北京航空航天大学博士研究生入学考试英语试题.doc

北京航空航天大学2006年博士研究生入学考试英语试题 Part Ⅰ Listening Comprehension (20 points) (略) Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (30 points) Directions: There are four passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them, there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D．Read the passages carefully and decide on the best choice. Then mark the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center. Passage 1 Some psychologists maintain that mental acts such as thinking are not performed in the brain alone, but that ones 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 concert on the radio, he is tempted to direct the orchestra 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 his 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. 21．Some psychologists maintain that thinking is ______. A．not a mental process B．more of a physical process than a mental action C．a process that involves your entire body D．a process that involves the muscles as well as the brain 22．Few people are able to listen to familiar music without ______. 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 cou