Question

(Reuters) - The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is likely to drag on for years, a senior U.S. defense official told Reuters on Friday, as an underwater search for any trace of the plane off west Australia appeared to have failed.

The official, speaking under condition of anonymity（匿名）because he was not authorized to comment on the search effort, said two weeks of searching the Indian Ocean floor with a U.S. Navy had turned up no wreckage（残骸）．

He said the search for the plane, which disappeared on March 8 with 239 people on board, would now enter a much harder phase of searching broader areas of the ocean near where the plane is believed to have crashed.

”We went all-in on this small area and didn't find anything. Now you’re got to go back to the big area," the official said. "And now you're talking years.”

On Friday, the undersea drone. Bluefin-21 is expected to finish what may be the last of its 16-hour trips to depths of more than 4.5 km (2. 8 miles) searching a 10 square km (6.2 square mile) area of the seabed about 2,000 miles northwest of Perth.

Authorities had identified the area as their strongest lead in determining the plane's final resting place after detecting what they suspected was a signal from the plane's black box recorder on April 4.

But the U. S. official said Malaysia would have to decide how to continue the search, including whether to bring in more underwater drones, even with the understanding that the search could continue for years without a refined (精确的) search area.

1.What does the passage mainly talk about? ( no more than, 12 words)

2.Where did the recent search for the plane take place? ( no more than, 3 words)

3.Why didn't the official want others to know his name? ( no more than 11 words)

4.What led people to determine the plane's final resting place? ( no more than 9 words)

5.According to the passage, which country is in charge of the arrangement of the search? (1 word)

Answer 1

1. The search for missing plane is likely to drag on for years.

2. Off west Australia.

3. Because he was not authorized to comment on the search effort.

4. A signal from the plane’s black box recorder.

5. Malaysia.

【解析】

1.小题1】根据第一段 (Reuters) - The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is likely to drag on for years, a senior U.S. defense official told Reuters on Friday 点明了主题：路透社报道了对马来西亚MH370航班的搜救工作可能会拖延好几年。The search for missing plane is likely to drag on for years.

2.小题2】 .根据第一段as an underwater search for any trace of the plane off west Australia appeared to have failed。得知最近的搜索工作是在澳大利亚西部以外进行的。 Off west Australia.

3.】 根据The official, speaking under condition of anonymity（匿名）because he was not authorized to comment on the search effort，得知这位官员在匿名的情况下发言是因为他还没有被授权对搜索工作发表评论。 Because he was not authorized to comment on the search effort.

4.根据Authorities had identified the area as their strongest lead in determining the plane's final resting place after detecting what they suspected was a signal from the plane's black box recorder on April 4.权威机构已经在探测到黑匣子发出的信号后确定了飞机失事的方位。A signal from the plane’s black box recorder.

5.小题5】根据最后一段But the U. S. official said Malaysia would have to decide how to continue the search, including whether to bring in more underwater drones,. 马来西亚负责搜救工作。Malaysia.

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