When you move, when you feel the weight of your arms and legs and the natural resistance of the objects around you, the "felt" image of yourself starts to. become clearer. It is almost as if it were created by your own actions and the feelings they cause.
The image you create for yourself has rather strange proportions: certain parts feel much larger than they look. If you get a hole in one of your teeth, it feels enormous, you are often surprised by how small it looks when you inspect it in the mirror.
But although the "felt" image may not have the shape you see in the mirror, it is much more important. It is the image through which you recognise your physical existence in the world. In spite of its strange proportions, it is all one piece, and since it has a consistent right and left and top and bottom, it allows yon to locate new feelings when they occur. It allows you to find your nose in the dark and point to a pain.
If the felt image is damaged for any reason-if it is cut in half or lost as it often is after certain strokes which wipe out recognition of one entire side-these tasks become almost impossible.
What is more, it becomes hard to make sense of one’s own visual appearance. If one half of the "felt "image is wiped out or injured, the patient stops recognising the 3ffected part of his body.
It is hard for him to find the location of feelings on that side, and, Although he feels the doctor’s touch, he locates it as being on the undamaged side.
44. According to the passage, the "felt" image is ________ the "mirror" image .
A. much larger than
B. clearer than
C. less clear than
D. less important th3n
45. The felt image becomes clearer when you move, for ________.
A. your own actions create it
B. your actions become part of it
C. you are surprised by what you see in the mirror
D. moving is better than lying still
46. It is implied in the passage that people who are paralysed(瘫痪) must have very vague images of themselves because ________.
A. they lose their consciousness
B. they shut their eyes
C. they do not move
D. they look in the mirror
47. Which of the following statements is true?
A. Some patients who have had strokes cannot see one side of their bodies .
B. Patients who have had strokes are easy to imagine the "felt" images .
C. The strokes the writer writes about eliminate the whole of the "felt" image.
D. The strokes the writer writes about do not destroy feeling in the affected part of the body.
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