70. The author has a
pleasure to ______.
A. make a computer game
B. to read books C. to listen to good music D. ask himself questions
E
"Calling tower," the pilot's voice
crackled. "This is an emergency!" The radio operator in the control
tower looked at his watch. It was 3:15 p.m. Lieutenant Charles Taylor and five
Navy bombers were in trouble. "We are off course. We cannot see
land…repeat…we cannot see land."
The control tower grew silent. The operator
garbed (戴上) his microphone. "What is your position? We are not
sure of our position," Lieutenant Taylor replied. "We seem to be
lost." Taylor had over 2,500 hours of flight time. What was happening?
The tower called back: "Assume bearing(方位)
due west." "We don't know which way is west," Taylor replied.
"Everything is wrong…strange… We cannot be sure of any direction…Even the
ocean looks odd…" The radio operator told Taylor to fly north "with
the sun on the left" until he reached a Naval Air Station. Anyone could find
the sun, especially a good pilot like Taylor. Soon the radio crackled again.
"We have just passed over a small island," said the pilot. "No
other land in sight." That was the last message Flight 19 sent to the
radio tower. Five Navy bombers were lost. They had left the Naval Air Station
for a routine training flight at 2:00 p.m., December 5, 1945. Each plane had
enough fuel to fly more than a thousand miles. The weather was sunny and mild.
Pilots from other flights had not seen anything strange there. So what
happened? How could five Navy bombers and their crews just disappear?
The search for the five bombers covered 380,000
square miles of land and sea. Hundreds of boats and planes searched large areas
of the Atlantic, the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, the mainland of Florida,
and many neighboring islands. Some of the boats were aircraft carriers,
destroyers, and submarines. They searched the area for weeks. Nothing was ever
found. No life rafts. No wreckage. Not even an oil slick(浮油).
Oil from the engines should float on the surface, even if everything else had sunk.