綜合類(lèi)：完形填空Where Did All the Ships Go

　　The Bermuda Triangle is one__1__the greatest mysteries of the sea.In this triangular area between Florida，Puerto Rico and Bermuda in Atlantic，ships and airplanes __2__to disappear more often than in__3__parts of the ocean.And they do so__4__ leaving any sign of all accident or any dead bodies.

　　It is__5__that Christopher Columbus was the first person to record strange

　　happenings in the area.His compass stopped working，a flame came down from the sky，and a wave 1 00 to 200.feet.high carried his ship about a mile away.

　　The most famous disappearance in the Bermuda Triangle was the US Naval Air Flight 19.__6__December 5，1945，five bomber planes carrying 14 men.__7__ on a training mission’from the Florida coast.Later that day， all communications with Flight 1 9 were lost.They just disappeared without a trace.

　　The next morning，242 planes and 19 ships took part in the largest air-sea search in history. But they found nothing.

　　Some people blame the disappearances__8__supernatural forces.It is suggested the

　　__9__ships and planes were either transported to other times and places，kidnapped

　　by aliens__10__ attacked by sea creatures.

　　There are__11__natural explanations，though.The US Navy says that the Bermuda triangle is one of two places on earth __12__a magnetic compass points towards true north__13__magnetic north.__14__planes and ships can lose their way if they don’t make adjustments.

　　The area also has changing weather and is known__15__its high waves.Storms

　　Can turn up suddenly and destroy a plane or ship.Fast currents could then sweep away any trace of an accident.

　　Bermuda Triangle 百慕大三角區(qū)

　　Florida 佛羅里達(dá)，美國(guó)的一個(gè)州

　　Pueto Rico 波多利加]

　　Compass n.羅盤(pán)，指南針

　　Supernatural adj.超自然的

　　Kidnap v.綁架

　　Alien n.外星人

　　Magnetic adj.有磁性的

　　Trace n.痕跡