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    　　What do we think with? Only the brain? Hardly, the brain is like a telephone exchange. It is the switch-board （电话总机） , but not the whole system. Its function （功能） , is to receive incoming signals, make proper connections, and send the messages through to their destination （目的地） . For efficient （有效的） service, the body must function as a whole.

    　　But where is the “mind” ? Is it in the brain? Or perhaps in the nervous system? After all , can we say that the mind is in any particular place? It is a function , an activity. Aristotle , twenty-three hundred years ago , observed that the mind was to the body that cutting was to the ax （斧） . When the ax is not in use, there is no cutting. So with the mind , “Mind , ” said Charles H. Woolbert , “is what the body is doing. ”

    　　If this activity is necessary for thinking, it is also necessary for carrying thought from one person to another. Observe how people go about the business of ordinary conversation. If you have never done this painstakingly , you have a surprise in store , for good conversationalists are almost constantly in motion. Their heads are continually nodding and shaking sometimes so vigorously （有力的） that you wonder how their necks can stand the strain （拉紧）.

    　　Even the legs and feet are active. As for the hands and arms , they are seldom still for more than a few seconds at a time.

    　　These people, remember, are not making speeches. They are merely common folk trying to make others understand what they have in mind. They are not conscious of （意识到） movement. Their speech is not studied. They are just human creatures in a human environment, trying to adapt （适应） themselves to a social situation. Yet they talk , not only with oral language , but with visible actions that involve （包括） practically every muscle in the body.

    　　In short, because people really think all over, a speaker must talk all over if he succeeds in making people think.

    1．Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

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    A．Bodily Communication

    B．Bodily Actions

    C．Spoken Language

    D．Conversations

    2．Which of the following statements would the author agree with?

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    A．Thinking is social phenomenon（现象）.

    B．Thinking is only a brain function.

    C．Thinking is a function of the nervous system.

    D．Thinking is the sum total of bodily activity.

    3．In communication , it is necessary not only to employ speech , but also ________.

    [　　]

    A．to speak directly to the other person

    B．to employ a variety of bodily movements

    C．to be certain that the other person is listening

    D．to pay great attention to the other person's actions

    4．It can be inferred from the passage that the basic function of bodily activity in speech is to ________.

    [　　]

    A．make the listener feel moved

    B．make the speaker understood

    C．emphasize .the speaker's spoken words

    D．pass the speaker's implied meaning to the listener

    5．Which of the following is TRUE?

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    A．The brain is compared to a telephone exchange.

    B．The mind is an activity of the nervous system.

    C．Some people remain still while talking to others.

    D．Many people move their bodies on purpose while talking.

    答案：A;D;B;C;A
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    　　To take the apple as a forbidden fruit is the most unlikely strory the Christians(基督教徒)ever cooked up．For them, the forbidden fruit from Eden is evil(邪恶的)．So when Colu brought the tomato back from South America, a land mistakenly considered to be eden, ever jumped to be the obvious conclusion．Wrongly taken as the apple of Eden, the tomato was shut o the door of Europeans．

    　　What made it particularly terrifying was its similarity to the mandrake, a plant that was the to have come from Hell(地狱)．What earned the plant its awful reputation was its roots w looked like a dried-up human body occupied by evil spirits．Tough the tomato and the man were quite different except that both had bright red or yellow fruit, the general population consio them one and the same, to terrible to touch．

    　　Cautious Europeans long ignored the tomato, and until the early 1700s most of the We people continued to drag their feet．In the 1880s, the daughter of a well-known plant expert that the most interestinig part of an afternoon tea at her father's house had been the “introduction this wonderful new fruit-or is it a vegetable?”As late as the twentieth century some writers classed tomatoes with mandrakes as an”evil fruit”．

    　　But in the end tomatoes carried the day．The hero of the tomato was an American named R Johnson, and when he was publicly going to eat the tomato in 1820, people journeyed for hun of miles to watch him drop dead．”Wha are you afraid of?”he shouted．”I'll show you fools these things are good to eat!” Then he bit into the tomato．Some people fainted．But he sur and, according to a local story, set up a tomato-canning factory．

    (1)

    The tomato was shut out of the door of early Europeans mainly because ________．

    [　　]

    A．

    it made Christive evil

    B．

    it was the apple of Eden

    C．

    it came from a forbidden land

    D．

    it was religiously unacceptable

    (2)

    What can we infer the underlined part in Paragraph 3?

    [　　]

    A．

    The process of ignoring the tomato slowed down

    B．

    There was little pregress in the study of the tomato

    C．

    The tomato was still refused in most western countries

    D．

    Most western people continued to get rid of the tomato

    (3)

    What is the main reason for Robert Johnson to eat the tomato Publicly?

    [　　]

    A．

    To manke imself a hero

    B．

    To remove people's fear of the tomaoto

    C．

    To speed up the popularityt of the tomato

    D．

    To persuade people to buy products fo\rom his factory

    (4)

    What is the main purpose of the passage?

    [　　]

    A．

    To challenge people's fixed concept of the tomato

    B．

    To give an explanation to people's dislike of the tomato

    C．

    To present the change of people's attitudes to the tomato

    D．

    To show the process of freeing the tomato from religious influence

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