Concorde’s Birthday
CONCORDE, the world’s fastest passenger plane, will soon be over 33 years old. It first _
_1__ on 2 March 1969 in France. Concorde was developed by both France and Britain. From 1956 these two countries had a
_2__ of a supersonic passenger plane. In 1962 they started to _
_3__ together on the project. The plane _
_4_ over 1.5 billion pounds to develop. It is the most tested plane in the history. It was given over 5000 hours of testing. Concorde flies at twice the speed of
_5__. This means that it _
6_ only 3 hours 25 minutes to fly between London and New York, compare with 7—8 hours in other passenger jets. Because of the five-hour time difference between the USA and Britain, it is
_7__ to travel west on Concorde and arrive in New York before you leave London! You can catch the 10:30a.m. _
8__ from London, Heathrow and start work in New York an hour _
9_! Concorde is much used by business people and film stars. Each Concorde is built at a cost of 55 million pounds. Twenty have been built so far. Air France and British Airway
_10_ the most. They each have seven planes.
| 小题1: | | A．invented | B．produced | C．flew | D．took off |
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| 小题2: | | A．talk | B．dream | C．meeting | D．fight |
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| 小题3: | | A．work | B．do | C．carry | D．finish |
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| 小题4: | | A．paid | B．wanted | C．needed | D．cost |
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| 小题5: | | A．voice | B．sound | C．noise | D．shout |
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| 小题6: | | A．spends | B．takes | C．covers | D．travels |
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| 小题7: | | A．possible | B．impossible | C．real | D．unreal |
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| 小题8: | | A．plane | B．passenger | C．flight | D．airline |
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| 小题9: | | A．later | B．late | C．earlier | D．early |
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