29_Taxi

29 Taxi

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.

Words

• land /lænd/ 降落
• ploughed /plaʊd/ 耕地
• lonely /ˈlonli/ 偏僻的
• flats /flæts/ 公寓
• deserted /dɪˈzɝtɪd/ 遗弃的

done做定语

1. 通常表被动⼀般/被动完成
2. a broken cup = the cup that has been broken
3. boiled water = water that has been boiled
4. 偶尔表示主动完成
5. fallen leaves = leaves that have fallen
6. a retired captain = a captain who has retired
7. a married man = a man that has married
8. 位置: 单词(done) + n. + done引导的短语