2016年成人学位英语考试模拟试题及答案（1）
Passage 3
Questions11 to 15 are based on the following passage:
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. (76) 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 "feels" himself into the music with more or less noticeable motions of his body.
( 77 ) 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 noticeable.
11. Some psychologists think that thinking is
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
12. The process of thinking and that of listening to music are similar in that
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
13. 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 could conduct music properly
14. The listener's way of "feeling" the music is
A. the unnoticed motion of his muscles
B. "participating" in the performance
C. bending an ear to the music
D. being the conductor of the orchestra
15. According to the passage, muscle participation in the process of thinking is
A. deliberate
B. Apparent
C. indistinct
D. impressive
Part II Vocabulary and Structure (30 % )
Directions: In this part there are 30 incomplete sentences. For each sentence there are four choices marked A,B, C and D. Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
16. Darkness doesn' t trouble cats, for they can see__________
A. in dark
B. in the dark
C. in a darkness
D. in darkness
17. The earthquake happened in__________
A. late 1960s
B. the late of 1960s
C. late of 1960s
D. late of the 1960s
18. If you want to become a doctor, you ought to study__________
A. medicine
B. the medicine
C. literature
D. the literature
19. I' ve got__________ today.
A. the bad toothache
B. a bad toothache
C. bad toothaches
D. the bad toothaches
20. "What' s in your hand?"
"It is a__________ bill. "
A. two-thousand dollar
B. two thousand dollars
C. two-thousand-dollar
D. two-thousand-dollars