单选题
Our ability to think has long been considered central to what makes us human. Now research suggests that our bodies and their relationship with the environment (1) even our most abstract thoughts. This includes thinking up random numbers or deciding (2) to review positive or negative experiences. "Advocates of traditional (3) of cognition would be surprised," says Tobias Loetscher at the University of Melbourne in Parkville, Australia. "They (4) consider human reasoning to involve abstract cognitive processes without any connection to body or space." Until recently, the (5) has been that our bodies (6) only to our most basic interactions with the environment, (7) sensory and motor processes. The new results suggest that our bodies are also (8) to produce abstract thought, and that even seemingly (9) activities have the power to influence our thinking. (10) that our bodies may play a role in thought can be found in the metaphors we use to describe situations, (11) "I was given the cold shoulder" or "she has an excellent grasp of relativity". Thirty years ago, such (12) led the linguist and philosopher George Lakoff at the University of Califor- nia, Berkeley, together with philosopher Mark Johnson at the University of Oregon in Eugene, to (13) "conceptual metaphor theory", the notion that we think of abstract concepts (14) how our bodies function. Now (15) for the theory has started to (16) in. In 2008, (17) , researchers found that people made to feel socially (18) reported feeling physically colder. Now, Loetscher and his colleagues have (19) our ability to think of random numbers--an example of abstract thought--to bodily (20)
【答案解析】语义逻辑题。 sensory and motor processes是对most basic interactions with the environment的具体说明,故选namely“即”。particularly说明还有其他,与句意不符;similarly“类似地”和commonly“通常地,平凡地”也不合句子逻辑。
【答案解析】语义逻辑题。根据该句出现的can be found可推断,空格处应填入表“线索,提示”含义的名词,选C。若选择:fact“事实,真相”,会感觉到此处的表述过于绝对,其后的Thirty years ago提示这种情况在很早之前就有了,但是否得到证实作者并未提及;doubts和confilanations则不合逻辑。
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】关联词题。空格后面的部分是metaphors we use to describe situations的例证,因此选B。考查句子间的逻辑关系。A“偶然,意外”,C“至于,按照”,D“实际上,事实上”。
【答案解析】关联词题。空格所在句的上一句说道,不断有证据支持这个理论。空格所在句就是其中的一个证据。即是这些证据的一个例子。所以,A符合句意逻辑。in a sense意为“从某种意义上说”;in addition指“另外”。
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】语义逻辑题。根据身体活动和思维的关系,再联系本句关键词physically colder“身体更冷”,可以判断,此人在思维和感情上也是感到孤独的,也就是说,受到社会排斥。因此选B“被排斥,被冷落”。A与句意相悖,可首先排除;severe“严厉的”,常使用于be severe on sb.(对……严厉)中;alien“陌生的,外国的”,不妥。