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A mysterious phenomenon is the ability of over-water migrants to travel on course. Birds, bees, and other species can keep track

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问题     A mysterious phenomenon is the ability of over-water migrants to travel on course. Birds, bees, and other species can keep track of time without any sensory cues from the outside world, and such "biological clocks" clearly contribute to their "compass sense." For example, they can use the position of the Sun or stars, along with the time of day, to find north. But compass sense alone cannot explain how birds navigate the ocean: after a flock traveling east is blown far south by a storm, it will assume the proper northeasterly course to compensate. Perhaps, some scientists thought, migrants determine their geographic position on the Earth by celestial navigation, almost as human navigators use stars and planets, but this would demand of the animals a fantastic map sense. Researchers now know that some species have a magnetic sense, which might allow migrants to determine their geographic location by detecting variations in the strength of the Earth’s magnetic field.   
It can be inferred from the passage that if the flock of birds described in the passage were navigating by compass sense alone, they would, after the storm, fly ______.
选项 A、east
B、north
C、northwest
D、south
答案A
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