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Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in each blank with a proper word given in the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one more word than you need.
A. released B. eventually C. delivering D.address E. act
F. formerly G. fascination H. sighting I. inquiring J. undertaken K. misidentified |
From the early 1950s until 2009, a department in the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) documented and investigated reports of UFOs. Now, more than a decade after the program ended, many of those 1 classified files about UFO will be made available to the public for the first time.
Previously, some MoD files about UFOs had been published online at the U.K. National Archives (国家档案馆) website,The Telegraph reported. However, all of the agency’s UFO reports will be 2 this year on “a dedicated gov.uk web page”, spokesperson for the British Royal Air Force (RAF) told The Telegraph.
The decision came after PA Media, a British news agency, filed a request for the UFO files under a/an 3 on information, according to The Telegraph. MoD officials decided “it would be better to publish these records, rather than continue 4 documents to the National Archives.” the RAF spokesperson said.
The UK’s 5 with UFOs began around 1950, urging the MoD to form the Flying Saucer Working Party to 6 the phenomenon, according to the UK. National Archives. UFOs in the early 1950s even captured the attention of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who sent a memo to his air minister in 1952 7 : “What does all this stuff about flying saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth?”
The flying saucer group concluded that UFOs were delusions (错觉) or 8 objects , recommending that “ no further investigation of reported mysterious phenomenon in the air be 9 .” Nevertheless, other MoD divisions continued the work of official UFO investigation in the UK.
After MoD enacted a policy change on Dec.1st, 2009, the agency no longer recorded or investigated any UFO 10 , according to the report. But what they did find—including many recent UFO reports that were previously available only as hard copies—will be published online within the next few months, said Nick Pope, a former UFO investigator for the MoD.
