(单词翻译:单击)
听力文本
USA Suffers 4 Simultaneous Attacks
The world watches in shock and awe as 4 commercial airliners wreak havoc in the USA.
In 2001, the world watched its TV screens in disbelief as 4 commercial airliners were simultaneously hijacked in U.S. airspace and diverted.
Two were flown directly into the upper storeys of the World Trade Center's Twin Towers in New York, causing their sudden collapse.
A third was flown into the Pentagon in Washington, nerve center of the U.S. military.
While the fourth was brought down before reaching its presumed target, the White House or Congress.
Some 3,000 people died in these incidents.
参考译文
美国四架国内民航航班几乎被同时劫持
美国四架国内民航航班几乎被同时劫持使得世界为之震惊。
在2001年,全世界人民在电视屏幕上难以置信地看到4架商用客机在美国领空同时遭劫持并被迫改变路线。
两架飞机直接撞向纽约世贸中心的双子塔顶层,造成双子塔突然倒塌。
第三架则撞向美国军方的神经中枢华盛顿五角大楼。
而第四架在到达假定目标白宫国会之前被击落。
这起事件共造成约3000人死亡。
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词语解释
1.bring down 击败
例句:Mother wants to come downstairs, but is too weak to walk; it'll take both of you to bring her down.
母亲要下楼，但她太虚弱了，走不动，这得你们俩把她抬下来。
2.hijack 劫持
例句:He made a desperate attempt to hijack a plane.
他铤而走险，企图劫持一架飞机。
3.commercial 商业
例句:Docklands in its heyday was a major centre of industrial and commercial activity.
港区在其最繁荣的时期曾是主要的工商业活动中心。
4.simultaneous 同时
例句:It can process more than 17 petaflops of data per second& that 's roughly 20,000 trillion simultaneous calculations.
它每秒钟可处理超过17千万亿次数据&大约相当于同时进行2万万亿次运算。
课后问题
1.At the time of their hijacking, the airliners were in
a) U.S. cities
b) U.S. airports
c) U.S. airspace
2.How many of the hijacked airliners were flown into buildings?
a) two
b) three
c) four
3.Planes that are hijacked are usually
a) diverted
b) crashed
c) brought down
参考答案
参考答案:C B A
