[单项选择]The human body has developed its millions of nerves to be highly aware of what goes on both inside and outside of it. This helps us adjust to the outside world. Without our nerves and our brain, which is a system of nerves, we couldn’t know what’s happening. But we pay for our sensitivity. We can feel pain when the slightest thing is wrong with any part of our body. The history of torture (折磨) is based on the human body being open to pain.
But there is a way to handle pain. Look at the Indian fakir (苦行僧) who sits on a bed of nails. Fakirs can put a needle fight through an arm, and feel no pain. This ability that some humans have developed to handle pain should give us ideas about how the mind can deal with pain.
The big thing in withstanding pain is our attitude toward it. If the dentist says, "This will hurt a little," it helps us to accept the pain. By staying relaxed, and by treating the pain as an interesting sensation (感觉), we can handle the pain without falling apar
A. stay relaxed
B. avoid pain
C. stand torture
D. feel pain

[单项选择]The human body has developed its millions of nerves to be highly aware of what goes on both inside and outside of it. This helps us adjust to the outside world. Without our nerves and our brain, which is a system of nerves, we couldn’t know what’s happening. But we pay for our sensitivity. We can feel pain when the slightest thing is wrong with any part of our body. The history of torture (折磨) is based on the human body being open to pain.
But there is a way to handle pain. Look at the Indian fakir (苦行僧) who sits on a bed of nails. Fakirs can put a needle fight through an arm, and feel no pain. This ability that some humans have developed to handle pain should give us ideas about how the mind can deal with pain.
The big thing in withstanding pain is our attitude toward it. If the dentist says, "This will hurt a little," it helps us to accept the pain. By staying relaxed, and by treating the pain as an interesting sensation (感觉), we can handle the pain without falling apar
A. We have to take care of our sense of pain.
B. We suffer from our sense of feeling.
C. We should try hard to resist pain.
D. We are hurt when we feel pain.

[简答题]Every human society has its own particular culture, or sociocultural system, which overlaps to some extent with other systems. Variation among sociocultural systems is attributable to physical habitats and resources; to the range of possibilities inherent in various areas of activity, such as language, rituals and customs, and the manufacture and use of tools, and to the degree of social development. Adaptation and change take place within and among cultures by means of ecological and environmental changes.

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The human species has increased its life span by ______.

[填空题]Now it’s true that the human body has developed its millions of nerves to be highly aware of what goes on both inside and outside of it. This helps us adjust to the world. Without our nerves and our brain, which is a bundle of nerves - we wouldn’t know what’s happening. ______ We can feel pain when the slightest thing is wrong with any part of our body. The history of torture is based on the human body being open to pain.

• A. This ability that some humans have developed to handle pain should give us ideas about how the mind can deal with pain.
• B. The big thing in withstanding pain is our attitude toward it.
• C. However, many of us cannot stand pain.
• D. Look at the Indian fakir (行僧) who sits on a bed of nails.
• E. We demand the ctneedie" -a shot of novocaine (奴佛卡因，一种局部麻醉剂) - that deadens the nerves around the tooth.
• F. But we pay for our sensitivity.

[填空题]Now it’s tree that the human body has developed its millions of nerves to be highly aware of what goes on both inside and outside of it. This helps us adjust to the world. Without our nerves and our brain, which is a bundle of nerves-we wouldn’t know what’s happening. ______ We can feel pain when the slightest thing is wrong with any part of our body. The history of torture is based on the human body being open to pain.

• A. This ability that some humans have developed to handle pain should give us ideas about how the mind can deal with pain.
• B. The big thing in withstanding pain is our attitude toward it.
• C. However, many of us cannot stand pain.
• D. Look at the Indian fakir (行僧) who sits on a bed of nails.
• E. We demand the "needle"—a shot of novocaine (奴佛卡因, 一种局部麻醉剂)-that deadens the nerves around the tooth.
• F. But we pay for our sensitivity.

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