問題詳情

Passage 3: Questions 38-40     Several different things happen when a person is hypnotized. People in deep hypnosis don’tseem to think anything unless the hypnotist tells them to. There are different levels of hypnosis.People usually have to practice by being hypnotized several times in order to reach the deeper levels.Hypnosis is not sleep. The brain waves of hypnotized people are like those who are awake. If youfeel like speculating, consider this: The brain waves of people most easily hypnotized often showright cortex activation. Surgeons have successfully used it to suggest that the person can feel no pain.They have removed an appendix with no anesthesia. People can often remember things underhypnosis that they can’t remember in the normal state. This may be due to their increased focus ofattention.    Hypnosis raises important questions about the organization of the human brain. We know thereare levels of organization in the brain. As you read this, for example, a lower part of your brain isregulating your body temperature without your thinking about it. Another part is organizing all theselittle squiggly patterns on paper into words that make sense. Some theorists have said that whathappens in hypnosis is that levels in the brain become disconnected. The subject’s conscious level isrestricted to the things that hypnotist suggests; nothing else is allowed into that consciousness. If thesubject’s arm is hurt, and the hypnotist says, “No, it’s not,” the subject doesn’t experience the pain atconscious level. It might as well not exist. All we are aware of is what we are conscious of. Inhypnosis, goes this theory, the content of your conscious brain comes under the direction of thehypnotist. Why this happens, or how it happens, is not known.
38.The author’s primary purpose in this passage is
(A) to explain hypnosis in history.
(B) to explain why people want to be hypnotized.
(C) to summarize the need for hypnosis in modern society.
(D) to explain what hypnosis is.

參考答案

答案：D
難度：適中0.5
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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