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We’ve tried shopping, making money and spending it, but we’re still miserable. What’s missing from our lives?

Money (41)______ makes most of us happy. Poor people, (42)______, see their life satisfaction rise with income but for most of the population in a country as rich as ours, any jump-start to well-being from a pay rise quickly wears off. “I was window shopping in the south of France recently and I saw a woolly hat decorated with diamond, and I quite fancied it.” When we get to that stage we should realize that more money isn’t getting us more in terms of (43)______.

But what about health? Surely the virtual (44)______ of most fatal disease, rising life expectancy and falling death rates should be cheering us up? Not a bit of it. All that happens is that our expectations rise just as or even more quickly. (45)______, our health is better on almost every count, but this doesn’t translate into our feeling any healthier. We are more aware of our health, so we get more (46)______ it. Medicine has become a victim of its own success: having massively reduced the chances of death in childbirth, for example, people are now shocked if a life is lost--and reach for a lawyer. Death was inevitable --- now it’s (47)______.

Like the answer to many great problems, however, the answer to the question of happiness may be quite plain: once countries and households are free of material need, the biggest (48)_____ to life satisfaction seems to be a healthy set of personal relationship. The relative happiness of late teenagers and those passing middle age may relate to their spending more time on friendships. The thirty somethings, (49)______on the two fronts of work and children, are the most frustrated. Those between full-time education and (50)______ may be spending more time on the activities they think will make them happy --- earning and spending --- than on those that (51)______ will: spending time with friends and family.

The friend-shaped gap (52)______the American paradox --- why the residents of the richest nation in the world are so unhappy --- according to Professor Robert E. Lane at Yale University. “There is a kind of (53)______ of warm interpersonal relations, of easy-to-reach neighbors, of inclusive memberships , and of solid family life.” he says.

The (54)______ of happiness? Not money. So leave the lawn, forget your investment and call in sick tomorrow. Do yourself a favor. Phone a(n) (55)______.

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41-45: BDACA  46-50: BCDAD  51-55: CABCB

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