新视野大学英语读写教程听力 第三册 te-unit10-b
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[00:02.92]1 I climbed into the back-seat of the world\'s hottest jet fighter,
[00:08.86]the F-16. Clouds hung over our air base,
[00:14.44]but I knew that soon I would be above the clouds, where the sun was shining.
[00:20.09]2 A mechanic strapped me into my harness.
[00:24.88]and plugged in the system that would allow me to breathe
[00:28.51]and talk at 35,000 feet.
[00:32.22]"When you start pulling G\'s," he reminded me,
[00:37.26]referring to gravity forces,
[00:39.53]"your G-suit will fill with air automatically."
[00:43.63]I certainly hoped so.
[00:47.16]If my suit failed on a high-G mission like this,
[00:52.45]I coud be killed.
[00:54.72]3 "In an emergency," he said,
[00:58.68]"just pull the handle between your legs.
[01:01.81]A rocket under the seat will pop you out of the aircraft,seat and all.
[01:07.61]Your parachute will open automatically."
[01:12.00]The mechanic couldn\'t resist a parting joke:
[01:17.29]"If you have to use the survival equipment and it doesn\'t work,
[01:23.16]bring it back; we\'ll replace it."
[01:26.51]4 As I struggled to get comfortable, my pilot,
[01:31.66]Major patrick Hamilton,
[01:33.31]came aboard and started programming the jet\'s computers.
[01:32.31]Then, through the microphone, he spoke into my ear:
[01:37.35]"If you\'re ready, let\'s get going." Our engine roared to life,
[01:45.45]the powerful jet turbines making enough noise to waken the dead.
[01:50.49]We were going up for a practice battle.
[01:54.96]5 I expected the ride of my life, and with good reason.
[02:00.93]The F-16 is a $20 million piece of hardware
[02:06.91]that has enough horsepower to fly at twice the speed of sound.
[02:12.60]In tight turns and recovering from dives,
[02:17.35]it can pull nine G\'s, or nine times the force of gravity,
[02:23.72]causing a 200-pound man to weigh nearly a ton.
[02:29.34]6 The jet roared down the cement surface.
[02:34.23]slamming me against the seat. In seconds,
[02:37.08]we reached 145 miles per hour.
[02:42.51]The plane blasted into the air like a bullet shot out of a rifle,
[02:48.60]and soon we were at 2,000 feet and climbing.
[02:53.24]7 The F-16 can fly straight up. It can spin, dive, turn,
[03:01.63]climb, roll, and make loops with the grace of an eagle.
[03:06.63]Yet, loaded with practice bombs and 8,000 pounds of fuel,
[03:14.19]the mostly aluminum aircraft weighs some 15 tons.
[03:20.49]Controlling this precision machine and its many weapons is like playing
[03:26.86]a million-dollar video game that has dozens of buttons.
[03:32.05]8 "The controls are so sensitive." Major Hamilton says,
[03:37.23]"they\'re almost an extension of the pilot\'s body."
[03:40.69]9 In fewer than five minutes,
[03:44.65]we\'d reached an altitude of 35,000 feet.
[03:48.61]At near the speed of sound,
[03:51.63]we were flying ahead of our engine\'s roar.
[03:55.52]We felt little sense of speed or motion.
[03:59.98]Even the boom that happens when the jetd breaks the sound barrier went unnoticed.
[04:07.47]10 The ride was exciting yet peaceful, and the view beautiful:
[04:14.28]an ocean of blue above, a blanket of pure white below.
[04:20.43]Inside our clear chamber, we were warm and comfortable,
[04:25.72]but outside was a whole different world.
[04:28.96]The atmosphere was 30 degrees below zero centigrade and too thin to breathe.
[04:37.24]Trailing behind us were white stripes
[04:41.49]created by heat from our exhaust hitting sub-zero air.
[04:46.17]11 Our target area was 250 miles to the north.
[04:51.36]For a few minutes, we would be flying straight,
[04:56.11]so Major Hamilton turned the controls over to me.
[04:60.00]"But don\'t try anything fancy," he warned. My goodness!
[05:07.70]I thought of all the pilots who\'d give a month\'s pay to take my place.
[05:13.21]I turned the plane to the right,
[05:16.95]but I did it too hard and we went into a steep turn.
[05:21.81]I corrected with a squeeze to the left.
[05:26.96]That\'s about as fancy as I got.
