Section A Reading in the Context
Read the following passage with ten missing words．Learn to guess the meanings of them from the context and then select one word for each blank from the list of choices given in a word bank following the passage．Each word can be used only once．
It might seem obvious that，for most people，happiness is positively correlated with friendships．But a paper published last month in the British Journal of Psychology found one____1__exception：Extremely intelligent people become less happy when they spend more time with their friends．
Researchers，led by psychology professor Norman Li from Singapore Management University，used____2__psychology to explain why some people are happier than others．They theorized that situations that led to positive consequences for our ancestors would also____3__happiness today．
People who live in rural areas tend to be happier than those in urban areas，they argue，because our ancestors lived in groups of 150 people and____4__to maintain cooperation and____5__in larger groups．Meanwhile，friendships could be key to happiness because our ancestors relied on such relationships to overcome hunting challenges and share child rearing duties．
But，the researchers posit（假想），these rules would not hold for____6___intelligent people，who would have less difficulty living in high population areas and not associating with friends．In fact，they wrote，“intelligent individuals even appeared to become more satisfied with life when their____7__of socialization with friends was lower．”
Of course，we’re no longer living in the same circumstances as our ancestors，thanks to the wonders of technological advancement．And the researchers argue that more intelligent people simply have less trouble adapting to our new____8__．
But the researchers’theory is not the only explanation for such findings．Carol Graham，a Brookings Institution researcher who studies the economics of happiness，told the Washington Post that she had a slightly different interpretation．More intelligent people“are less likely to spend so much time____9__because they are focused on some other longer-term___10__，”she said．In other words，work is so important to them that they don’t have time to waste with friendships．
