题目内容
The ________ flights between the mainland of China and Taiwan will benefit more travelers．
A．famous B．smart C．average D．regular
D
My husband and son took a New York-to-Milwaukee flight that was supposed to leave Friday at 11:29 am. The flight boarded after 4 pm and didn’t leave the gate until 4:40, and half an hour later the pilot announced it would be another hour until takeoff. At that point a Jewish family, worried about violating the Sabbath （安息日）, asked to get off. Going back to the gate cost the plane its place in line for takeoff, and the flight was eventually cancelled. Was the airline right to grant that request?
M. W, Norwalk, CONN.
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Situations like that can bring out the worst in people. But despite the increasing resentment（怨恨） of a plane full of people, the pilot tried to do the right thing. He went out of his way to satisfy one family’s urgent need. He should not have done so.
Passengers bought tickets in the belief that the airline’s primary goal was to get them to their destination as close to the schedule as possible. Once they got on the plane and the doors are locked, it’s not correct to announce that the rules have changed and that a personal (as opposed to medical) emergency —no matter how urgent — might take precedence（优先）.
That would be just as true if turning back to the gate had merely cost a few minutes rather than doomed the flight entirely, since on a plane, even a slight delay can spread outward, from the people in the cabin to those meeting them to the passengers waiting to board the plane for the next leg of its journey and so on. It would also be true if the personal emergency were not religious — if someone suddenly realized she’d made a professional mistake that might cost her millions, and she had to race back to the office to fix it.
If a religious practice does nothing to harm others, then airlines should make a reasonable effort to accommodate it. Though that family has every right to observe the Sabbath, it has no right to enlist an airplane full of captive bystanders to help them do so. By boarding a flight on a Friday afternoon, the family knowingly risked running into trouble. The risk was theirs alone to bear.
【小题1】M. W. wrote the letter to ask whether ______.
| A．Any religious passenger has the right to ask the pilot to take off |
| B．The airline has the right to cancel the flight without any reason |
| C．A flight should meet any passenger’s need despite others’ benefit |
| D．A plane which has left the gate should give up taking off |
| A．The pilot did the right thing in spite of the fierce resentment. |
| B．The plane should turn back if anyone aboard is seriously ill. |
| C．Anybody who has boarded has no chance to get off the plane. |
| D．Any flight shouldn’t change its schedule no matter what has happened. |
| A．Turning back to the gate usually takes a plane quite a long time. |
| B．Nobody should take precedence to require the plane to turn back to the gate. |
| C．Even if it had taken a few minutes it was not right to turn back to the gate. |
| D．It was OK if turning back to the gate hadn’t caused the flight to be cancelled. |
| A．It’s right for the plane to turn back to the gate to save a passenger’s treasure |
| B．The Jewish family should give up observing the Sabbath after boarding |
| C．The biggest problem of turning back is to bring trouble to the pilot |
| D．The Jewish family had better avoid boarding on Friday afternoon |
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| A．07:49. | B．06:34. | C．07:54. | D．06:31. |
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We hurried all the way to the airport , only that the flight had been called off because of the foggy weather .
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A．being told |
B．to be told |
C．having told |
D．to have been told |
Please look at the Flight Timetable and choose the right answers.
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Flight No. Departure Arrival From To Stop CA907 07:45 12:10 Beijing Moscow Chengdu CA981 01:58 18:35 Beijing New York Shanghai CA158 10:20 23:10 Beijing London Chengdu CA149 11:35 22:10 Beijing Sydney Hong Kong CA923 12:35 17:10 Beijing Moscow / CA167 13:15 02:40 Beijing Paris Moscow CA147 15:55 10:15 Beijing Sydney Guangzhou CA949 17:25 07:35 Beijing Paris Shanghai CA173 19:20 01:50 Beijing Moscow Urumqi CA937 21:25 08:10 Beijing London Hong Kong |
(departure=leaving)
1.You’ll go to Australia. You can only take
when you reach Beijing Airport at eleven forty.
A.CA923 B.CA149 C. CA147 D. CA167
2. If you spend fourteen hours and ten minutes going to France, you must stay in on the way.
A. Hong Kong B. Shanghai C. Moscow D. Chengdu
3. It will take you to reach England if you stop in Hong Kong.
A. nine hours and twenty B. ten hours and thirty-five
C. twelve hours and fifty D. ten hours and forty-five
4.ou may in Beijing if you want to go to America.
A. take one plane B. take two planes
C. take three plane D. not take any planes
5. How many planes may you take in Beijing if you want to go to Australia?
A. One B. Two C. Three D. Four.