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07年1月真题 Passage One In a purely biological sense, fear begins with the bodys system for reacting to things that can harm us -- the so-called fight-or-flight response. An animal that cant detect danger cant stay alive, says Joseph LeDoux. Like animals, humans evolved with an elaborate mechanism for processing information about potential threats. At its core is a cluster of neurons (神经元) deep in the brain known as the amygdala(扁桃体). LeDoux studies the way animals and humans respond to threats to understand how we form memories of significant events in our lives. The amygdala receives inp