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Lesson 29 Taxi!
出租汽车!
First listen and then answer the question.
听录音，然后回答以下问题。
Dose Captain Fawcett think any trip is too dangerous?
Captain Ben Fawcett has bought an unusual taxi and has begun a new service.
本.弗西特机长买了一辆不同寻常的出租汽车，并开始了一项新的业务。
The 'taxi' is a small Swiss aeroplane called a 'Pilatus Porter'.
这辆“出租汽车”是一架小型瑞士飞机，叫“皮勒特斯.波特“号。
This wonderful plane can carry seven passengers.
这架奇妙的飞机可以载7名乘客。
The most surprising thing about it, however, is that it can land anywhere: onsnow, water, or even on a ploughed field.
然而，最令人惊奇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。
Captain Fawcett's first passenger was a doctor who flew from Birmingham to alonely village in the Welsh mountains.
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。
Since then, Captain Fawcett has flown passengers to many unusual places.
从那时开始，弗西特机长已经载送乘客到过许多不寻常的地方。
Once he landed on the roof of a block of flats and on another occasion, helanded in a deserted car park.
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。
Captain Fawcett has just refused a strange request from a businessman.
弗西特机长刚刚拒绝了一位商人的奇怪要求。
The man wanted to fly to Rockall, a lonely island in the Atlantic Ocean,
这个人想要飞往大西洋上的一个孤岛 -- 罗卡尔岛，
but Captain Fawcett did not take him because the trip was too dangerous.
弗西特机长之所以不送他去，是因为那段飞行太危险了。

魔乐岛蒙学•新概念英语第二册（29）