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Whydon’tbirdsgetlostontheirlongmigratory(迁移的)flights?Scientists1overthisquestionformanyyears.Nowthereasonshavebeendiscoveredonlyrecently.2agoexperimentsshowedthatbirdsdependonthesu

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Why don’t birds get lost on their long migratory(迁移的) flights?  Scientists ____1  over this question for many yearsNow the reasons have been discovered only recently.

    2    ago experiments showed that birds depend on the sun to guide them   3  . But what about birds that fly mainly by night ?    4    with man-made stars have proved   5    certain night-flying birds are able to follow the    6    in their long distance flights.

   One such   7   -a warbler (鸣禽)-had spent its lifetime in a   8   and had never flown under a natural sky. Yet it showed an inborn (天生的)    9   to use the stars for guidance. The bird’s cage was placed under a man-made star-filled sky at migration   10  . The bird tried to fly   11   the same direction as   12   taken by his indoor cousins. Any   13   in the position of the make-believe (虚构的) stars  14   a change in the direction of his flight.

Scientists think that warblers,   15   flying in daylight, use the sun for guidance. But stars are clearly their important   16   of navigation (导航). What do they do when the stars are   17   by the clouds? Clearly, they find their way by such land.   18    as mountain ranges, coastlines (海岸线) and river courses. But when it’s too   19   to see these, the warblers circle   20  , unable to find out where they were.

1. A. talked               B. puzzled               C. went              D. looked

2. A. Not long               B. Long                 C. Centuries              D. Years

3. A. during the night                         B. during daylight hours

C. in winter                    D. in the dark

4. A. Examinations               B. Laboratories              C. Tests              D. Sky

5. A. why              B. how              C. what              D. that

6. A. stars              B. moon              C. route              D. sun

7. A. star              B. scientist              C. bird          &nbsp

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