(美音版)新概念英語第二冊:Lesson 29 Taxi!

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Lesson 29 Taxi!
    出租汽車!
    First listen and then answer the question.
    聽錄音,然后回答以下問題。
    Dose Captain Fawcett think any trip is too dangerous?
    Captain Ben Fawcett has bought an unusual taxi and has begun a new service.
    本.弗西特機長買了一輛不同尋常的出租汽車,并開始了一項新的業(yè)務。
    The 'taxi' is a small Swiss aeroplane called a 'Pilatus Porter'.
    這輛“出租汽車”是一架小型瑞士飛機,叫“皮勒特斯.波特“號。
    This wonderful plane can carry seven passengers.
    這架奇妙的飛機可以載7名乘客。
    The most surprising thing about it, however, is that it can land anywhere: on snow, water, or even on a ploughed field.
    然而,最令人驚奇的是它能夠在任何地方降落:雪地上,水面上,甚至剛耕過的田里。
    Captain Fawcett's first passenger was a doctor who flew from Birmingham to a lonely village in the Welsh mountains.
    弗西特機長的第一名乘客是位醫(yī)生,他從伯明翰飛往威爾士山區(qū)一個偏僻的村莊。
    Since then, Captain Fawcett has flown passengers to many unusual places.
    從那時開始,弗西特機長已經(jīng)載送乘客到過許多不尋常的地方。
    Once he landed on the roof of a block of flats and on another occasion, he landed in a deserted car park.
    一次,他把飛機降落在了一棟公寓樓的屋頂上;還有一次,降落在了一個廢棄的停車場上。
    Captain Fawcett has just refused a strange request from a businessman.
    弗西特機長剛剛拒絕了一位商人的奇怪要求。
    The man wanted to fly to Rockall, a lonely island in the Atlantic Ocean,
    這個人想要飛往大西洋上的一個孤島 -- 羅卡爾島,
    but Captain Fawcett did not take him because the trip was too dangerous.
    弗西特機長之所以不送他去,是因為那段飛行太危險了。