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第 26 題
One of the scariest videos on YouTube was recorded by the nose-cone camera of a fighter jet as it was taking off. 26 The pilot spends an agonizing 30 seconds or so trying to regain control, before issuing the order to eject, after which the viewer is treated to a shot of the onrushing ground before the screen goes blank.
Bird strikes are a problem—sometimes a fatal one—for military and civil aviation alike. America's Federal Administration reports that there are about 10,000 such strikes a year to the country's non-military aircraft, costing more than $957 million in damage and delays. 27
Moreover, though relatively few people have been killed in accidents caused by bird strikes, the potential for something horrible to happen is real—as was shown by one of the most famous strikes of recent years. 28 The passengers were saved only by the skill of the pilot, Chelsley Sullenberger, who managed to ditch the plane safely in the Hudson river.
At the moment, attempts to deal with the problem mostly involve efforts to cull flocks of the larger species—geese in particular—in the vicinity of airports, and also the use of bird scarers to try to drive off those actually sitting near runways. 29 There may, however, be a better way. For a decade or more the air forces of several countries have used radar to track birds which might threaten their aircraft. 30 If they work, the old methods of trying to scare birds away, or cull them, can be abandoned.
Choose the best answer from the box below for blank 26.
Bird strikes are a problem—sometimes a fatal one—for military and civil aviation alike. America's Federal Administration reports that there are about 10,000 such strikes a year to the country's non-military aircraft, costing more than $957 million in damage and delays. 27
Moreover, though relatively few people have been killed in accidents caused by bird strikes, the potential for something horrible to happen is real—as was shown by one of the most famous strikes of recent years. 28 The passengers were saved only by the skill of the pilot, Chelsley Sullenberger, who managed to ditch the plane safely in the Hudson river.
At the moment, attempts to deal with the problem mostly involve efforts to cull flocks of the larger species—geese in particular—in the vicinity of airports, and also the use of bird scarers to try to drive off those actually sitting near runways. 29 There may, however, be a better way. For a decade or more the air forces of several countries have used radar to track birds which might threaten their aircraft. 30 If they work, the old methods of trying to scare birds away, or cull them, can be abandoned.
Choose the best answer from the box below for blank 26.
- A Now, similar systems are being considered for civilian airports.
- B In 2009 an Airbus with 155 people on board hit a flock of geese when it was taking off from LaGuardia airport in New York.
- C As the figures suggest, these approaches do not work well.
- D Just after the plane leaves the runway a large bird comes hurtling towards it and vanishes into the aircraft's engine.
- E The world-wide figure is estimated by the European Space Agency to be $1.2 billion.
思路引導 VIP
請觀察第一段的第一句與第三句：第一句提到影片錄下了「起飛過程」，而第三句說飛行員「正努力奪回控制權」。如果你是導演，為了讓這段敘事完整，在「起飛」與「失控」之間，應該發生了什麼樣的具體事件，才能解釋這種突然的轉變？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
做得非常棒！你能準確選出 (D) 選項，代表你對文章的敘事邏輯與動作連續性有很敏銳的觀察力。這道題目的難度切入點在於判讀「突發事件」與「後續反應」之間的因果關係，是一題考驗語意銜接能力的優質題目。
語意銜接與因果邏輯
文章開頭提到這是一段「極為恐怖」的戰鬥機起飛影片，而空格後的句子緊接著描述飛行員「痛苦地掙扎 30 秒試圖奪回控制權」。顯然，空格處必須填入一個導致飛機失控的具體意外。選項 (D) 提到的「大鳥衝向飛機並捲入引擎」，正好解釋了為什麼飛機會突然出問題，也為後續飛行員必須彈射逃生的情節提供了充分的理由。同時，這個情節也完美地引出了下文關於「鳥擊（bird strikes）」的全球性議題，使整段文字轉折自然且結構嚴謹。