You Should Read Every Day, Why?

I ask you a question. When was the last time you read a book, or a magazine article? Do your everyday reading habits centre around updates on the Internet? In case you are one of innumerable individuals who don’t make a habit of reading consistently you may be passing up a great opportunity: Reading has a noteworthy number of advantages and only a couple of advantages of reading are recorded below.

Everything you read fills your head with new bits of information and you never know when it might be useful to you. The more knowledge you have, the better prepared you are to overcome any challenge you’ll ever face. Additionally, here’s a bit of food for thought: Should you ever find yourself in terrible circumstances, remember that although you might lose everything else—your job, your possessions, your money, even your health—knowledge can never be taken from you.

At the same time, the more you read, the more words you gain exposure to, and they’ll surely make their way into your everyday vocabulary. Being able to express your ideas clearly in words is of great help in any profession and knowing that you can speak to higher-ranking people with self-confidence can be a great encouragement to your self-esteem. It could even aid in your career as those who are well-read, well-spoken, 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 non-native 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 easily. 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 well-written novel can transport you to other fields while an interesting article will distract you and keep you in the present moment, letting tensions drain away and allowing you to relax.

【答案】

【1】prepares/equips

【2】forever/permanently

【3】expansion / enlargement

【4】advantage/edge

【5】fluently

【6】Memory

【7】contents

【8】easy/good/helpful

【9】better

【10】relaxed

【解析】

这是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了读书可以使人们积累知识、扩大词汇量、提高记忆力、减轻压力。

【1】

考查筛选信息，分析信息，总结归纳信息的能力。根据第二段中的“The more knowledge you have, the better- equipped you are to overcome any challenge you’ll ever face.”可知，你的知识储备越多，你越能更好地克服人生的挑战。主语it后缺少谓语动词，用第三人称单数，表示“做好准备，武装你”。故填prepares/equips。

【2】

考查筛选信息，分析信息，总结归纳信息的能力。根据第二段中的“knowledge can never be taken from you.”可知，你的知识会永远跟随你。此处应用副词修饰整个句子，故填forever/permanently。

【3】

考查筛选信息，分析信息，总结归纳信息的能力。根据第三段中的“At the same time, the more you read, the more words you gain exposure to, and they’ll surely make their way into your everyday vocabulary.”可知，同时，你读得越多，你接触到的单词就越多，它们肯定会进入你的日常词汇表。由此可知，第三段主要讲要扩大词汇量，此处是名词短语，所以vocabulary后面应用名词形式。故填expansion / enlargement。

【4】

考查筛选信息，分析信息，总结归纳信息的能力。根据第三段中的“It could even aid in your career as those who are well-read, well-spoken, 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 advances, and global events”可知，它甚至可以帮助你的职业生涯，因为那些阅读能力强、口才好、对各种主题有知识的人比那些词汇量较小、对文学、科学进步和全球性事件缺乏认识的人更容易获得晋升(而且更频繁)。即：阅读可以为你的晋升带来优势。故该空填advantage/edge。

【5】

考查筛选信息，分析信息，总结归纳信息的能力。根据第三段中的“which will improve their own speaking and writing fluency”可知，这可以使得他们说得流利，写得流利。该空对应fluency，但该空修饰动词speak和write，故要填副词fluently。

【6】

考查筛选信息，分析信息，总结归纳信息的能力。根据倒数第二段介绍的是读书有助于提高记忆力。该段重复出现的remember就是提示，故填Memory。

【7】

考查筛选信息，分析信息，总结归纳信息的能力。根据倒数第二段中的“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.”可知，当你读一本书时，你必须记住许多人物，他们的背景，志向，历史以及各种故事情节。冠词后用名词，此处表示很多内容，用名词复数形式。故填contents。

【8】

考查筛选信息，分析信息，总结归纳信息的能力。根据倒数第二段中的“Amazingly enough, whenever you remember something new, new synapses are formed and existing ones are strengthened. How cool that is!”可知，令人惊奇的是，每当你想起一些新事物时，新的突触就会形成，而现有的突触也会加强。多么酷啊！此处表示记东西对大脑有好处/帮助，可以用easy，good，helpful。故填easy/good/helpful。

【9】

考查筛选信息，分析信息，总结归纳信息的能力。根据倒数第二段中的“That’s a fair bit to remember, but brains are wonderful things and can remember these things with relative ease”可知，你越努力去背诵，你越能更好地去记忆。这里考查“the+比较级，the+比较级”，表示“越……越……”，故填better。

【10】

考查筛选信息，分析信息，总结归纳信息的能力。根据最后一段中的“A well-written novel can transport you to other realms（领域）while an interesting article will distract you and keep you in the present moment, letting tensions drain away and allowing you to relax.”可知，好的作品能让你身临其境。让你感到放松忘掉忧伤，feel后面用形容词作表语，故填relaxed。