|Question 6Verbal

Source Texts

Text
Curious about how people visually perceive objects in their dreams, Stephen LaBerge and team recruited lucid dreamers—people aware that they’re dreaming as it’s happening—for a research study. These participants were reliably able to signal when they had entered a dream state; the team then observed participants’ eye movements as they slept. The smoothness with which participants’ eyes tracked objects in their dreams closely matched how sighted people who are awake visually track objects around them, suggesting to the team that the brain perceives dream objects as the product of something other than pure imagination.
Which choice best states the function of the underlined portion in the text as a whole?
To illustrate an important real-world implication of LaBerge and team’s main finding
A
To identify a comparable circumstance that helps justify LaBerge and team’s conclusion
B
To show the unexpected result that led LaBerge and team to change the focus of their study
C
To offer key evidence that undermines LaBerge and team’s initial hypothesis
D