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. 1 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.