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One of the most strikingly apparent instances of extrasensory perception is the precognitive experience, when a person has a com

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问题    One of the most strikingly apparent instances of extrasensory perception is the precognitive experience, when a person has a compelling perception of a coming disaster, news of death of a loved one, or a communication from a long-lost friend, and the predicted event then happens. Many who have had such experiences report that the emotional intensity of the precognition and its subsequent verification provide an overpowering sense of contact with another realm of reality. I have had such an experience myself. Many years ago, I awoke in the middle of night in a cold sweat, with a certain knowledge that a close relative had suddenly died. I was so gripped with the haunting intensity of the experience that I was afraid to place a long-distance phone call, (for fear that the relative would trip over the telephone cord or something and make the experience a self-fulfilling prediction). In fact, the relative is alive and well, and whatever psychological roots the experience may have, it was not a reflection of an imminent event in the real world.
   However, suppose the relative had in fact died that night. You would have had a difficult time convincing me that it was merely coincidence. But it is easy to calculate that if each American has such a premonitory experience a few times in his lifetime, the actual statistics alone will produce a few apparent precognitive events somewhere in America each year. We can calculate that this must occur fairly frequently, but to the rare person who dreams of disaster, followed rapidly by its realization, it is uncanny and awesome. Such a coincidence must happen to someone every few months. But those who experience a correct precognition understandably resist its explanation by coincidence.
   After my experience I did not write a letter to an institute of psychology relating a compelling predictive dream that was not borne out by reality. That is not a memorable letter. But had the death I dreamt actually occurred, such a letter would have been marked down as evidence for precognition. The hits are recorded; the misses are not. Thus human nature unconsciously conspires to produce a biased reporting of the frequency of such events.
The author’s case shows precognitive experience ______.
选项 A、often coincides with reality
B、often turns out to be unnecessary worries
C、arises from troubled mind
D、expresses a person’s secret wishes
答案B
解析 根据第一段，本文作者很逼真地梦到一位近亲突然死去，以至于他从夜梦中惊醒，但事实是他/她的这位亲属不仅活着，而且还活得好好的，可以说是虚惊一场。这个没有应验的梦说明人们(因“先知体验”所产生)的担心往往是多余的。C、D两个选项试图探究“先知体验”产生的原因，是不正确的，因为根据第一段尾句，“我的这次‘先知体验’不论是出自什么心理根源，总归不是现实世界行将发生的事件的反映。”可见，造成“先知体验”的原因是不明确的。
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