首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
One of the most strikingly apparent instances of extrasensory perception is the precognitive experience, when a person has a com
One of the most strikingly apparent instances of extrasensory perception is the precognitive experience, when a person has a com
admin
2010-01-13
17
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。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/ugmi777K
0
在职申硕(同等学力)英语
相关试题推荐
Youmayneverexperienceanearthquakeoravolcaniceruptioninyourlife,butyouwill______changesintheland.
Ecotourismismeantto______.Accordingtothepassage,asolutiontothe"ecotourism"problemisto______.
Inthefirstparagraph,theauthorsuggeststhataqualityeducationcan______Accordingtothepassage,whichofthefollowin
Mysurpriseoverthepastfewwintershasbeenthepersonalitytransformationmyparentsgothrougharoundmid-Decemberasthey
Thethreebranchesofgovernment--thelegislative,theexecutive,andthe______--restrainandstabilizeoneanotherthroughthe
Thecostofhealthcareandhealthinsuranceremainsthemosturgenthealthproblemfacingthecountrytoday.
Unemploymentseemstobethe______socialprobleminthisareaandmayunderminesocialstability.
随机试题
在以下的文件材料中,应当进行立卷的有()
区段地价是某个特定地价区段的()。
焊缝内部质量检查的方法主要有()检测。
甲公司在对发行债券筹集资金专项用于购建固定资产业务进行账务处理时,不可能涉及的会计科目是()。
甲公司为上海证券交易所上市公司,2014年1~5月份发生了下列事项:(1)1月5日,控股股东A公司通过上海证券交易所集中竞价交易增持公司股份500万股,占公司已发行股份总数的0.11%;A公司拟在未来12个月内择机增持公司股份,累计增持比例不超过公司已发
实施乡村旅游扶贫重点村环境整治行动,到2020年,完成50万户贫困户()的“三改一整”工程。
关于立法的原则,下列说法表述正确的是
中共八大的内容包括()
52
Readthispassageaboutadvertisingmedia.ChoosethebestsentencefromthelistA—Gtofillineachofthegaps.Foreachgap
最新回复
(
0
)