You have probably seen ads （广告) in newspaper or on television for mail-order companies. Perhaps a catalogue （商品目录) has been sent to you. Why do people buy things they have not seen in person？ Some people believe that things can be bought more cheaply by mail. Another good thing about buying by mail is that it is easier and more enjoyable to sit at home and work through a catalogue than to shop around the stores. With a catalogue from a large company, you have your own shop window for almost everything you want to buy.
Buying from a catalogue is so easy. It saves the shopper's time and trouble. Sometimes, it saves the shopper's money, too. But people often buy more than they can really afford（付得起) or need, because many things look so good to them. They can probably pay a certain part of the full price—a down payment. Then they pay a certain amount of money every month until the goods is paid for in full. But by then they often find what they have bought are of no use at all.
Why do people buy things without seeing them in person？
A．To enjoy themselves.
B．To save money and trouble.
C．To get more than they need.
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The author cites Spinoza's belief that "mind and body exist in pre-established coordination" most likely in order to
A．prove that Descartes confused the true distinction between consciousness and extension
B．suggest the logical assumption behind Spinoza's embrace of dualism
C．lay the groundwork for psychophysical parallelism's rejection of occasionalism
D．deny that any outside entity could be responsible for both mental and physical events
E．establish why he believed mental events could not determine physical motions -
Bacteria are sometimes __ too small to be seen without a microscope.
A．far
B．rather
C．quite
D．very -
The author's reaction to the attempts to create experimental means to distinguish trigeminal response and pure odor response can best be described as one of
A．enthusiasm
B．expectation
C．dismay
D．skepticism
E．antipathy -
According to the passage, which of the following events is most analogous to the relationship between thought and event articulated by psychophysical parallelism？
A．A man looks in a mirror and, as a result, of the effect of cognition, sees his own reflections.
B．One thought in a sentient entity leads, by virtue of the stream of consciousness, to another thought.
C．A match is struck, and through the effects of a physical law, it ignites into flame.
D．Every time a ping-pong ball is bounced, a tree falls, but through no causal relationship.
E．A human being makes a mental judgment based on physical phenomena he has observed. -
Though agreeing with Descartes that consciousness and extension are
qualitatively distinct, Spinoza's dual-aspect theory denied that consciousness
and extension are inherent characteristics of two finite substances, treating
them instead as attributes of the infinite substance of a transcendent
（5) intelligence. While mental occurrences can dictate only other mental
occurrences and physical motions can determine only other physical motions,
mind and body exist in pre-established coordination, since the same self
-consistent intelligence establishes affinities and connections within both classes.
Another alternative, psychophysical parallelism, retains both the dualism of
（10) mind and body and the notion of a regular correlation between mental and
physical events, but avoids any assumption of causal mind-body connection,
direct or indirect. Psychophysical parallelism eschews interactionism, stating
that mental and physical could not possibly affect one another, and also rejects
occasionalism and dual-aspect theory on the grounds that no third entity,
（15) including a transcendent intelligence, could be responsible for such vastly different
effects. Parallelists accept only pure correlations, not causation, between mental and
physical events.
According to the passage, psychophysical parallelists would be LEAST likely to agree with which of the following views attributed to Spinoza？
A．Through a relationship of correlation, mental occurrences can only determine other mental occurrences.
B．Through a relationship of causation, physical occurrences can only determine other physical occurrences.
C．Mind and body exist in pre-established coordination provided by a third entity, transcendent intelligence.
D．Consciousness and extension, as separate finite qualities, may be described as distinct.
E．One of the necessary attributes of any divine essence is its infinitude.