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1、Believe It or Not?A Reading AZ Level Z2 Leveled BookWord Count:2,246Visit www.readinga- for thousands of books and materials.Writing Choose one of the mysteries from the book and decide if it is real or a hoax.Write a persuasive essay to make your point,using information from the book and outside re
2、sources.Social StudiesResearch to learn more about one of the mysteries in the book and create an informational brochure for your class.Include interesting facts and illustrations.Connectionswww.readinga-Believe It or Not?Written by Kathie LesterLEVELED BOOK Z2YZ1Z2Believe It or Not?www.readinga-Why
3、 are people fascinated by unsolved mysteries?Focus QuestionWritten by Kathie Lester24Glossaryconundrums(n.)confusing and puzzling situations or problems;riddles(p.23)decompose(v.)to decay,rot,or break down into small parts(p.9)fractals(n.)curves or geometric shapes repeated many times within a desig
4、n with varying sizes but the same proportions(p.10)hoaxes(n.)things meant to mislead or trick(p.4)intricate(adj.)very detailed or complicated;complex(p.11)microwave(n.)an electromagnetic energy wave that is shorter than a radio wave but longer than infrared radiation,often used in heating and radar
5、devices(p.11)node(n.)the place on the stem of a plant from which a leaf or branch grows(p.11)pharaoh(n.)a ruler in ancient Egypt(p.15)plasma(n.)charged particles of gas that can conduct electricity(p.13)reclusive(adj.)shut off or apart from the world;solitary(p.5)retracted(v.)took back or withdrew(p
6、.12)sporadic(adj.)happening occasionally or in irregular or random intervals;not steady or constant(p.19)2423ConclusionMysterious occurrencesthings we cant understandwill always exist.Some people will think they are nonsense,and others will claim they are real.Now that youve read some evidence here
7、about four of them,its time to consider what youve read and determine what you believe.Research these conundrums for yourself using the Internet and the library to find more information.What do you think about these mysteries,and what others can you find?Easter IslandStonehengeHow were the moai stat
8、ues carved and moved?Why and how were these structures built?Believe It or Not?Level Z2Believe It or Not?Level Z2 Leveled Book Learning AZWritten by Kathie LesterAll rights reserved.www.readinga-Photo Credits:Front cover(top left),page 4(top):P fotostock;front cover(top right),pages 4(bottom left),2
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10、dernagel/Barcroft Media/Landov;page 9:Fortean/TopFoto/The Image Works;page 11:krmelda/123RF;page 12:Trinity Mirror/Mirrorpix/Alamy;page 13(main):Mike Lawrence/AP Images;page 14(top):iStock/Joze Pojbic;page 14(bottom):David Goddard/Getty Images News/Getty Images;page 15:K.SCHOLZ/ClassicStock/The Imag
11、e Works;page 16:Hulton-Deutsch/Corbis Historical/Getty Images;page 17(main):Mark Karass/Corbis;page 17(inset):David Cole/Alamy;page 18:iStock/travelshooterconundrumsdecomposefractalshoaxesintricatemicrowavenodepharaohplasmareclusiveretractedsporadicWords to KnowCorrelationLEVEL Z2YZN/A70+Fountas&Pin
12、nellReading RecoveryDRA233Table of ContentsIntroduction .4Bigfoot .5Crop Circles .10The Curse of the Mummy .15Bermuda Triangle .19Conclusion .23Glossary .24An amateur photographer took this picture in 1952 of what many thought was an alien spacecraft.Do you think its real or a fake?Believe It or Not
13、?Level Z222Others say the unexplained losses are a result of the severe weather natural to the area.Hurricanes and violent waterspouts blow up suddenly,and tidal waves are common.The Gulf Stream,which flows through the Triangle,is known to cause violent atmospheric changes.Any vessel that is destroy
14、ed would wash away without a trace.Some of the missing crews,when rescued later,tell stories of being forced to leave their storm-damaged ships.Some say that nothing unusual is going on in the area and that more strange accidents happen there simply because it is one of the most heavily traveled are
15、as of the ocean.They also suggest that some of the losses blamed on the Bermuda Triangle actually happened hundreds of miles away.Other vessels that have been reported lost showed up later.Some vessels claimed to have been lost in the Triangle existed solely in the imaginations of storytellers.Do yo
16、u think the Bermuda Triangle is real or a hoax?In the vast ocean,violent weather could destroy a ship and not leave any evidence.4IntroductionIf you heard that hairy,odorous giants live in our wilderness or that extraterrestrials make pictures in wheat fields,would you believe it or discount it?What
17、 if a friend told you an ancient curse causes people to die for disturbing a sacred burial site?Or that some force in the Atlantic Ocean makes ships and planes vanish?How would you know whether these stories were true?After reading this book,youll have some evidence about these unsolved mysteries.Yo
