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下面的短文有 15 处空白，请根据短文内容为每处空白确定 1 个最佳选项。 Animal’s “ Sixth Sense” A tsunami ...

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问题 下面的短文有 15 处空白，请根据短文内容为每处空白确定 1 个最佳选项。
Animal’s “ Sixth Sense”
A tsunami （海啸）was triggered （引发）by an earthquake in the Indian Ocean in December, 2004. It killed tens of thousands of people in Asia and East Africa. Wil animals, ___________ ( 1 ) ，seem to have escaped that terrible tsunami. This phenomenon adds weight to notions that they possess a “sixth sense” for ________ (2 )，experts said.
Sri Lankan wildlife officials have said the giant waves that killed over 24, 000 people along the Indian Ocean island’s coast clearly ____________ (3) wild beasts, with no dead animals found. “ No elephants are dead，not ____________ (4) a dead rabbit. I think animals can — __________ (5 ) disaster. They have a sixth sense. They know when things are happening， ” H. D. Ratnayake，deputy director of Sri Lanka’s Wildlife Department，said about one month after the tsunami attack. The ___________ (6) washed floodwaters up to 2 miles inland at Yala National Park in the ravaged（ 被毁坏的） southeast, Sri Lanka’s biggest wildlife ____________ (7) and home to hundreds of wild elephants and several leopards （豹）.
"There has been ____________ (8) apparent evidence about dogs barking or birds migrating before volcanic eruptions （火山爆发）or earthquakes. But it has not been proven,” said Matthew van Lierop，an animal behavior ____________ (9) at Johannesburg Zoo.
“ There have been no ____________ (10) studies because you can’t really test it in. a lab or field setting,” he told Reuters. Other authorities concurred （同意）with this ______ (11).
“ Wildlife seem to be able to pick up certain ____________ (12), especially birds ... there are many reports of birds detecting impending （迫近的） disasters， ” said Clive Walker, who has written several books on African wildlife.
Animals ____________ (13) rely on the known senses such as smell or hearing to avoid danger such as predators （食肉动物）.
The notion of an animal “ sixth sense’’ — or  (14) other mythical power — is an enduring one which the evidence on Sri Lanka’s ravaged （荒凉的）coast is likely to add   (15).

(12)
选项 A way
B behavior
C principle
D phenomenon
答案D
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