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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
What do we think with? Only the brain? Hardly. The brain is like a telephone exchange. It is the switchboard, but not the whole
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2014-04-23
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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, 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 necessary for carrying thought from one person to another. Observe how people go about 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 that you wonder how their necks can stand the strain.
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 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.
It can be inferred from the passage that the basic function of bodily activity in speech is to
选项
A、make the listener feel emotional
B、make the speaker understood
C、strengthen the speaker’s oral words
D、convey the speaker’s implied meaning to the listener
答案
C
解析
本题问我们可以从本文中推断出讲话时身体部位运动的主要作用是什么。根据文章第三段和第五段的内容可知,交流和思维一样,也是人体全身各部位综合作用的结果。观察一下人们是如何进行平常的谈话的,好的谈话人几乎一直不停地在动,他们不断点头、摇头,有时动作之大让你觉得他们的脖子怎么能承受得了。即便是腿和脚也很活跃,至于手和胳膊更是一刻不停地在动。而这些人并不是在演讲,只是想尽力使别人了解自己所想表达的东西。因此,人们在谈话时总有些基本的身体动作,目的是为了加强说话人的言语。所以,本题的正确答案应是C“加强人的口语表达”。
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