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2017年职称英语综合类B级完形填空模拟题 　　Animals “Sixth Sense” A tsunami was triggered by an earthquake in the Indian Ocean in December,004. It killed tens of thousands of people in Asia and East Africa. Wild animals,____1____, seem to have escaped that terrible tsunami. This phenomenon adds weight to notions that1 they possess a “sixth sense” for____2____, experts said. Sri Lankan wildlife officials have said the giant waves that killed over4,000 people along the Indian Ocean island’s coast clearly____3____ wild beasts, with no dead animals found. “No elephants are dead, not____4____ a dead rabbit. I think animals can____5____ disaster. They have a sixth sense. They know when things are happening,” H. D. Ratnayake, deputy director of Sri Lanka’s Wildlife Department, said about one month after the tsunami attack. The____6____washed floodwaters up to miles inland at Yala National Park in the ravaged southeast, Sri Lanka’s biggest wildlife____7____ and home to hundreds of wild elephants and several leopards. “There has been a lot of____8____ evidence about dogs barking or birds migrating before volcanic eruptions or earthquakes. But it has not been proven,” said Matthew van Lierop, an animal behavior____9____ at Johannesburg Zoo. “There have been no____10____ studies because you can’t really test it in a lab or field setting2，” he told Reuters. Other authorities concurred with this____11____ · “Wildlife seem to be able to pick up certain____12____ especially birds ... there are many reports of birds detecting impending disasters/’ said Clive Walker, who has written several books on African wildlife. Animals____13____ rely on the known senses such as smell or hearing to avoid danger such as predators. The notion of an animal “sixth sense” — or____14____ other mythical power — is an enduring onewhich the evidence on Sri Larika’s ravaged coast is likely to add to. The Romans saw owls____15____ omens of impending disaster and many ancient cultures view