新概念英语第二册课文和笔记 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。
　　Does Captain Fawcett think any trip is too dangerous?

【New words and expressions】 生词和短语

★taxi　n. 出租汽车
taxi driver 出租车司机
take a taxi/take a bus/take a lift
Whose plane landed in the field

★Pilatus Porter　

★land　v. 着陆

★plough　v. 耕地
plough　.n. 梨
farm　农田

★lonely　adj. 偏僻的，人迹罕见的
lonely (人)　孤独的/cold fish
She felt lonely 感到，主观
She is alone.　事实，客观
Home alone

★Welsh　adj.

★roof　n. 楼顶
ceiling　天花板
raise the roof　v. 喧闹，大声抱怨
hit the ceiling　[美口] 勃然大怒，暴跳如雷

★block　n. 块，一座大楼
a block of flats　公寓楼
office block 办公楼

★flat　n. 公寓房
apartment 公寓
a block of apartments

★desert　v. 废弃
desert the house = let the room empty
desert　.n.　沙漠

　　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.