Hi! Have you ever suddenly felt that someone you knew
was in trouble — and was he? Have you ever dreamed something that came true
later? Maybe you have ESP (超感觉知觉).
ESP stands
for Extrasensory Perception. It may be called a sixth sense. It seems to let
people know about events before they happen, or events that are happening some
distance away.
Here’s an
example. A woman was ironing clothes. Suddenly she screamed, “My father is
dead! I saw him sitting in the chair!” Just then, a telegram came. The woman’s
father died of a heart attack. He died sitting in a chair.
There are
thousands of stories like this one on record. Scientists are studying them to
find out what’s behind these strange mental messages. Here’s another
example—one of hundreds of dreams that have come true.
A man dreamed he was walking along a road when a horse
and a carriage came by. The driver said, “There is room for one more.” The man
felt the driver seemed dead, so he ran away. The next day, when the man was
getting on a crowded bus, the bus driver said, “There is room for one more.”
Then the man
saw that the driver’s face was the same face he had seen in the dream. He
wouldn’t get on the bus. As the bus drove off, it crashed and burst into
flames. Everyone was killed!
Some people
say stories like these are coincidences. Others, including some scientists,
say that ESP is real. From studies of ESP, we may someday learn more about the
human mind.
1.According to the passage, the author believes that
the sixth sense is ________.
A.in existence B.imaginative C.not real D.impossible
2.ESP lets people know _________.
A.about events
before they happen
B.about events
after they happen
C.about events
that are happening some distance away
D.A and C
3.By studying ESP, scientists may get to ________.
A.learn how
people tell lies
B.know more
about human dreams
C.know more
about human mind
D.learn how
strange things happen
4.In the last paragraph the underlined word
“coincidences” probably means _______.
A.things that
may not happen
B.things that
happen in a dream
C.things that
must happen
D.things that
happen by accident