Whatdowethinkwith?Onlythebrain?Hardly．Thebrainislikeate...

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What do we think with? Only the brain? Hardly．The brain is like a telephone exchange．It is

the switchboard，but not the whole system．Its function is to receive incoming signals，making proper connections and send messages through to their destination．For efficient 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 a11, can we say that the mind is in any particular place? It is not like a thing；like a leg，or even the brain．It is a function，an activity．Aristotle，2，300 years ago，observed that the mind was to the body what cutting was to the axe．

When the axe 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．If you have never done this with great efforts，you have a surprise in store，for good conversationalists are almost constantly in motion．Their heads are continuously nodding and shaking sometimes so energetically（精神旺盛地）that you wonder how their necks can stand the strain（過度勞累）．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 only common people trying to make others understand what they have in mind．They are not conscious of movement．Their speech is not studied．They are just human creatures in a human environment，trying to adapt themselves to a social situation．Yet they converse，not only with oral language，but with visible actions that involve 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．The best tide for the passage is probably               ．

      A．Body Communication                         B．Written Language

      C．Spoken Language                               D．Conversations

2．The statement which the author agrees with would be that         ．

      A．thinking is a social activity

      B．thinking is only a brain function

      C．thinking is a function of the nervous system

      D．thinking is the total sum of body activity

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

                     ．

    A．make the listener have strong feeling

    B．make tile speaker understood

    C．attract the listeners’ attention

    D．convey the speaker’s implied meaning to the listeners

4．Which of the following is true?

      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．

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