Unit-6-A-World-of-Mystery新编大学英语第二版第一册课文翻译.docxVIP

— PAGE \* Arabic 1 — Unit-6-A-World-of-Mystery新编大学英语第二版第一册课文翻译 Unit 6 A World of Mystery  The Bermuda Triangle  [1] On 5th December 1945, Flight 19, which consisted of five US Navy planes, took off from Fort Lauderdale, Florida in fine weather. There was a total of fourteen men on board the planes. The planes were in good condition; they had the best equipment on board including compasses and radios, and they also carried life rafts. The planes could float on water for ninety seconds. One and a half hours after the take-off, a radio message from one of the planes was heard at the control tower at Fort Lauderdale.  [2] I dont know where we are.  [3] After that the planes could no longer speak to the control tower, but they could speak to and hear each other, and the control tower could hear them.  [4] The magnetic compass is going crazy.  [5] Were completely lost.  [6] No other messages were heard after that. Nobody else heard from the planes or saw them again. Three hundred planes and many boats searched the area, but not one trace of Flight 19 was found. Then one of the planes that was sent to look for them also disappeared completely.  [7] These planes had disappeared in a very mysterious part of the world in the western Atlantic Ocean where lots of strange events have taken place. The mystery started long before 1945, and since that year many other ships and planes have also disappeared in this area. It is called the Bermuda Triangle. It is a large, triangular area of the ocean with the island of Bermuda at its northern tip.  [8] Planes and ships disappear in other parts of the world, but there are more disappearances in the Triangle than in other areas. For years now scientists and others have been puzzled by this mystery. There have been many attempts to explain why people, planes and ships disappear in such high numbers here .  [9] One writer, John Spencer, believes that the ships and planes have been carried off