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      Seventyfouryearolds are 1.             most contented people in the world,according to a new research.

2．________ (few) responsibilities,financial worries and more free time lead to contentment previously

unknown in earlier life.According to the research,happiness 3.________ (decline) from the teenage years

to 40.It levels off until 46 and then starts to increase until peaking at 74.

      Scientists from Germany and America regularly questioned 21,000 men and women 4.________

happy they were with their lives,providing a scale from one to seven: seven indicated complete

contentment.Teenagers in their late teens marked themselves at around 5.5 which fell 5.________ around 5 by age 40.At 74,happiness averaged at 5.9.

      The report,6.________ (publish) in the journal Social Indicators Research,said this could be due to older people being more appreciative.

      It concluded,"Compared to younger individuals,older people tend to place a greater emphasis

7.________emotional aspects of social interactions and are likely to remember the emotional content of

their experiences."

      Bringing up a family,buying a house and 8.________ (create) a career add to the stresses experienced by those in 9.________ twenties and thirties.The change in happiness is apparently most obvious among

British people.The men and women 10.________ live in Germany have relatively stable levels of

satisfaction throughout their lives.