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1、 Lesson 29 Taxi!出租汽车听录音,然后答复以下问题。 Does Captain Fawcett think any trip is too dangerous? Captain Ben Fawcett has bought an unusual taxi and has begun a new service. The ”taxi” is a small Swiss aeroplane called a ”Pilatus Porter”. This wonderful plane can carry seven passengers. The most surprising th
2、ing about it, however, is that it can land anywhere: on snow, water, or even on a ploughed field. Captain Fawcett”s first passenger was a doctor who flew from Birmingham to a lonely village in the Welsh mountains. Since then, Captain Fawcett has flown passengers to many unusual places. Once he lande
3、d on the roof of a block of flats and on another occasion, he landed in a deserted car park. Captain Fawcett has just refused a strange request from a businessman. The man wanted to fly to Rockall, a lonely island in the Atlantic Ocean, but Captain Fawcett did not take him because the trip was too d
4、angerous. New words and expressions 生词和短语taxi n.Pilatus Porterland v.plough v.lonely adj.Welsh adj.roof n.block n.flat n.desert v.参考译文 本.弗西特机长买了一辆不同寻常的出租汽车,并开头了一项新的业务。这辆“出租汽车”是一架小型瑞士飞机,叫“皮勒特斯.波特“号。这架奇异的飞机可以载7名乘客。然而,最令人惊异的是它能够在任何地方降落:雪地上,水面上,甚至刚耕过的田里。弗西特机长的第一名乘客是位医生,他从伯明翰飞往威尔士山区一个偏僻的村庄。从那时开头,弗西特机长已经载送乘客到过很多不寻常的地方。一次,他把飞机降落在了一栋公寓楼的屋顶上;还有一次,降落在了一个废弃的停车场上。弗西特机长刚刚拒绝了一位商人的惊奇要求。这个人想要飞往大西洋上的一个孤岛 - 罗卡尔岛,弗西特机长之所以不送他去,是由于那段飞行太危急了。