Question 5 is based on the conversation you have just heard.

Conversation Two

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M: (5) [Do you think dreams have special meanings?]

W: (5) [No, I don’t think they do.]

M: (5) [I don’t either, but some people do.] I would say people who believe that dreams have special meanings are superstitious, especially nowadays. In the past, during the times of ancient Egypt, Greece or China, people used to believe that dreams could foresee the future. But today, with all the scientific knowledge that we have, I think it’s much harder to believe in these sorts of things.

W: My grandmother is superstitious, and she thinks dreams can predict the future. (6) [Once, she dreamed that the flight she was due to take the following day crashed. Can you guess what she did? She didn’t take that flight.] She didn’t even bother to go to the airport the following day. Instead, she took the same flight, but a week later, and everything was fine, of course. No plane ever crashed.

M: How funny! Did you know that flying is actually safer than any other mode of transport? It’s been statistically proven. People can be so irrational sometimes.

W: Yes, absolutely. But even if we think they are ridiculous, (7) [emotions can be just as powerful as rational thinking.]

M: Exactly. People do all sorts of crazy things because of their irrational feelings. But in fact, some psychologists believe that our dreams are the result of our emotions and memories from that day. (8) [I think it was Sigmund Freud who said that] children’s dreams were usually simple representations of their wishes—things they wished would happen. (8) [But in adults, dreams are much more complicated reflections of their more sophisticated sentiments.]

W: Isn’t it interesting how psychologists try to understand using the scientific method something as bizarre as dreams? Psychology is like the rational study of irrational feelings.

5. What do both speakers think of dreams?

解析：B。题目中问到两位讲话者对于梦的看法。在录音开头，对于梦有特殊含义这个观点，两位讲话者都表示不认同，因此B项为正确答案。

错项排除：A项“梦可以预测未来”是在古埃及、古希腊和古代中国时期出现的看法，后面提到女士的祖母也持这样的看法，但并不是两位讲话者的观点，而且两人觉得这种观点很迷信，故A项错误。C项在录音中未提及，故排除。录音后面提到，儿童的梦通常代表愿望，成人的梦则要复杂得多，D项与此内容相对应，但这是弗洛伊德的观点，并不是讲话者的观点，故排除D项。