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1.According to the passage...

Legend of the Bermuda Triangle

The area referred to as the Bermuda Triangle, or Devil's Triangle, covers about 500,000 square miles of ocean off the southeastern tip of Florida.

When Christopher Columbus sailed through the area on his first voyage to the New World, he reported that a great flame of fire (probably a meteor) crashed into the sea one night and that a strange light appeared in the distance a few weeks later. He also wrote about erratic compass readings – perhaps the Bermuda Triangle was one of the few places on Earth where true north and magnetic north lined up.

William Shakespeare's play "The Tempest," which some scholars claim was based on a real-life Bermu-da shipwreck, may have enhanced the area's aura of mystery. Nonetheless, reports of unexplained disappearances did not really capture the public's attention until the 20th century. An especially infamous tragedy occurred on March 1918 when the USS Cyclops, a 542-foot-long Navy cargo ship with over 300 men and 10,000 tons of manganese ore onboard, sank somewhere between Barbados and the Chesapeake Bay. The Cyclops never sent out an SOS distress call despite being equipped to do so, and an extensive search found no wreckage. "Only God and the sea know what happened to the great ship," U.S. Presi-dent Woodrow Wilson later said. In 1941 two of the Cyclops’ sister ships similarly vanished without a trace along nearly the same route.

A squadron allegedly began forming in which ves-sels traversing the Bermuda Triangle would either disappear or be found abandoned. Then in Decem-ber 1945, five Navy bombers carrying 14 men took off from a Fort Lauderdale, Florida, airfield in order to conduct practice bombing runs over some nearby shoals. But with his compasses apparently malfunc-tioning, the leader of the mission, known as Flight 19, was severely lost. All five planes flew aimlessly until they ran low on fuel and were forced to ditch at sea. That same day, a rescue plane and its 13-man crew also disappeared. After a massive, weekslong search failed to turn up any evidence, the official Navy report declared that it was "as if they had flown to Mars." So the mystery remains unsolved.

2.What is NOT TRUE according to the text?

Legend of the Bermuda Triangle

The area referred to as the Bermuda Triangle, or Devil's Triangle, covers about 500,000 square miles of ocean off the southeastern tip of Florida.

When Christopher Columbus sailed through the area on his first voyage to the New World, he reported that a great flame of fire (probably a meteor) crashed into the sea one night and that a strange light appeared in the distance a few weeks later. He also wrote about erratic compass readings – perhaps the Bermuda Triangle was one of the few places on Earth where true north and magnetic north lined up.

William Shakespeare's play "The Tempest," which some scholars claim was based on a real-life Bermu-da shipwreck, may have enhanced the area's aura of mystery. Nonetheless, reports of unexplained disappearances did not really capture the public's attention until the 20th century. An especially infamous tragedy occurred on March 1918 when the USS Cyclops, a 542-foot-long Navy cargo ship with over 300 men and 10,000 tons of manganese ore onboard, sank somewhere between Barbados and the Chesapeake Bay. The Cyclops never sent out an SOS distress call despite being equipped to do so, and an extensive search found no wreckage. "Only God and the sea know what happened to the great ship," U.S. Presi-dent Woodrow Wilson later said. In 1941 two of the Cyclops’ sister ships similarly vanished without a trace along nearly the same route.

A squadron allegedly began forming in which ves-sels traversing the Bermuda Triangle would either disappear or be found abandoned. Then in Decem-ber 1945, five Navy bombers carrying 14 men took off from a Fort Lauderdale, Florida, airfield in order to conduct practice bombing runs over some nearby shoals. But with his compasses apparently malfunc-tioning, the leader of the mission, known as Flight 19, was severely lost. All five planes flew aimlessly until they ran low on fuel and were forced to ditch at sea. That same day, a rescue plane and its 13-man crew also disappeared. After a massive, weekslong search failed to turn up any evidence, the official Navy report declared that it was "as if they had flown to Mars." So the mystery remains unsolved.

3.All of the following is mentioned in the passage EXCEPT

Legend of the Bermuda Triangle

The area referred to as the Bermuda Triangle, or Devil's Triangle, covers about 500,000 square miles of ocean off the southeastern tip of Florida.

When Christopher Columbus sailed through the area on his first voyage to the New World, he reported that a great flame of fire (probably a meteor) crashed into the sea one night and that a strange light appeared in the distance a few weeks later. He also wrote about erratic compass readings – perhaps the Bermuda Triangle was one of the few places on Earth where true north and magnetic north lined up.