18、u can decide whether you think theyre genuine or hoaxes.Was this young kings tomb protected by a curse?Who or what has made such intricate designs on acres of fields?Can anyone explain the mysterious losses of ships and planes?21The USS Cyclops disappeared in March 1918 while traveling from Barbados
19、 to Baltimore,Maryland,with 306 people on board.This is one of the earliest incidents linked to the Bermuda Triangle.In 1966,Captain Donald Henrys tug,the Good News,was towing a cargo barge from Puerto Rico to Fort Lauderdale,Florida,on a clear day.When a dense fog suddenly swirled around the barge,
20、the Good News lost the use of all of its instruments and partially lost power.For five minutes,the Good News struggled in a tug-of-war with the fog bank;it finally managed to pull itself and the barge free.It appeared that the sea inside the fog was bubbling and choppy,while the sea outside was calm
21、.People claim that a mysterious power causes the many losses of ships and crews in the Bermuda Triangle.Christopher Columbus claimed to have seen strange white lights on the horizon,and his compass malfunctioned.Because weird lights are seen there,some think that UFOs capture humans and take them aw
22、ay.The USS Cyclops disappeared in 1918.Believe It or Not?Level Z25BigfootFor hundreds of years in remote areas of the Pacific Northwest,Native Americans have told stories of having encountered gigantic,reclusive,bipedal,apelike creatures.The Salish peoples of Canada called them Sasquatch,which means
23、“wild man of the woods,”but other tribes use different names,including Lofa,Omah,and Shampe.All the names have one thing in common a reference to a human-shaped creature that is larger than most people.Since the 1950s,English speakers have most often used the name Bigfoot.WASHINGTONOREGONNKEYreprese
24、nts one Bigfoot sightingUNITED STATESBelieve It or Not?Level Z220On a clear day in 1945,while a group of planes called Flight 19 was on a U.S.Navy training mission,all five Avenger bombers lost their bearings and disappeared while trying to avoid worsening weather conditions.The rescue airship that
25、went to look for them also disappeared.In 1881,the merchant ship Ellen Austin was on its way from London to New York when it discovered a ghost ship floating without a crew.There were no signs of struggle on board the empty vessel.A crew boarded to steer her to New York,but when a thick fog surround
26、ed both ships during a squall,they lost contact overnight.When the ghost ship was found the next day,the second crew had disappeared as well.If a deserted ship could be brought to port,the crew could claim a reward.6In addition to Native Americans,others who have reported encounters with this creatu
27、re include railway and forest workers,hikers,travelers,and people who live in remote areas.In fact,sightings of these creatures go all the way back to 1811 in Alberta,Canada.Most of the people making reports have never heard the Native American stories,so they havent had the opportunity to be influe
28、nced by other accounts of these creatures.Roger Patterson took this picture in 1967.Is it a Bigfoot,a bear,or a human in a gorilla suit?19Bermuda TriangleAs far back as 1780,there have been sporadic reports of strange things happening to ships and planes in an area of the Atlantic Ocean between Miam
29、i,Florida;Bermuda;and San Juan,Puerto Rico.In 1965,Vincent Gaddis wrote a book called Invisible Horizons about these strange occurrences.He was the first to call the area the Bermuda Triangle,and he also called it the Triangle of Death and the Devils Triangle.In this area,numerous planes and ships d
30、isappear without a trace,in fair weather and for no easily explainable reason.Crews mysteriously vanish from ships,dense fogs suddenly appear and disappear,and compasses and navigation equipment malfunction.Some people include a larger area when describing strange events in the Atlantic Ocean.UNITED
31、 STATESMEXICOCANADAMiamiSan JuanBERMUDAPUERTO RICOTHE BAHAMASNBelieve It or Not?Level Z27A Bigfoot is reported to be huge,as tall as 8 feet(2.4 m),with tangled hair all over its body.Based on the length and depth of its enormous footprintsmore than 14 inches(35.5 cm)long and 3 inches(7.6 cm)deepits
32、weight is estimated to be between 350 and 800 pounds(160360 kg).People who see one usually report hearing high-pitched screams and smelling a terrible odor.Cryptozoologists(scientists who study animals that may or may not exist)and other curious people have spent a great deal of time and money to di
33、scover whether Bigfoot really exists.Many websites are dedicated to recording and investigating Bigfoot sightings.After following up on thousands of eyewitness reports,they have not yet been able to find proof.Bigfoot is believed to be smaller than a grizzly bear but taller than the average man.9 ft
34、 8 ft 6 ft 4 ft 2 ft 2.74 m 2.44 m 1.83 m 1.22 m.61 m GrizzlyBigfootManBelieve It or Not?Level Z218Some people believe the curse has a rational,biological explanation.Decomposing bodies sometimes produce molds and bacteria that could cause illness and death.Could this have contributed to Lord Carnar
