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第1页共7页 画学科网书城巴 品牌书店·知名教辅·正版资源 b.zxxk.com 您身边的互联网+教辅专家 选修⑧Unit3单元主题语篇训练 1.阅读理解 It can be easy to brush off certain events as small matters that don't require attention- but when the safety of dozens of airplane passengers was on the line,this NASA engineer decided to speak up. Rumaasha Maasha was preparing to fly from Huntsville to Colorado back in January when he spotted a liquid leak from his window seat on the wing. "Normally,if it's a wet day,you'll see vortices (off the wing.About 1,000 feet off the ground,I started seeing something white and thought,Maybe we're just hitting some humidity ()Well,after a while it was still doing it,and that's when I knew something was up.I looked closer and immediately realized that we were losing fuel."Maasha also knew that as the plane increased in altitude,the situation would get worse. "I gestured for the flight attendant to come over and fortunately she was very attentive,he said."She called the crew and the key thing is that she did this as we were still climbing up.Within a minute or two,they reduced speed and leveled off.The fuel leak diminished immediately when they slowed down." Much to the anger of the passengers,the plane returned to the Huntsville airport,but upon finding out the reason for the return-and the hero behind it-some of the passengers made friends with Maasha. Maasha's experience with NASA wasn't the only thing that came in handy that day.The engineer first fell in love with aviation (as a teenager growing up near an airport in Monrovia,Liberia."Looking back,I guess I had the perfect sets of circumstances to recognize the issue that day,"he said."Since I was a kid,I've always tried to sit in a window seat near the wing,and as I grew up,I was determined to run after my dream during my university years.That's not the first time I've noticed something.I'm sure it won't be the last.” 语篇解读：本文是一篇记叙文。一位工程师发现飞机机翼处漏油，及时地向机组人员 报告信息。飞机紧急返航迫降，挽救了大家的生命。原来，这名工程师不但有相关的工作 经验，而且自小就培养了认真观察的习惯。本文旨在告诉我们要养成认真观察的习惯，这 在生死攸关时可能