2022届高三英语培优外刊阅读学案：波音话题

高三英语培优外刊阅读 班级：____________学号：____________姓名：____________ 外刊精选｜波音，何以至此？ 最近东航的坠机事件令人心痛，坠毁的飞机是由波音公司生产的737-800型客机。事发之后，东航已宣布将所有由波音737-800执飞航班的飞机全部控制在地面。据统计，全世界与波音737相关的事故，已累计达到51起，其中31起为坠毁事故，共造成超过2500人死亡。波音公司的飞机，真的存在安全隐患吗？这些问题跟波音公司的决策转变又有什么关系？ The Crash of Two Airplanes and the Crisis at Boeing By David Gelles In October 2021, a federal grand jury indicted a former Boeing test pilot named Mark Forkner, accusing him of deceiving the Federal Aviation Administration and scheming to defraud airlines during the development of the 737 Max. While Forkner does appear to have hoodwinked regulators and misled customers, he was hardly the one most responsible for the two 737 Max crashes, which occurred in 2018 and 2019. Ultimate blame for the crashes lies with the highly paid executives who waged a decades-long campaign to transform Boeing from a company “once ruled by engineers who thumbed their noses at Wall Street” into “one of the most shareholder-friendly creatures of the market”. Much of Boeing’s success came from its ability to produce reliable airplanes. A crucial part of what made the company great during the 20th century was its exceptional corporate culture. Authority inside Boeing rested with aeronautical engineers, not finance executives. Then, right around the turn of the millennium, Boeing lost its way. There was the decision to redesign the 737 instead of designing a new jet, obliging the company to update a plane that had been introduced in the 1960s. There was the introduction of a new piece of poorly designed software, MCAS, which ultimately wrested control of the plane away from the pilots. 【词汇过关】 请写出下面文单词在文章中的中文意思。 1.crisis [ˈkraɪsɪs] n._________________________ 2.grand [ɡrænd] adj._________________________ 3.jury [ˈdʒʊəri] n. _________________________ 4.indict [ɪnˈdaɪt] vt. _________________________ 5.deceive [dɪˈsiːv] v._________________________ 6.hoodwink [ˈhʊdwɪŋk] vt. _________________________ 7.hardly adv._________________________ 8.executive [ɪɡˈze