新视野阅读题3-2.doc

( 3 – 10 A ) Some psychologists maintain that mental acts such as thinking are not performed in the brain alone, but that one’s muscles also participate. It may be said that we think with our muscles in somewhat the same way that we listen to music with our bodies. You surely are not surprised to be told that you usually listen to music not only with your ears but with your whole body. Few people can listen to music that is more or less familiar without moving their body or, more specifically, some part of their body. Often when one listens to a symphonic (交响乐的) concert on the radio, he is tempted to direct the orchestra (乐队) even though he knows there is a competent conductor on the job. Strange as this behavior may be, there is a very good reason for it. One cannot derive all possible enjoyment from music unless he participates, so to speak, in its performance. The listener “feels” himself into the music with more or less pronounced motions of the body. The muscles of the body actually participate in the mental process of thinking in the same way, but this participation is less obvious because it is less pronounced. The process of thinking is different from that of listening in that __________. A) the former is more serious B) the latter is more enjoyable C) muscle participation is less apparent to the former D) the former is a mental process while the latter not Some psychologists believe that thinking is __________. only a mental process in the brain much more of a physical process than a mental action a process performed by the entire body a process involving the muscles as well as the brain The “pronounced motions” of the body is a music listener’s way of __________. enjoying and participating in the music expressing how he likes he music directing the orchestra playing the music performing with his body People enjoy the music fully with __________. A) their ear