A. Read the text below and fill each blank with only one word. (2.0 pts)

    Dreams have always fascinated human beings. The idea that dreams provide us with useful information about our lives goes (77)____________  thousands of years. For the greater part of human history it was taken for granted that the sleeping mind was in touch with the supernatural world and dreams were to be interpreted as messages with prophetic or healing functions. In the nineteenth century, (78)____________  was a widespread reaction (79)____________ this way of thinking and dreams were widely dismissed as being very little more than jumbles of fantasy (80)____________ about by memories of the previous day.

    It was not (81)____________ the end of the nineteenth century (82) ____________ an Austrian neurologist, Sigmund Freud, pointed out that people who have similar experiences during the day, and who are then subjected (83) ____________the same stimuli when they are asleep, produce different dreams. Freud went on to develop a theory of the dream process which (84) ____________ enable him to interpret dreams as clues to the conflicts taking place within the personality. It is by no (85) ____________an exaggeration to say that (86) ____________ any other theories have had so great an influence on subsequent thought.