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The Bermuda Triangle

At 2 pm on 5 December 1945, five US bombers took off from Fort Lauderdale in the USA for a training flight in perfect weather. Shortly afterwards, the pilots radioed that their flight instruments were all malfunctioning. Two hours after take-off, all contact with the planes was lost. A reconnaissance plane was immediately dispatched to search for the missing planes. Within 20 minutes, radio contact with it had also been lost. No trace of any of the planes was ever found. In all, six planes and 27 men had vanished into thin air.

The disappearance of the six planes was far from being the first mysterious incident in the area: for years, navigational problems and strange magnetic forces had been reported. The disappearance was not even the greatest disaster within the triangle. The Cyclops, a 19,000-ton US ship was sailing from Barbados to Norfolk, Virginia. In March 1918, it vanished with its crew of 309 from the surface of he ocean without making a distress call and without the slightest wreckage ever being found.

The losses of boats and planes in that area defy explanation. The disasters are the origin of a new phrase in the English language – the Bermuda Triangle and this phrase has entered legend. The Bermuda Triangle has been called the Devils' Triangle, the Triangle of Death, the Graveyard of the Atlantic. It has swallowed up 140 ships and planes and more than 1,000 people. Today many airmen and sailors are still afraid of that area of the Atlantic Ocean.

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1. Where is Fort Lauderdale located? In the U.S.A.In IrelandIn Great BritainI don't know

2. What disappeared on 5 December 1945? Several US shipsSeveral US trainsSeveral US planesI don't know

3. It was the first incident in this area. False?TrueI don't know

4. What was "the Cyclops"? a big shipa big monsteran alienI don't know

5. When did it disappear? In nineteen thirtyIn nineteen eighteenIn nineteen twentyI don't know

6. The ship was found in 1985. ?FalseTrueI don't know

7. What is the other name of the Bermuda Triangle? The Devil's AreaThe Sea GraveyardThe Triangle of DeathI don't know

8. The Bermuda Triangle is located in the Atlantic Ocean. ?FalseTrueI don't know

9. How many people have disappeared? about one hundredabout one thousandabout one millionI don't know

10. This legend is over. Nobody believes it anymore. True?FalseI don't know