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试题习题、尽在百度 专题限时集训二十三 任务型阅读(Ⅱ) (对应学生用书第161 页) A (2017·南京、盐城高三二模) “HELL is a city much like London，”said Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1819.Modern academics agree.Last year Dutch researchers showed that city dwellers(居民)have 21% higher risk of suffering from anxiety disorders than do their calmer rural countrymen ，and a 39% higher risk of suffering from mood disorders.But exactly how the inner workings of the urban and rural minds cause this difference has remained unclear —until now.A study just published in Nature by Andreas Meyer Lindenberg of the University of Heidelberg and his colleagues has used a scanning technique called functional magnetic resonance imaging( 功能性磁共 振成像，简称fMRI)to examine the brains of city dwellers and countrymen when they are under stress. In Dr Meyer Lindenbergs first experiment ，participants lying with their heads in a scanner took maths tests that they were bound to fail(the researchers had designed success rates to be just 25% －40% ) ．To make the experience still more embarrassing，the team provided negative feedback through headphones ，all the while checking participants for indications of stress，such as high blood pressure. The city peoples general mental health did not differ from that of the rural countrymen.However，their brains dealt with the stress caused by the experimenters in different ways.These differences were noticeable in two regions：the amygdalas(杏仁 核)and the perigenual anterior cingulate cortex(前扣带皮层，简称PACC)． People living in the countryside had the lowest levels of activity in their amygdalas.Those living in towns had higher levels.City dwellers had the highest.In the case of the PACC ，however ，what mattered was not where someone was living now ，but where he or she was brought up.T