Section A
Directions：In this section。thereis a passage with ten are required to select one word for each blankfrom a list ofchoices given in a word bankfollowing the the passage through carefully before making your choice in the bank is identified by a letter Please mark the corresponding letterfor each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the may not use any ofthe words in the bank more than once.
Questions 36 to 45 are based on thefollowingpassage.
“THINKING is hard，”(36)__________Daniel Dennet，a professor of philosophy at Tufts University.“Thinking about some problems is so hard that it can make your head ache just thinking about thinking about them.”He has spent hA.f a century pondering some of the knottiest problems around：the nature of meaning，the(37)__________of minds and whether freewill is latest book，Intuition Pumps(直覺泵)and Other Tools for Thinking，is a precis of those 50 years，distilled into 77(38)__________ and mostly bite-sized chapters.
“Intuiuon pumps”are what Mr Dennet calls thought experiments that aim to get at the rub of the aim of this book is not(39)__________to show how the pumps work,but to(40)__________them to help readers think through some of the most profound conundrums.
This pump which Mr Dennet calls a“cascade of homunculi(級聯侏儒)”，was(41)__________by the field of artificial Intelligence,An programmer begins by taking a problem a computer is meant to solve and breaking it down into smaller tasks，to be dealt with by particular(42)__________e，in turn，are(43)__________ of ystems，and so this way,we are in depth of thinking profound problems.
Of course，Mr Dennet’s book is not a(44)__________solution to such mind-benders;it is philosophy in all good philosophy,it works by getting the reader to examine deeply held but(45)__________ beliefs about some of our most fundamental concems，like personal is really not all easy read.
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塔夫斯大學的一名哲學教授丹尼爾•丹尼特(36)承認：“思考是困難的，某些問題的思考之難，幾乎到了只要一想這些問題就會頭疼的地步。在過去半個世紀裏，他一直在沉思那些最耐人尋味的問題：意義的本質，思想的(37)實質以及自由意志的可行性等。最近，他的力作《思考的工具：直覺泵及其他》新鮮出爐，由77篇既(38)有可讀性又短小精悍的文章組成，是他五十多年來思考之濃縮，覃思之精華。
“直覺泵”是丹尼特用來稱呼思想實驗的術語。所謂思想實驗就是一種意在探究概念內核的實驗。本書的目的(39)不僅僅在於展示“直覺泵”的工作流程，更重要的是通過(40)運用“直覺泵”，幫助讀者去揣摩那些最值得考慮的難題。
丹內特把這種泵稱爲“級聯侏儒”，其(41)靈感來自於人工智能領域。當一名程序員接受了一項有待計算機解決的任務時，他首先會把這項任務分解爲一些更小的任務，然後把這些任務交給一些特定的(42)子系統去解決，而這些子系統又是由更小的.子子系統(43)組成的，以此類推。只有這樣，這些問題才能得以深思。
當然，丹內特的書並不是這些令人迷惑的問題的(44)終極答案。相反的，是對此類問題的終極思考。如同所有終極思考一樣，該書通過讓讀者對那些深藏於我們內心卻又(45)無法言說的信念進行檢討，從而達到自己的目的。它確實不是一本易讀懂的書。
