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On 5th December, 1945, five bombers from a United States Naval Air Station left Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on a routine training
On 5th December, 1945, five bombers from a United States Naval Air Station left Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on a routine training
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On 5th December, 1945, five bombers from a United States Naval Air Station left Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on a routine training flight over the Atlantic Ocean, east of Florida. A short time later the base received radio messages from the bombers (Flight 19) saying that they were lost. Then radio contact was broken. The flight didn’t return, and the planes that were sent to look for the bombers also fail to return. A massive search operation was mounted, but no trace of the missing planes or their pilots was found. They had simply and inexplicably disappeared.
This event was sufficient to confirm in many people’s minds that the so-called "Devil’s Triangle", or "Bermuda Triangle"—a section of the North Atlantic bounded roughly by Bermuda, Florida and Puerto Rico—really was haunted, and in some mysterious way was responsible for the loss of ships and planes. In all, in this area (3,900,000 square kilometres) of open sea, more than 50 ships and 20 planes have mysteriously disappeared. These include the U.S. Navy ship Cyclops in 1918 and the merchant vessel Marine Sulphur Queen in 1963. In the same year two U.S. Air Force KC 135 planes also disappeared without trace. In other words, it is not only small boats and planes that have vanished in the area, but the most modern and best equipped too.
Perhaps the most dramatic shipping loss in the area was the U.S. Navy nuclear submarine Scorpion. This vessel, like others before her, disappeared without explanation in May, 1968. Some months later she was found on the bottom of the ocean, but the reason for her loss has not been properly explained.
Many theories about the area have been proposed, and whole books have been written on the subject. It has been suggested, for example, that the disappearances are caused by unknown magnetic forces from outer space or from the bottom of the sea. There is also a theory about underwater volcanic action that affects shipping, and another that suggests the lost continent of Atlantis, which according to legend lies somewhere beneath the Atlantic, is involved.
However, others state that it is more likely that there is nothing special about this imaginary triangle of water, and that it is a product of Sensational Journalism. After all, ships, Boats and planes are lost at sea in all parts of the world due to weather, mechanical failure or human error, and several of the losses are mysterious. The Marie Celeste, an American cargo boat, for example, was found in 1872 off the coast of Portugal in perfect order but with no crew on board. Their disappearances has never been explained. Did some of them mutiny and then escape? Were all the crew killed by some unknown agent? Did they try to escape from some danger or other? We shall probably never know.
However, regardless of the theories which exist about the "Bermuda Triangle", ships, boats and planes continue to travel daily through the area with great frequency, and it has not been proved that a higher percentage of accidents and losses occur in this section of the North Atlantic than in other areas of the world’s oceans.
选项
A、it is called "Devil’s Triangle"
B、a lot of books have been written about the area
C、the lost continent of Atlantic lies somewhere in that area
D、there have been many unexplainable disappearances of ships and aircraft in that area
答案
D
解析
细节题。该题答案可从第一段末句和第二段第二句找出。"百慕大三角之所以神秘是因为接二连三地有飞机和船只在那个地区莫名其妙地消失"。因此答案为D。
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