Lesson 29



Taxi!



First listen and then answer the question.



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 thing 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 landed 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 dangerous.



taxi  [ˈtæksi]  n．出租汽车


Welsh   [welʃ]   adj．威尔士的


Pilatus Porter  [ˈpileitəs]     [ˈpɔ:tə]   皮勒特斯·波特 (飞机机名)

roof  [ru:f]   n．楼顶


block  [blɔk]   n．一座大楼


land  [lænd]   v．着陆


flat  [flæt]   n．公寓房


plough  [plau]   v．耕地


desert   [di'zə:t]   v．废弃


lonely  [ˈləunli]  adj．偏僻的，人迹罕至的