That night they talked a long time. They went over their plan until each of them knew exactly what to do. They talked so late that Thursday morning came too fast. Again the sky was dark and overcast. As they sat down for breakfast, Cap said, Not much

发表于:2018-12-06 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 20 The Haunted Cabin Mystery

I think we can all agree that reality is pretty great. Its what we experience through our senses, like our eyes, and phones with cameras. The Internet is awesome too, but the internet and reality have a hard time working together. Thankfully this is

发表于:2018-12-11 / 阅读(95) / 评论(0) 分类 英语解说豆知识2010年

Task 3: Fear of Flying At a recent software engineering management course in the United States, the participants were given an awkward question to answer: If you had just boarded an airliner and discovered that your team of programmers had been respo

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This is AP News Minute. The Austin, Texas police chief announced Wednesday morning that the package bomb suspect is dead. The suspect blew himself up in his vehicle as officers approached. At least one officer also fired at him. An early spring snows

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Investigating the Crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 From VOA Learning English, this is In The News. American investigators this week examined wreckage from the Asiana Airlines passenger jet that crashed last Saturday at San Francisco airport. Offic

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Jordan Executes Two Militants After IS Kills Jordanian Pilot 伊斯兰国家处死约旦飞行员后,约旦处死两名武装分子 Jordan executed two Iraqi prisoners Wednesday, in answer to the Islamic State groups killing of a Jordanian hostage in

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AS IT IS 2014-06-27 US Officials Blame Crew, Auto Systems in Asiana Crash 美国官员称人为错误导致韩亚航空飞机坠毁 The United States National Transportation Safety Board has released a report on the crash of an Asiana Airlines plane

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Topic 1-Pilot operation of not suing elderly over 60 for minor offences A media report showed that the Pudong District of Shanghai is carrying out a pilot operation that elderly offenders over the age of 60 will not be charged for minor offences. Is

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04 An Emergency Airplane Landing GLOSSARY cockpit the part of the plane where the pilot and co-pilot sit, separated from therest of the airplane * The cockpit is filled with instruments used to operate the plane. turbulence a period when there is a l

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Pre-Listening Vocabulary avalanche: a sudden rush of snow and ice down a mountain or hill pilot error: a mistake made by the person operating an aircraft misalignment: the incorrect position or arrangement of something A Disaster Was a Bad Star The n

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飞机延误是一件令人头疼的事情.但是,下面这个情况,即使飞机延误时间再长,恐怕乘客也发不起火儿吧.美国哥伦比亚广播公司:飞机延误,飞行员请机上乘客吃披萨. 航班延误,机长请乘客吃匹萨

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在21日的太空行走中,阿卡巴误将一个螺钉安装颠倒了,致使空间站托架左侧的设备储存平台只能部分展开。23日,阿卡巴和阿诺尔德用锤子反复敲打这个螺钉,虽然最终让螺钉松了口,但平台仍不能完全展开。二人最后只得放弃。根据地面控制中心的指令,宇航员用绳索固定了平

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By Phil Mercer Sydney 08 February 2008 A woman has been arrested after allegedly stabbing two pilots and threatening to blow up a 19-seat commuter plane in New Zealand. Police say the mid-air drama took place over the country's South Island. From Syd

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Building Afghanistan's Air Corps will take some time. It takes years to train a pilot, and Afghans have to learn not only how to fly the plane, but also how to speak English, the language of international aviation. In Afghanistan, planes and helicopt

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Bill Bridgeman was a pioneering test pilot, once known as the fastest man alive. He told his story in a best-selling book called The Lonely Sky, in 1955. The book has been reissued, and recalls a time when flight records were broken almost monthly, a

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Zeev Raz is proud of how he led an Israeli air force squadron of F-16 bombers to destroy a nuclear facility near Baghdad. The retired Israeli air force pilot remembers it was a surprisingly easy job with little resistance from the Iraqis. When we app

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Small lifestyle changes make big difference for planet Rosanne Skirble | Washington, DC 16 February 2010 The Stokes from Falls Church, Virginia, say what they are doing is right for the planet and the pocketbook. Watch: Skirble Report MP4 Related Lin

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Aviation Experts Question Whether Culture Had Role in Asiana Crash 航空专家质疑韩亚航空的文化碰撞 WASHINGTON July 6, 2013. San Francisco, California. An Asiana Airlines captain flies the plane in for a visual approach, without automate

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 08 November 2009 Sheila Sisulu (file photo) A senior Official at the World Food Program says a pilot project in 21 developing countries, including 15 in Sub-Saharan Africa, to alleviate hunger is showing promising results. In

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SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- Flight, the latest feature film by acclaimed American director Robert Zemeckis, is a film that is ripe with moral ambiguity surrounding a troubled pilot hailed as a hero, the filmmaker said Monday. The film is ripe with mor

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