19-10-16【地道美语118】又大又酷，便利智能，世界最大Airport 大兴机场

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 dialogue 1

Jingjing: Mark, have you heard about Beijing's new airport?

Mark:  Youmean ------?  I've f------------- there dozens of times.

Jingjing: No, it's an ---------- new airport, to the ----------- of Beijing.

Mark:  Youmean -------------airport?  I flew in and out of there once.

Jingjing: No.  It's Daxing Airport.  It's an----------- from Beijing'scity center.

Mark:  Oh. I heard years back about plans to build ---------------.  Is it -------------now?

Jingjing: Yes.  It went into ----- on September ----------.  ----------------------

Mark:  Wow. That'll---------------------- Beijing's Capitol Airport.

Jingjing: For sure.  In the future, when the------------- Daxing has now go upto -------------, the new airport should be able to meet the----------------passengers annually.

Mark:  Geez. The ---------- could fly through there once ------------.  Is itrunning a lot of -------------- flights?

Jingjing: Well, the -----------  At present, China's major ------------areusing Daxing, as well as a few international carriers.

Mark:  Ican't wait to see it.  Do you have any pictures ------------------------

Jingjing: Yeah.  Here: have a look.

Mark:  Cool. It looks like a -----------------

Jingjing: Um, Mark, it's supposed to be a ---------  You know, a phoenixrepresents ---------------

Mark:  Oh. I see that also.  You'll have to tell me more about it after I goget some coffee.

Jingjing:  --------------------- I'llbe ready with ------------

dialogue 2

Jingjing: Mark, you're back with something ------------------

Mark:  Yes,and I'm ready to ------------ statistics on the new airport.

Jingjing: OK, so here's the big news: the terminal has--------m2 of----------whilethe whole airport spans an area of-----------------------km2.

Mark:  That'sincredible.  It must mean a lot of ------------for passengers.

Jingjing: Actually, no.  ------------------------

Mark:  Well,that's the -------- news.  People on -----------------will beespecially pleased about that.

Jingjing: So, are you thinking of--------------

Mark:  Well,you said it was almost ---------km from here.  -----------until Iactually have to fly.

Jingjing: That's -----------.  But another piece of good news is that ----------------------. It departs from Caoqiao.

Mark:  I'llhave to look at the ------------------to see where that is.------train thattakes 30 minutes in total.

Mark:  Well,I'll look forward ----------, especially if I'm headed through Daxing. Just one more question.

Jingjing: --------------- Ihope I have the info.

Mark:  Howmuch did it cost to build the new airport?

Jingjing:  ---------

Mark: -------- But I imagine it'll pay for itself in business ------ and ----------

new words andphrases

from dialogue 1

take a load off – relievethe burden of something

terminal – thebuilding for passengers at an airport, including check-in and gates

stats –statistics, information expressed in numbers

from dialogue 2

an earful – a lot ofinformation, more than I need to hear/know

connecting flight – a flightplan for a passenger, transferring at one airport and flying on to another destination

soft pass – I'd rathernot, I'm not really interested unless there's something else that can persuademe

a pretty penny – a highprice