[05:31.71]12 Flying the F-16 straight and level was easy enough.
[05:37.04]Flying in combat and managing the complex weapons system
[05:42.73]requires considerably more concentration.
[05:46.22]The pilot must command a collection of lights,
[05:50.79]dials,knobs, digital displays, and other electronic devices.
[05:57.49]"You must have to be an engineer or computer scientist to fly this airplane,"
[05:57.56]I commented over the microphone.
[06:00.12]13 "It helps," said Major Hamilton. But he added,
[06:07.42]"You don\'t have to know how everything is put together,
[06:11.02]just how the system operates.
[06:13.58]Even a monkey could fly this airplane."
[06:19.56]14 Suddenly we heard commander say "enemy" aircraft had been sighted.
[06:27.08]Action began with a rapid dive from 35,000 feet.
[06:32.95]I prepared for the G\'s I knew we\'d pull.
[06:37.74]When the G-meter reached 6.2,
[06:42.74]I could no longer lift my feet off the floor.
[06:46.02]No wonder — they weighed nearly 100 pounds. My vision went dim,
[06:54.19]as blood rushed from my head to my feet.
[06:57.54]My G-suit, now fully with air,
[07:02.43]compressed my legs to force the blood back into the upper part of my body.
[07:08.52]The jet twisted, turned, rolled, climbed and dived,
[07:14.35]constantly whipping me from one side to the other.
[07:17.73]I was having trouble following it all:
[07:21.62]I was, in fact, just hanging on.
[07:25.58]15 During our mission, no planes were actually shot down.
[07:31.77]But cameras connected to video recorders had captured the action on tape.
[07:39.08]Hits and misses, determined by computers,
[07:43.18]would be watched and evaluated in post-flight meetings.
[07:48.04]16 Although the major joked about how simple it was to fly the F-16,
[07:55.14]the truth is that a pilot must be an expert to control the craft.
[08:00.54]And to withstand the force of high-G movements,
[08:05.29]he must also be in top physical condition.
[08:09.03]As Major Hamilton landed our plane gracefully,
[08:14.22]I was thankful that he, not a monkey, had been my pilot.
[08:19.44]This man had indeed given me the ride of my life.
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[00:00.00]，就把hxen.com复制到QQ个人资料中！The Ride of My Life
[00:02.92]1 I climbed into the back-seat of the world\'s hottest jet fighter,
[00:08.86]the F-16. Clouds hung over our air base,
[00:14.44]but I knew that soon I would be above the clouds, where the sun was shining.
[00:20.09]2 A mechanic strapped me into my harness.
[00:24.88]and plugged in the system that would allow me to breathe
[00:28.51]and talk at 35,000 feet.
[00:32.22]"When you start pulling G\'s," he reminded me,
[00:37.26]referring to gravity forces,
[00:39.53]"your G-suit will fill with air automatically."
[00:43.63]I certainly hoped so.
[00:47.16]If my suit failed on a high-G mission like this,
[00:52.45]I coud be killed.
[00:54.72]3 "In an emergency," he said,
[00:58.68]"just pull the handle between your legs.
[01:01.81]A rocket under the seat will pop you out of the aircraft,seat and all.
[01:07.61]Your parachute will open automatically."
[01:12.00]The mechanic couldn\'t resist a parting joke:
[01:17.29]"If you have to use the survival equipment and it doesn\'t work,
[01:23.16]bring it back; we\'ll replace it."
[01:26.51]4 As I struggled to get comfortable, my pilot,
[01:31.66]Major patrick Hamilton,
[01:33.31]came aboard and started programming the jet\'s computers.
[01:32.31]Then, through the microphone, he spoke into my ear:
[01:37.35]"If you\'re ready, let\'s get going." Our engine roared to life,
[01:45.45]the powerful jet turbines making enough noise to waken the dead.
[01:50.49]We were going up for a practice battle.
[01:54.96]5 I expected the ride of my life, and with good reason.
[02:00.93]The F-16 is a $20 million piece of hardware
[02:06.91]that has enough horsepower to fly at twice the speed of sound.
[02:12.60]In tight turns and recovering from dives,
[02:17.35]it can pull nine G\'s, or nine times the force of gravity,
[02:23.72]causing a 200-pound man to weigh nearly a ton.
[02:29.34]6 The jet roared down the cement surface.
[02:34.23]slamming me against the seat. In seconds,
[02:37.08]we reached 145 miles per hour.
