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全真模拟试题二(Ⅰ) SECTION 1: LISTENING TEST Part A: Spot Dictation Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear a passage and read the same passage with blanks in it. Fill in each of the blanks with the word or words you have heard an the tape. Write your answer in the corresponding space in you ANSWER BOOKLET. Remember you will hear the passage ONLY ONCE. On December 5, 1945, at 2:00 pm, a group of (1) took off in perfect weather for a practice flight over the Atlantic Ocean. Two hours later, (2) , Lt. Charles Taylor, radioed back that he was completely lost. He said that the planes compasses were going crazy, and that he could see no land. And then his radio died. The navy sent another plane to (3) , but it disappeared too. By the end of that day, (4) had disappeared in a mysterious area known as the Bermuda Triangle. This is just one of many frightening stories that people love to tell about the Bermuda Triangle, which is located on the West Atlantic Ocean between Miami, Florida, the island of Bermuda, and the island of Puerto Rico. Over the years, more than a hundred planes, ships, and small boats (5) have been lost in this area. Many of them disappeared in the middle of the day, in perfect weather. And in most cases, to make the stories even more mysterious, The United States Navy does not believe that there is anything mysterious about the Triangle. It says that all the accidents are the result of the (8) . These features include the Gulf Stream current, which flows rapidly through the area, (9) , and changeable, often violent, weather patterns. In addition, the Triangle (10) that causes compasses in this area to point to true north instead of magnetic north. If the navigator of a ship or plane forgets this fact, he can easily get lost in the Bermuda Triangle. The navy believes that this is probably what happened to the five navy airplanes that I mentioned at the beginning of this talk. In conclusion, the navy believes