【正文】 words is of great help in any profession and knowing that you can speak to higherranking people with selfconfidence can be a great encouragement to your selfesteem（ 自尊 ） . It could even aid in your career as those who are wellread, wellspoken, and knowledgeable on a variety of topics tend to get promotions more quickly (and more often) than those with smaller vocabularies and lack of awareness of literature, scientific breakthroughs, and global events. Reading books is also vital for learning new languages, as nonnative speakers gain exposure to words used in context, which will improve their own speaking and writing fluency. When you read a book, you have to remember a lot of characters, their backgrounds, ambitions, history as well as the various plots that weave their way through every story. That’s a fair bit to remember, but brains are wonderful things and can remember these things with relative ease. Amazingly enough, whenever you remember something new, new synapses are formed and existing ones are strengthened. How cool that is! No matter how much stress you have at work, in your personal relationships, or countless other issues faced in daily life, it all just slips away when you lose yourself in a great story. A wellwritten novel can transport you to other realms（ 領(lǐng)域 ） while an interesting article will distract you and keep you in the present moment , letting tensions drain away and allowing you to relax. You Should Read Every Day Knowledge accumulation ◆ The more you read, the more adequately it (71) ▲ you for various troubles in life. ◆ Knowledge is what will stay with you (72) ▲ . 第六部分：書面表達(dá) (滿分 25 分 ) 請認(rèn)真閱讀下面短文，并 按照要求 用英語 寫一篇 150 詞左右的 文章。 6. When did the woman start running? A. In primary school. B. In high school. C. At university. 7. Where is the woman now? A. In Boston. B. In London. C. In Berlin. 聽第 7 段材料，回答第 9 題 。聽完每段對話后，你都有 10 秒鐘 的 時(shí)間來回答有關(guān)小題和閱讀下一小題。 University in Sweden, who helped lead the research. Johsson said, “This adventurous behavior required more energy. And they ate more plankton（ 浮游生物 ） , or tiny algaeeating animals, to guarantee enough energy for their activities. This could reduce the population of plankton.” The result could be more algae（ 水藻 ） . On the other hand, the new behavior could lead to the opposite effect. If perch make themselves closer to their natural enemies, they are likely to be eaten by them. None of the scientists is suggesting that people should give up these drugs. They just want to reduce the effects of the medicines on the environment. They remend wastewater treatment plants should be redesigned to get rid of these medicines. But Kidd said that would be too expensive for some munities. Bryan Brooks, director of the Environmental Health Science Program at Baylor University, said drugs could also be designed to break down more quickly in the environment. And the government could continue to run recycling programs where people drop off their unused drugs at government locations. Brooks said he’s particularly concerned about drug effects on aquatic（ 水生的 ） environments, like the Trinity River south of Dallas and the South Platte River near Denver, where the majority of the flow es from treated wastewater. In the developing world, he said, the problem may be even worse, because of careless wastewater treatment and industrial regulations. 54. Which of the following best describes oxazepam’s effect on fish? A. It causes fish to be more daring. B. It makes fish much stronger. C. It has little influence on fish. D. It helps treat a fish disease. 55. What will happen if perch bee adventurous? A. They will eat more algae. B. There will be less plankton. C. They will need more oxazepam. D. Their natural enemies will be stronger. 56. What would be the best title for the passage? A. More wastewater treatment plants are needed B. Fish in wastewater bee more adventurous C. Drugs for treating mental diseases end up in wildlife D. Anxiety drugs found in rivers change the behavior of fish C Culture can affect not just language and customs, but also how people experience the world on surprisingly basic levels. Researchers, with the help of brain scans, have uncovered shocking differences in perception（感知） between Westerners and Asians, what they see when they look at a city street, for example, or even how they perceive a simple line in a square, according to findings published in a leading science journal. In western countries, culture makes people think of themselves as highly independent individuals. When looking at scenes, Westerners tend to focus more on central objects than on their surroundings. East Asian cultures, however, emphasize interdependence. When Easterners look at a scene, they tend to focus on surroundings as well as the object. Using an experiment involving two tasks, Dr Hedden asked subjects to look at a line simply to estimate its length, a task that is played to American strengths. In another, they estimated the line’s length relative to the size of a square, an easier task for the Asians. The level of brain activity, by tracking blood flow, was then measured by Brain Scanners. The experiment found that although there was no difference in performance, and the tasks were very easy, the levels of activity in the subjects’ brains were different. For the Americans, areas linked to attention lit up more, when they worked on the task they tended to find more difficult — estimating the line’s size relative to the square. For the Asians, the attention areas lit up more during the harder task also — estimating the line’s length without paring it to the square. The findings are a reflection of more than ten years of previous experimental research into EastWest differences. In one stu