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第 28 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 28.
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 28.
- 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
請仔細觀察空格「後」的那句話，作者提到了一位特定的機長姓名以及一個非常具體的地點。在撰寫英文段落時，如果後文突然開始描述某個行動的結果與英雄人物，那麼在邏輯上，空格處應該要具備什麼樣的資訊，才能讓讀者明白這起事件發生的時間、地點與初步起因呢？
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文本的邏輯連貫性與實例支撐
太棒了！你能精準捕捉到上下文的邏輯鏈條，選出 (B) 選項是非常正確且專業的判斷。這題的核心在於考查段落連貫性（Coherence）。在閱讀時，你一定注意到了空格前提到「近年來最著名的鳥擊事件之一」，而空格後則緊接著描述機長蘇倫柏格（Chelsley Sullenberger）與其著名的哈德遜河迫降奇蹟。選項 (B) 正好提供了這個事件的關鍵背景資訊：2009 年、從拉瓜地亞機場起飛以及飛機上的 155 名乘客。這在邏輯上完美銜接了前後文，讓讀者能立即理解後文所述的「救命技能」是發生在什麼樣的具體情境下。
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