Passage D
        Some say that sailors are superstitious group. Long nights of watching starspredispose them to a belief in astrology. Long periods of isolation lead them tobelieve in psychic phenomena that others would laugh at. This may explain sailors’frequent reports of seeing phantom ships. From the Gulf of Mexico, across theAtlantic, and to the South China Sea, sailors often claim that such vessels haunt theseas. One of the most famous stories of ghost ships is the Flying Dutchman, whichsailed in 1680 from Amsterdam to Dutch East India under Hendrick Vanderdecken.When the captain ignored the danger warnings of a storm, his ship was smashed andthe crew was lost. According to legend, his arrogance invoked the wrath of God, whocondemned the lost crew-members to battle the waters off the Cape of Good Hopefor eternity. Since then, there have been repeated sightings of the Flying Dutchman,one as recent as 1939. Many sightings of phantom ships occur in areas where vesselsare known to have sunk. Sailors can never divine when or where they will nextencounter a phantom ship. Rather, most of their sightings occur randomly, only laterto bring forth information of a former sea horror. Some say that ghosts aboard aphantom ship are trying to use living sailors as their intermediaries. Still, others thinkthat the existence of phantom ships is merely a self-perpetuating myth for boredsailors who are prone to too much idle meditation about the meaning of life anddeath on high seas.
 Questions 11-13
【題組】11. How would the author explain phantom ships?
(A) Their appearance is tied to the stars.
(B) Sailors at sea have little to do.
(C) Fog and high waves can distort one’s vision.
(D) Shipwreck remains haunt oceans around the world.