成人本科学位英语模拟试卷120
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Some psychologists(心理学家) 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 without moving their body or, more specifically, some part of their body. Often when one listens to a symphonic concert on the radio, he is attracted to direct the orchestra (乐队) even though he knows there is a good 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 \\
1.Some psychologists think that thinking is________.(D)
A. not a mental process
B. more of a physical process than a mental action
C. a process that involves our entire bodies
D. a process that involves the muscles as well as the brain
解析：事实细节题。第一段第一句提到一些心理学家认为精神活动，如：思考，不仅是大脑的活动，而且肌肉也参与其中，所以选D。
2.The process of thinking and that of listening to music are similar in that________.(B)
A. both are mental acts
B. muscles participate in both processes
C. both processes are performed by the entire body
D. we derive equal enjoyment from them
解析：事实细节题。第一段最后一句提到我们用肌肉思考与用身体听音乐在某种程度上是一样的，所以选B。
3.Few people are able to listen to familiar music without________.(A)
A. moving some part of their body
B. stopping what they are doing to listen
C. directing the orchestra playing it
D. wishing that they could conduct music properly
解析：事实细节题。第二段中提到很少有人听音乐时不扭动自己的身体，所以选A。
4.The listener’ s way of \\(B)
A. the unnoticed motion of his muscles
B. participatingin the performance
C. bending an ear to the music
D. being the conductor of the orchestra
解析：推理判断题。第三段第二句提到如果一个人不参与到音乐中，也就是音乐演奏中，那他就无法从音乐中获得所有的乐趣。
5.According to the passage, muscle participation in the process of thinking is________.(C)
A. deliberate
B. apparent
C. indistinct
D. impressive
解析：事实细节题。文章最后一句提到肌肉以同样的方式参与了思考的过程，但并不是十分明显，因为它不是很容易被注意到。distinct“明显的，显著的”，前缀in表示否定。indistinct“不明显的，不显著的”。
It is difficult to imagine what life would be like without memory. The meanings of thousands of everyday perceptions, the bases for the decisions we make, and the roots of our habits and skills are to be found in our past experiences, which are brought into the present by memory.
Memory can be defined as the capacity to keep information available for later use. It includes not only \\
6.According to the passage, memory is considered to be________.(B)
A. the basis for decision making and problem solving
B. an ability to store experiences for future use
C. an intelligence typically possessed by human beings
D. the data mainly consisting of words and combinations of words
解析：事实细节题。根据文章第二段第一句，记忆力就是储存信息以供将来使用的能力。所以选B。A、C、D都是记忆力特点的一个方面，不能单独解释记忆力。
7.The comparison made between the memory capacity of a large computer and that of a human being shows that________.(C)
A. the computer’ s memory has a
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