2:What can we know from the passage？A．Men should not worry about looking after their family any more in old ageB．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.小题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. 题型：未知难度：其他题型
答案
小题1:C
小题2:B
小题3:A
解析
文章讲解了在晚年女性比男性更加的幸福，并且文章作者举出了一些数据和事实进行了论证。
小题1:主旨题。本文属于总起的段落，第一段即揭示主旨，从women were happier than men and enjoy life more in old age.可知在晚年，女性比男性幸福，故选C
小题2:细节题。从文章As actors get older they bad-tempered for they have lost that sense of being in control of their destiny 可知男性的演员随着年龄的增大，脾气会变得越来越暴躁，故选B
小题3:推断题。从文章you have more chances of living longer 可知，此处讲了如果你结婚了并且受到了良好的教育那么你很可能会更快乐，活的更长，故之后应该讲老人如何在晚年变得更快乐应该所做的事情，故选A
点评：文章不长，学生应对每一个句话进行深入的理解。学生在解答此类文章时，可以根据文章中每段第一句话进行快速的阅读，然后迅速看题，在题目中找到关键字，再到文章中找到相对应的出处，仔细的对比，快速定位，是解答此类题目最有效的方法。
考点
据考高分专家说，试题“Researchers question.....”主要考查你对 [日常生活类阅读 ]考点的理解。日常生活类阅读
日常生活类阅读的概念：
日常生活这一话题主要涉及人们衣食住行等方面的活动。这一话题的选材主要针对人们日常的工作，生活以及学习情况。做这一类题时，最主要的是要把握好人物的活动内容，时间和地点。
日常生活类阅读题答题技巧：
【题型说明】
该类文章内容涉及到人们的言谈举止、生活习惯、饮食起居、服饰仪表、恋爱婚姻、消遣娱乐、节日起源、家庭生活等。文章篇幅短小，追根溯源，探索各项风俗的历史渊源，内容有趣。命题也以送分题为主，如事实细节题、语义转换题、词义猜测题和简单推理判断题等。虽然这类文章读起来感觉轻松，试题做起来比较顺手，但绝不能掉以轻心。因为稍不留神，就会丢分。
【备考提醒】
为了保证较高准确率，建议同学们做好以下几点：
1、保持正常的考试心态。笔者在教学中发现，越是容易的试题，同学们越是容易失分。为什么呢？因为在这种情况下，同学们极易产生麻痹思想，认为题目好做，就不引起高度重视，于是思维不发散、不周密。而命题人就是利用同学们的这一弱点，设计陷阱题。所以，无论试题难易与否，我们都要保持正常的考试心态。试题容易，不欣喜；试题难，不悲观。
2、根据前面讲到的方法，认认真真、细细心心做好事实细节题。
3、做好语义转换题。这类题是根据英语中一词多义和某些词语在文中能表达一定的修辞意义的原则而设计的。要求同学们解释某生词的含义，确定多义词或短语在文中的意思，确认文中的某个代词所指代的对象，或者对英语中特有的表达、格言、谚语进行解释。这种题要求同学们一定要根据上下文猜测词义或理解句子，切不可望文生义。
4、做好简单推理判断题。简单推理判断题要以表面文字为前提，以具体事实为依据进行推理，做出判断。这种推理方式比较直接，只要弄清事实，即可结合常识推断出合理的结论。