35、vons death?Todays archaeologists wear rubber gloves and special clothing for protection,but early archaeologists and tomb robbers might have become sickened in this way.This might have been how stories of a curse started.Ancient Egyptians went to a lot of trouble to prepare their kings for burial.Th
36、ey believed that kings should be buried with riches to use in their next life.These Egyptians may have started legends of danger to protect the tombs.Do you think the curse of the mummy is real or a hoax?Egyptian pharaohs were buried in pyramids.8In 1924,a lumberjack named Albert Ostman went into th
37、e mountains alone to prospect for gold.He had worked for more than a year on a construction job and decided to take a three-week vacation.During the third night of his trip,he was carried off in his sleeping bag by something huge and smelly.After several hours,it dropped him in a clearing,where four
38、 huge,hairy,apelike creatures surrounded him.They seemed to be a family made up of four members:a father,a mother,and two children.Albert escaped,badly shaken but unharmed,after nearly a week.This is just one report of a Bigfoot encounter,though not all were so nonviolent.In 1998,Dr.John Bindernagel
39、 examined a pit in which he thought a Bigfoot had built a nest.17In the early 1900s,reporters sometimes invented details to make stories more exciting.Lord Carnarvon had actually been ill for twenty years before he died from the infected mosquito bite,so the timing of his death might have been just
40、a coincidence.Research shows that only six people involved with finding the tomb died in the first ten years.Many of the tomb workers lived long lives.Howard Carter worked on the tomb for at least ten years,and yet he lived for seventeen years after the discovery.He rejected the idea of the curse,ca
41、lling it“tommy rot.”The curse that was reportedly written in the tomb was never there.Howard Carter with Lord Carnarvon(right,inset photo),who funded the search for King Tuts tomb in an area of Egypt called the Valley of the Kings(above)Believe It or Not?Level Z29In the vast uninhabited forests and
42、glaciers of the northwestern United States,nature quickly disposes of dead bodies.They decompose or are eaten by insects or other scavengers.Some people believe that the reason a Bigfoot body hasnt been found is because they live between dimensions,spending only short periods of time in this dimensi
43、on.However,scientists believe that if Bigfoot does exist,someone should be able to find a dead body,a skeleton,or fossil remains,yet nothing has ever been found.In 1977,a Bigfoot sighting in northern Washington turned out to be a hoax planned by three young men using gorilla suits and walkie-talkies
44、.This makes some people think that other reports must have been faked as well.Some websites report that up to 80 percent of sightings have been confirmed as hoaxes.Do you think the Bigfoot sightings are real or a hoax?A mans foot compared to a cast of a Bigfoot footprint Believe It or Not?Level Z216
45、Carters search for the tomb was funded by George E.S.M.Herbert,fifth Earl of Carnarvon.When Lord Carnarvon died in Cairo in 1923 from an infected mosquito bite,newspaper stories said that he was killed by a pharaohs curse.It was also said that Carnarvons dog howled and dropped dead in England at the
46、 same minute as his owner and that all the lights in Cairo flickered.The newspapers,knowing that sensational stories drove subscriptions,reported that twenty-six people involved with the tombs discovery died in the first ten years,many under suspicious circumstances.This fascinating mystery has been
47、 used as the theme for many movies,books,and games.Howard Carter opens a door to King Tuts tomb in 1922.10Crop CirclesIn fields of tall crops,circles where the plants have been flattened were reported as early as 1590.While the majority of crop circles appear in England,they also appear in twenty-ni
48、ne other countries.Farmers thought they were made by wind.In the 1980s,the number of circles increased dramatically all over the world,and since then,they have changed from simple circles to complex designs illustrating mathematical concepts that include fractals.Most crop circles form mysteriously
49、in the night,but a few people report having seen them formed by spaceships or whirlwinds,and almost always during a full moon.Sometimes lights are seen in the sky,accompanied by humming or music,and sometimes radiation can be detected inside the circles.Many crop circles are very large.This one cons
50、isted of 149 circles and appeared near Stonehenge within 20 minutes in broad daylight.15The Curse of the MummyOn November 4,1922,Howard Carter discovered the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun,known today as King Tut.The tomb was filled with incredibly valuable treasures.The Daily Mail and oth