A moment s drilling by the dentist may make us nervous and upset.Many of us cannot stand pain. To avoid the pain of a drilling that may lastperhaps a minute or two, we demand theneedle- a shot of novocaine -thatdeadens the nerves around the tooth. Now it s true that the human body has developed its millions ofnerves to be highly aware of what goes on both inside and outside of it. Thishelps us adjust to the world. Without our nerves - and our brain, which is abundle of nerves - we wouldn t know what s happening. But we pay for oursensitivity. We can feel pain when the slightest thing is wrong with any partof our body. The history of torture is based on the human body being open topain. But there is a way to handle pain. Look at the Indian fakirwho sitson a bed of nails. Fakirs can put a needle right through an arm, and feel nopain. This ability that some humans have developed to handle pain should giveus ideas about how the mind can deal with pain. The big thing in withstanding pain is our attitude toward it. If thedentist says, This will hurt a little, it helps us to accept the pain. Bystaying relaxed, and by treating the pain as an interesting sensation, we canhandle the pain without falling apart. After all, although pain is anunpleasant sensation, it is still a sensation, and sensations are the stuff oflife. 31. The passage is mainly about. A) how to suffer pain B) how to avoid pain C) how to handle pain D) how to stop pain 32. The sentence But we pay for our sensitivity. in the secondparagraph implies that. A)we should pay a debt for our feeling B)we have to be hurt when we feel something C)our pain is worth feeling D)when we feel pain, we are suffering it 33. When the author mentions the Indian fakir, he suggests that. A)Indians are not at all afraid of pain B)people may be senseless of pain C)some people are able to handle pain D)fakirs have magic to put needles right through their arms 34. the most important thing to handle pain is. A) how we look at pain B) to feel painas much as possible C) to show an interest in pain D) to accept thepain reluctantly 35. The author s attitude towards pain is. A) pessimisticB) optimistic C) radical D) practical Passage 7 31.C32.D33.C34.A35.B
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