What effect does your personality have on your longevity? Do some kinds of temperaments lead to longer lives? A new study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society looked at this question by examining the personality traits of 246 children of people who had lived to be at least 100.The study shows that those who live the longest are more outgoing, more active and less neurotic than other people. Long-living women are also more likely to be empathetic and cooperative than women with a normal life span. These findings comport with what you would expect from evolutionary theory those who are extroverted enough to make friends and help others are those who are going to be able to gather enough resources to make it through tough times.

Interestingly, however, other traits that you might consider advantageous had no impact in this study on whether participants were likely to live longer. Those who were more self-disciplined, for instance, were no more likely to live to be very old (which might explain the long life of the smoking French lady). Also, being open to new ideas had no relationship to long life, which might explain all those cantankerous old people who are fixed in their ways.

Whether you can successfully change your personality as an adult is the subject of a longstanding psychological debate. However, the new paper suggests that if you want long life, you should strive to be as outgoing as possible.

1. This text mainly discusses about
A. How personality related to longevity
B. Characteristics of longevity
C. A study on the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
D. Empathy and cooperativeness among women
E. The newspaper suggestion if we want long life

2. The passage says that long-living women….
A Have fewer activities than other people
B Are likely to be extroverted
C Have always wanted to live longer
D Are more disciplined
E Succeeded in changing their personality

3. In line 10,the word “outgoing” could be replaced with
A Leaving
B Retired
C Amiable
D Anxious
E Pious

63. What would you expect from evolutionary theory?
A. Long-living woman are more likely to be empathetic.
B. Those who are more outgoing live the longest.
C. It supports the study of longevity.
D. Dynamic people survive during difficult periods.
E. Being more outgoing, more active, and less neurotic are the characteristics needed to live longer.

10. The word cantankerous in last sentence (paragraph 3) could have the same meaning with
(A) Ridiculous
(B) Friendly
(C) Bad Tempered
(D) Concerned

The word “those” in line 24 refer to ….
A Resources
B Times
C Women
D Traits
E Participants

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