每日一篇新概念 -- 第二册第二十九课（10月4日作业）

今天的作业早点交，马上有个饭局，得早点走。从搬到加州，这么多年来从年头到年尾，都是我一人在厨房忙进忙出地招呼别人。想不到如今俺京老二也有时来运转的时候，眼前请俺吃饭的竟然排上了长队，从夏天一直排到了圣诞节！我乐啊！

Lesson 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.