【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[听力原文]
Some psychologists 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 as we listen to music with our bodies.
Yon surely are not surprised to be told that yon usually listen to music not only with your ears but also with your whole body. Few people can listen to music that is more or less familiar without moving their body or more specifically, some parts of their body. Often when one listens to a 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 behaviour may be, there is a very good reason fur it. One cannot derive all possible enjoyment from music unless he participates, so to speak, in its performance. The listener "feels" himself to the music with more or less noticeable 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 lass noticeable.
According to the passage, what do some psychologists maintain about thinking?
[解析] 选项中的mental process/action, physical process和muscles as well as the brain表明,本题可能与人的思想活动或身体活动有关。短文开头就提到,一些心理学家认为人在进行类似思考这样的脑力活动时,不是只有大脑参与,人的肌肉也参与,故答案为D。
but转折处为常考点,是听音重点。
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[听力原文]
Why do people move their body while listening to familiar music?
[解析] 选项均以“To+原形动词”开头以及其中的understand the music, enjoy the music表明,本题考查与音乐有关的行为目的。短文中首先提到,很少有人在听到稍微熟悉的音乐时不摇动整个身体或某些身体部位,后面提到,一个人如果不参与到音乐的演奏中去,他就无法享受到所有的乐趣(derive all possible enjoyment),由此可知,人们听到熟悉的音乐时摇动身体是为了充分享受音乐,故答案为C。
本题需要对短文中相关的信息进行整合。