William Shakespeare's play "The Tempest," which some scholars claim was based on a real-life Bermu-da shipwreck, may have enhanced the area's aura of mystery. Nonetheless, reports of unexplained disappearances did not really capture the public's attention until the 20th century. An especially infamous tragedy occurred on March 1918 when the USS Cyclops, a 542-foot-long Navy cargo ship with over 300 men and 10,000 tons of manganese ore onboard, sank somewhere between Barbados and the Chesapeake Bay. The Cyclops never sent out an SOS distress call despite being equipped to do so, and an extensive search found no wreckage. "Only God and the sea know what happened to the great ship," U.S. Presi-dent Woodrow Wilson later said. In 1941 two of the Cyclops’ sister ships similarly vanished without a trace along nearly the same route.

A squadron allegedly began forming in which ves-sels traversing the Bermuda Triangle would either disappear or be found abandoned. Then in Decem-ber 1945, five Navy bombers carrying 14 men took off from a Fort Lauderdale, Florida, airfield in order to conduct practice bombing runs over some nearby shoals. But with his compasses apparently malfunc-tioning, the leader of the mission, known as Flight 19, was severely lost. All five planes flew aimlessly until they ran low on fuel and were forced to ditch at sea. That same day, a rescue plane and its 13-man crew also disappeared. After a massive, weekslong search failed to turn up any evidence, the official Navy report declared that it was "as if they had flown to Mars." So the mystery remains unsolved.

4.The underlined word "traversing" in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to

Legend of the Bermuda Triangle

The area referred to as the Bermuda Triangle, or Devil's Triangle, covers about 500,000 square miles of ocean off the southeastern tip of Florida.

When Christopher Columbus sailed through the area on his first voyage to the New World, he reported that a great flame of fire (probably a meteor) crashed into the sea one night and that a strange light appeared in the distance a few weeks later. He also wrote about erratic compass readings – perhaps the Bermuda Triangle was one of the few places on Earth where true north and magnetic north lined up.

William Shakespeare's play "The Tempest," which some scholars claim was based on a real-life Bermu-da shipwreck, may have enhanced the area's aura of mystery. Nonetheless, reports of unexplained disappearances did not really capture the public's attention until the 20th century. An especially infamous tragedy occurred on March 1918 when the USS Cyclops, a 542-foot-long Navy cargo ship with over 300 men and 10,000 tons of manganese ore onboard, sank somewhere between Barbados and the Chesapeake Bay. The Cyclops never sent out an SOS distress call despite being equipped to do so, and an extensive search found no wreckage. "Only God and the sea know what happened to the great ship," U.S. Presi-dent Woodrow Wilson later said. In 1941 two of the Cyclops’ sister ships similarly vanished without a trace along nearly the same route.

A squadron allegedly began forming in which ves-sels traversing the Bermuda Triangle would either disappear or be found abandoned. Then in Decem-ber 1945, five Navy bombers carrying 14 men took off from a Fort Lauderdale, Florida, airfield in order to conduct practice bombing runs over some nearby shoals. But with his compasses apparently malfunc-tioning, the leader of the mission, known as Flight 19, was severely lost. All five planes flew aimlessly until they ran low on fuel and were forced to ditch at sea. That same day, a rescue plane and its 13-man crew also disappeared. After a massive, weekslong search failed to turn up any evidence, the official Navy report declared that it was "as if they had flown to Mars." So the mystery remains unsolved.

5.It is stated in the passage that......

Legend of the Bermuda Triangle

The area referred to as the Bermuda Triangle, or Devil's Triangle, covers about 500,000 square miles of ocean off the southeastern tip of Florida.

When Christopher Columbus sailed through the area on his first voyage to the New World, he reported that a great flame of fire (probably a meteor) crashed into the sea one night and that a strange light appeared in the distance a few weeks later. He also wrote about erratic compass readings – perhaps the Bermuda Triangle was one of the few places on Earth where true north and magnetic north lined up.

William Shakespeare's play "The Tempest," which some scholars claim was based on a real-life Bermu-da shipwreck, may have enhanced the area's aura of mystery. Nonetheless, reports of unexplained disappearances did not really capture the public's attention until the 20th century. An especially infamous tragedy occurred on March 1918 when the USS Cyclops, a 542-foot-long Navy cargo ship with over 300 men and 10,000 tons of manganese ore onboard, sank somewhere between Barbados and the Chesapeake Bay. The Cyclops never sent out an SOS distress call despite being equipped to do so, and an extensive search found no wreckage. "Only God and the sea know what happened to the great ship," U.S. Presi-dent Woodrow Wilson later said. In 1941 two of the Cyclops’ sister ships similarly vanished without a trace along nearly the same route.

A squadron allegedly began forming in which ves-sels traversing the Bermuda Triangle would either disappear or be found abandoned. Then in Decem-ber 1945, five Navy bombers carrying 14 men took off from a Fort Lauderdale, Florida, airfield in order to conduct practice bombing runs over some nearby shoals. But with his compasses apparently malfunc-tioning, the leader of the mission, known as Flight 19, was severely lost. All five planes flew aimlessly until they ran low on fuel and were forced to ditch at sea. That same day, a rescue plane and its 13-man crew also disappeared. After a massive, weekslong search failed to turn up any evidence, the official Navy report declared that it was "as if they had flown to Mars." So the mystery remains unsolved.

