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[研究生入学考试题库]考研英语(二)模拟题7 Section Ⅰ Use of English Directions:  Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET.  It sounds like a real-life version of Lost: a 272-ton Boeing 777 1 from Kuala Lumpur International Airport and 2 less than an hour into a flight to Beijing, disappearing from air-craft radar screens and triggering a massive search 3 high-tech warships, nimble supersonic jets, all-seeing satellites—the combined technological resources of 26 countries. Days 4 without a trace of the airliner. Big Brother looks high and low—and finds 5 .  The world lost 6 with Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in the early hours of March 8, somewhere in no-mans-sky 7 Malaysia and Vietnam. Every day that followed brought new theories of what might have happened as dark turned to dawn. Was the plane hijacked to some remote landing strip and, if so, where are the passengers? 8 had the jet malfunctioned and 9 into the ocean-and if so, where was the debris? As search team looked for answers to these questions, the millions of people worldwide who were 10 for updates about MH370 were left wondering how, in 2014, technology could come up so short, 11 a 209-ft. (64m) airliner carrying 239 people to 12 for the longest period of time in modern commercial aviation history.  The 13 story of MH370 doesnt fit into the narrative of our omniscient (无所不知的) era. The worlds intelligence agencies can watch and 14 to millions of us as we go about our lives. 15 we nonspies have plenty of tracking technology at our disposal. Pull up a web browser and with a few keystrokes we can 16 our lost iPhones, track satellites as they circle the earth, use Google Maps to explore far-off lands. How, then, with our 17 infrastructure of bits and bytes, did we fail to 18 a jumbo jet?  The ans