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

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

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问题     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. [br] In communication, it is essential not only to employ speech, but also______.
选项 A、to speak directly to the other person.
B、to employ a variety of bodily movements
C、to be certain that the other person is listening
D、to pay great attention to the other person’s behavior
答案 B
解析 本题问在人们进行交流时，不仅要运用语言，还要运用什么。文章第五段最后一句指出，人们在谈话时，不仅用口头语言，实际上还包括人体的每一块肌肉所带来的可见到的动作。因此，本题的正确答案应是B“还要运用各种各样的身体动作”。
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