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第四篇
Where Have All Our Visitors Gone?
Sixty years ago, a man named Kenneth Arnold saw something that people are still1 today -something that changed popular culture for ever.
Flying his plane over mountains in the US state of Washington, he saw a line of strange objects, either crescent -shaped or disc-like, flying2 the motion of a saucer skimming on water.
The media soon picked up on the story - the Flying Saucers were here1! Was the earthbeing 3_ by creatures from another planet? Soon, so many sightings were made thatthe US military began to 4It called these strange objects UFO2s UnidentifiedFlying Objects, and that is how they are 5 today.
Military investigations1 found no evidence of visitors from outer space. But that did not sTOPthe true6 The military were7up, they said. Or __ 8itwas because the travelers from space were of such superior intelligence that they could hidefrom the most sophisticated military analysts2.
People have always seen strange lights in the sky. In the past these were explained in9 ways. In a world where religion was less influential3 and science fiction waspopular, signs from god were replaced by visitors from other __ 10.
The date of the first UFO signings was also significant. In 1947, World War II had justended and the 11 war was just beginning. Humanity seemed locked in endlessconflicts. Like generations before them, people looked 12 the skies for help. But instead of seeking God, they looked for help from super-intelligent aliens with __ 13technology. Belief in UFOs became the first religion of science.
However, even people who believe in UFOs are not quite sure why they visit the earth. Theuniverse is a big place and it is __ 14__ to assume that there is life somewhere out there.It is possible that aliens have worked out how to travel through space. Yet some people reportthat they have been taken by aliens and have had experiments __ 15 on them. Whywould anyone travel across half the universe to conduct medical experiments on people living in small towns in the United States?
词语：
crescent n. 月牙，月牙形物
saucer n. 碟
skim v. 快速掠过
alien n.外星人
注解：
1. The media soon picked up on the story - the Flying Saucers were here! 媒体非常快就炮制出了这个故事飞碟在这里呢！pick up on 是个短语，在此处可以理解为：又回到Kenneth Arnold看到的这个飞行物并对它做进一步的描写。也就是说，可以把这个短语理解为炮制或编造。
2. UFO：不明飞行物