The Bermuda Triangle covers an area smaller than 500,000 square miles of the ocean.

Christopher Columbus was the first person to report strange compass readings in the area.

The disappearance of the USS Cyclops immediately attracted major public attention to the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle

Flight 19 was a rescue seaplane sent to find the wreckage of the USS Cyclops.

The official Navy report on Flight 19 concluded that the planes ran out of fuel after getting lost due to compass malfunction.

Describe how the disappearances of the USS Cyclops (1918) and Flight 19 (1945) contributed to the growth of the Bermuda Triangle legend in the public eye. In your description, mention the key facts about each event that made the mystery so compelling.

Legend of the Bermuda Triangle

The area referred to as the Bermuda Triangle, or Devil's Triangle, covers about 500,000 square miles of ocean off the southeastern tip of Florida.

When Christopher Columbus sailed through the area on his first voyage to the New World, he reported that a great flame of fire (probably a meteor) crashed into the sea one night and that a strange light appeared in the distance a few weeks later. He also wrote about erratic compass readings – perhaps the Bermuda Triangle was one of the few places on Earth where true north and magnetic north lined up.

William Shakespeare's play "The Tempest," which some scholars claim was based on a real-life Bermu-da shipwreck, may have enhanced the area's aura of mystery. Nonetheless, reports of unexplained disappearances did not really capture the public's attention until the 20th century. An especially infamous tragedy occurred on March 1918 when the USS Cyclops, a 542-foot-long Navy cargo ship with over 300 men and 10,000 tons of manganese ore onboard, sank somewhere between Barbados and the Chesapeake Bay. The Cyclops never sent out an SOS distress call despite being equipped to do so, and an extensive search found no wreckage. "Only God and the sea know what happened to the great ship," U.S. Presi-dent Woodrow Wilson later said. In 1941 two of the Cyclops’ sister ships similarly vanished without a trace along nearly the same route.

A squadron allegedly began forming in which ves-sels traversing the Bermuda Triangle would either disappear or be found abandoned. Then in Decem-ber 1945, five Navy bombers carrying 14 men took off from a Fort Lauderdale, Florida, airfield in order to conduct practice bombing runs over some nearby shoals. But with his compasses apparently malfunc-tioning, the leader of the mission, known as Flight 19, was severely lost. All five planes flew aimlessly until they ran low on fuel and were forced to ditch at sea. That same day, a rescue plane and its 13-man crew also disappeared. After a massive, weekslong search failed to turn up any evidence, the official Navy report declared that it was "as if they had flown to Mars." So the mystery remains unsolved.

The text mentions two ancient references to the area—from Columbus and Shakespeare—that established the area's mystique. Explain why, according to the text, these older accounts failed to capture the public's full attention until the more dramatic events of the 20th century.

Legend of the Bermuda Triangle

The area referred to as the Bermuda Triangle, or Devil's Triangle, covers about 500,000 square miles of ocean off the southeastern tip of Florida.

When Christopher Columbus sailed through the area on his first voyage to the New World, he reported that a great flame of fire (probably a meteor) crashed into the sea one night and that a strange light appeared in the distance a few weeks later. He also wrote about erratic compass readings – perhaps the Bermuda Triangle was one of the few places on Earth where true north and magnetic north lined up.

William Shakespeare's play "The Tempest," which some scholars claim was based on a real-life Bermu-da shipwreck, may have enhanced the area's aura of mystery. Nonetheless, reports of unexplained disappearances did not really capture the public's attention until the 20th century. An especially infamous tragedy occurred on March 1918 when the USS Cyclops, a 542-foot-long Navy cargo ship with over 300 men and 10,000 tons of manganese ore onboard, sank somewhere between Barbados and the Chesapeake Bay. The Cyclops never sent out an SOS distress call despite being equipped to do so, and an extensive search found no wreckage. "Only God and the sea know what happened to the great ship," U.S. Presi-dent Woodrow Wilson later said. In 1941 two of the Cyclops’ sister ships similarly vanished without a trace along nearly the same route.

A squadron allegedly began forming in which ves-sels traversing the Bermuda Triangle would either disappear or be found abandoned. Then in Decem-ber 1945, five Navy bombers carrying 14 men took off from a Fort Lauderdale, Florida, airfield in order to conduct practice bombing runs over some nearby shoals. But with his compasses apparently malfunc-tioning, the leader of the mission, known as Flight 19, was severely lost. All five planes flew aimlessly until they ran low on fuel and were forced to ditch at sea. That same day, a rescue plane and its 13-man crew also disappeared. After a massive, weekslong search failed to turn up any evidence, the official Navy report declared that it was "as if they had flown to Mars." So the mystery remains unsolved.