2022年译林版高考英语总复习第二部分核心考点培优训练十六 选择性必修第一册Unit 4 Exploring poetry.docVIP

PAGE 1 - 十六　选择性必修第一册　 Unit 4　Exploring poetry (限时60分钟) Ⅰ.阅读理解 A (2022·茂名模拟) This past year, I’ve found myself returning again and again to lines of poetry by Emily Dickinson. Like many people, I’ve needed the curing effects of reading more than ever. As scientists and psychologists will tell you, books are good for the brain and their benefits are particularly vital now. Books expand our world, providing an escape and offering novelty, surprise and excitement. They broaden our view and help us connect with others. Books can also distract us and help reduce our mental chatter. When we hit the “flow state” of reading where we’re fully lost in a book, our brain’s mode network calms down. It’s a network of brain that is active and gets absorbed in thinking and worrying endlessly when we are not doing anything else.? There is so much noise in the world right now and the very act of reading is a kind of meditation. You disconnect from the chaos around you. You reconnect with yourself when you are reading. And there’s no more noise. In 2020, the NPD Group recorded the best year of book sales since 2004. Yet even as people are buying more books, many are reporting they’re having a harder time getting through them. It’s difficult for your brain to focus on a book when it’s constantly scanning for threats to keep you alive. Our fight-or-flight response has been consistently activated. Sometimes I picture my brain as a cartoon brain with little arms and legs, fighting with a book I am holding and screaming, “Can’t you see I’m busy!” Anxiety causes our brain to produce a flood of stress, which consumes our energy and makes it harder to concentrate. Then one day in December sitting on my couch, I remembered how much I like to read The House of Mirth every few years around the holidays. The memory inspired me to pick up the familiar book, opened it up and started reading. I just kept going. The comfort and distraction and brain-opening experience gave me peace. So retur