2021届高考英语二轮复习：中英双语阅读素材（十）

2021高考英语二轮复习：中英双语阅读素材（十） 传奇！这个人让数百万印度人买得起飞机 In the summer of 2005, retired army officer-turned-businessman GR Gopinath announced that he would enable Indians to fly at one rupee or less than a cent. 2005年夏天，退役军官出身的商人戈皮纳特(Gr Gopinath)宣布，他将使印度人能够以1卢比或不到1美分的价格飞行。 It was an incredulous sales pitch from the founder of the country's first budget airline. 这是该国第一家廉价航空公司创始人的一次令人难以置信的推销。 Air Deccan, his then two-year-old no-frills airline modelled on European budget carriers like EasyJet and Ryanair, had already made flying affordable to millions of Indians. Capt Gopinath's tickets cost half of what competitors charged. 他当时成立两年的廉价航空公司德干航空(Air Deccan)效仿易捷航空(EasyJet)和瑞安航空(Ryanair)等欧洲廉价航空公司，已经让数百万印度人负担得起飞行费用。戈皮纳特船长的门票价格是竞争对手票价的一半。 Now his airline introduced "dynamic pricing" where a small number of "early bird" customers could travel at a rupee. Latecomers would pay a higher ticket price, which would still be substantially lower than competitors. Not surprisingly, booking counters were overrun with