| What do we think with Only the brain
Hardly. The brain is tike a telephone exchange. It is the switchboard, but not
the whole system. Its function is to receive incoming signals, make proper
connections, and send the 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 all, can we say that the mind is in any particular place It is not a thing like a leg or even the brain. It is a function, an activity. Aristotle, twenty-three hundred years ago, observed that the mind was to the body what cutting was to the ax. 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 nec A. Bodily Communication. B. Bodily Actions. C. Spoken Language. D. Conversations. [单项选择]
Travel Across Africa For six hours we shot through the barren(荒芜的)landscape of the Karoo desert in South Africa. Just rocks and sand and baking sun. Knowing our journey was ending, Daniel and I just wanted to remember all we had seen and done. He used a camera. I used words. I had already finished three notebooks and was in to the fourth, a beautiful leather notebook I’d bought in a market in Mozambique. Southern Africa was full of stories. And visions. We were almost drunk on sensations. The roaring (咆哮)of the water at Victoria Falls, the impossible silence of the Okavango Delta in Botswana. And then the other things: dogs in the streets, whole families in Soweto living in one room a kilometre from clean water. As we drove towards the setting sun, a quietness fell over us. The road was empty—we hadn’t seen another car for hours. And as I drove, something caught my eye, something moving close enough to touch them, to smell A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned [单项选择]Passage Five
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