[02:42.51]The plane blasted into the air like a bullet shot out of a rifle,
[02:48.60]and soon we were at 2,000 feet and climbing.
[02:53.24]7 The F-16 can fly straight up. It can spin, dive, turn,
[03:01.63]climb, roll, and make loops with the grace of an eagle.
[03:06.63]Yet, loaded with practice bombs and 8,000 pounds of fuel,
[03:14.19]the mostly aluminum aircraft weighs some 15 tons.
[03:20.49]Controlling this precision machine and its many weapons is like playing
[03:26.86]a million-dollar video game that has dozens of buttons.
[03:32.05]8 "The controls are so sensitive." Major Hamilton says,
[03:37.23]"they\'re almost an extension of the pilot\'s body."
[03:40.69]9 In fewer than five minutes,
[03:44.65]we\'d reached an altitude of 35,000 feet.
[03:48.61]At near the speed of sound,
[03:51.63]we were flying ahead of our engine\'s roar.
[03:55.52]We felt little sense of speed or motion.
[03:59.98]Even the boom that happens when the jetd breaks the sound barrier went unnoticed.
[04:07.47]10 The ride was exciting yet peaceful, and the view beautiful:
[04:14.28]an ocean of blue above, a blanket of pure white below.
[04:20.43]Inside our clear chamber, we were warm and comfortable,
[04:25.72]but outside was a whole different world.
[04:28.96]The atmosphere was 30 degrees below zero centigrade and too thin to breathe.
[04:37.24]Trailing behind us were white stripes
[04:41.49]created by heat from our exhaust hitting sub-zero air.
[04:46.17]11 Our target area was 250 miles to the north.
[04:51.36]For a few minutes, we would be flying straight,
[04:56.11]so Major Hamilton turned the controls over to me.
[04:60.00]"But don\'t try anything fancy," he warned. My goodness!
[05:07.70]I thought of all the pilots who\'d give a month\'s pay to take my place.
[05:13.21]I turned the plane to the right,
[05:16.95]but I did it too hard and we went into a steep turn.
[05:21.81]I corrected with a squeeze to the left.
[05:26.96]That\'s about as fancy as I got.
[05:31.71]12 Flying the F-16 straight and level was easy enough.
[05:37.04]Flying in combat and managing the complex weapons system
[05:42.73]requires considerably more concentration.
[05:46.22]The pilot must command a collection of lights,
[05:50.79]dials,knobs, digital displays, and other electronic devices.
[05:57.49]"You must have to be an engineer or computer scientist to fly this airplane,"
[05:57.56]I commented over the microphone.
[06:00.12]13 "It helps," said Major Hamilton. But he added,
[06:07.42]"You don\'t have to know how everything is put together,
[06:11.02]just how the system operates.
[06:13.58]Even a monkey could fly this airplane."
[06:19.56]14 Suddenly we heard commander say "enemy" aircraft had been sighted.
[06:27.08]Action began with a rapid dive from 35,000 feet.
[06:32.95]I prepared for the G\'s I knew we\'d pull.
[06:37.74]When the G-meter reached 6.2,
[06:42.74]I could no longer lift my feet off the floor.
[06:46.02]No wonder — they weighed nearly 100 pounds. My vision went dim,
[06:54.19]as blood rushed from my head to my feet.
[06:57.54]My G-suit, now fully with air,
[07:02.43]compressed my legs to force the blood back into the upper part of my body.
[07:08.52]The jet twisted, turned, rolled, climbed and dived,
[07:14.35]constantly whipping me from one side to the other.
[07:17.73]I was having trouble following it all:
[07:21.62]I was, in fact, just hanging on.
[07:25.58]15 During our mission, no planes were actually shot down.
[07:31.77]But cameras connected to video recorders had captured the action on tape.
[07:39.08]Hits and misses, determined by computers,
[07:43.18]would be watched and evaluated in post-flight meetings.
[07:48.04]16 Although the major joked about how simple it was to fly the F-16,
[07:55.14]the truth is that a pilot must be an expert to control the craft.
[08:00.54]And to withstand the force of high-G movements,
[08:05.29]he must also be in top physical condition.
[08:09.03]As Major Hamilton landed our plane gracefully,
[08:14.22]I was thankful that he, not a monkey, had been my pilot.
[08:19.44]This man had indeed given me the ride of my life.
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