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W: My mother told me to keep away from the swimming pool
M: Did she Then shall we go to the park to roller-skate
W: Good idea! I am crazy about roller-skates! When shall we go
M: What time suits you It doesn’t make any difference to me.
W: Shall we meet in front of the school gate at 8:00a. m. and go to the park together
M: No problem. By the way, you have to wear a helmet when roller-skating. Do you have one
W: Oh, dear, I don’t.
M: Don’t worry. I have two helmets. I can lend you one tomorrow.
| What do we think with Only the brain
Hardly. The brain is tike 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 nec A. Bodily Communication. B. Bodily Actions. C. Spoken Language. D. Conversations. [单项选择]Only which lake among the five lakes belong to America completely while the other four shared with Canada
[A] Lake Superior. [B] Lake Erie. [C] Lake Michigan. [D] Lake Huron. [单项选择]In 1830, only a few miles away from what is now the great city of Cincinnati, lay an immense and almost unbroken forest. The whole region was sparsely settled by people of the frontier—restless souls who no sooner had hewn fairly habitable homes out of the wilderness and attained to that degree of prosperity which today we should call indigence, then, impelled by some mysterious impulse of their nature, they abandoned all and pushed farther westward, to encounter new perils and privations in the effort to regain the meagre comforts which they had voluntarily renounced. Many of them had already forsaken that region for the remoter settlements, but among those remaining was one who had been of those first arriving. He lived alone in a house of logs surrounded on all sides by the great forest, of whose gloom and silence he seemed a part, for no one had ever known him to smile nor speak a needless word. His simple wants were supplied by the sale or barter of skins of wild animals in the ri
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