首页
登录
职称英语
After finally boarding the faulty plane in the Far East, the passengers all felt
After finally boarding the faulty plane in the Far East, the passengers all felt
游客
2025-01-09
40
管理
问题
After finally boarding the faulty plane in the Far East, the passengers all felt ______.
Man: ...anyway, I felt pretty upset, I can tell you!
Woman: Well, something even worse happened to some friends of a colleague of mine in New York. The husband was on an extended business trip and the idea was that his wife would come over in the middle of it to spend a long weekend with him. He was flying in from Boston, and the wife from Europe and they were going to meet up on the Friday evening and stay the weekend together at one of those very big hotels near Central Park.
Man: Yeah.
Woman: Well, the hotel computer had got file first letter of their name wrong--theft name began with a B (I think it was Berry) but it was spelt on the computer with a P. So the wife arrived at the hotel, gave her name and asked "Has ray husband arrived yet?" and the reception clerk looked her up on the computer, said "No, not yet" and so she said she’ d wait in their room and she was shown to the room. Well, then about half an hour later the husband arrived and gave this name and spelt it out carefully to the reception clerk and asked "Has my wife arrived yet?" and she looked up the name on the computer and said "No, not yet", so he said he’ d wait in the room and the clerk promised to send his wife up to him when she arrived and he was shown up to a different room. So he turned on the TV and started waiting.
Man: Oh...
Woman: Well, they both waited for a couple of hours and then the wife called reception, was told her husband still hadn’t arrived. So she went down to the restaurant and had a meal and then, being fired, you know, she went to bed. The husband was not quite hungry so, after calling reception and being told his wife still hadn’t arrived, he went down to have his dinner, and then went to bed. Well, the next day, they narrowly missed each other at breakfast, so they decided there was no point in sitting around waiting, so they both went out shopping or sightseeing, missed each other again that evening and didn’t finally meet up again fill the next afternoon. By this time the husband had to fly off to Washington for a meeting first thing on Monday!
Man: Oh, that’s amazing] It’s always strange in a new city. I... I remember once I was going to a conference in Norway, I landed at Oslo Airport and as I didn’t know the city, I picked up a whole lot of leaflets and a street map at the airport before catching the bus into town.
Woman: Mhm.
Man: Well, one of the leaflets was quite fat, about 100 pages long and it was called "Where to Eat in Oslo", so I started looking at it to find a nice restaurant to go to that evening --I always prefer to eat out rather than in my hotel.
Woman: Yeah.
Man: And I soon realized that the same restaurant was being described again. I looked all the way through the leaflet and every page was a description of the same restaurant! There were no others in there! 100 pages all about the same restaurant!
Woman: Oh, what was the name of file restaurant?
Man: I can’t remember!
Woman: Oh, that reminds me of something. A colleague of mine was in Sweden. He was at the end of a tough series of meetings in Stockholm and about to fly back home to London. Well, he checked his suitcase in and went through to tile departure lounge, had a drink and caught his plane back to Heathrow. Unfortunately, the check-in clerk had put the wrong label on his case and it had the tag for a different flight on it...
Man: So he went to London and his luggage went somewhere else?
Woman: No, no, no, no, worse than that. They did a security check on all the luggage that was being loaded onto the other flight and found that there was no passenger name to match that particular suitcase. So they very carefully took the case off to the far comer of the airport and the security police blew it up!
Man: Oh!
Woman: Luckily, it only contained dirty clothes and a toothbrush and stuff like that. And he got fully compensated by the airline.
Man: Er... I remember my boss telling me about something that happened a few years ago when he was somewhere in the Far East anyway. There was a long delay at the airport. So they all settled down for a long wait, feeling reassured that they weren’t having to fly in a faulty plane.
Woman: Yeah.
Man: Two hours later there was another announcement, "We have found a new plane. But the new plane is more sick than the first one, so we will take the first one." And they were all escorted to the first plane and it took off but they all felt very nervous and everyone started knocking back the gin and whisky. Anyway eventually they arrived at their destination and by this time everyone had managed to forget that the plane was "sick", but instead of landing, the plane kept circling round and round and round. Everyone started to get worried again. And then a msn in uniform came out of the little door leading to the flight deck with a screwdriver. He walked halfway down the aisle, stopped and lifted up the carpet. Then he raised a metal flap and reached inside with the screw driver. There was a loud click and then they heard the landing gear going down. The man in uniform went back to the flight deck. The plane made its final approach and landed safely. As they all came down the steps, you could literally see everyone still shaking with fear.
选项
A、nervous and worried
B、sorry but helpless
C、sick and scared
D、cheated and angry
答案
A
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://www.tihaiku.com/zcyy/3904976.html
相关试题推荐
ThenationalChristianChurchinScotlandis______whichwasnotfinallyestabl
Thearmsracethathasdarkenedourcenturywithfearandperilmayfinallyb
ThestoryinvolvesashipwreckontheWestcoastofAfrica.Thepassengerson
ThestoryinvolvesashipwreckontheWestcoastofAfrica.Thepassengerson
ThestoryinvolvesashipwreckontheWestcoastofAfrica.Thepassengerson
ThestoryinvolvesashipwreckontheWestcoastofAfrica.Thepassengerson
ThestoryinvolvesashipwreckontheWestcoastofAfrica.Thepassengerso
ThestoryinvolvesashipwreckontheWestcoastofAfrica.Thepassengerso
ThestoryinvolvesashipwreckontheWestcoastofAfrica.Thepassengerso
ThestoryinvolvesashipwreckontheWestcoastofAfrica.Thepassengerso
随机试题
Howuseful(有用的)Englishis!______languageEnglishis![br]favoritesport
HowtoPickaCareerinBusinessPickingtherightcareeri
Whiteneighborhoodsarebecomingdarkerin【1】______andmoreexpensive.【1】__
依据公路水运工程淘汰危及生产安全施工工艺、设备和材料目录,下列淘汰类型属于禁止的
为防止电气线路因绝缘损坏引起火灾,宜设置哪一种保护?()A.短路保护 B.
精子获能
为患者导尿时手套不慎破裂,正确的处理是A.用酒精消毒手套表面 B.用无菌胶布将
预防小儿结核的有效措施是A.抗生素预防 B.药物预防 C.隔离患儿 D.化
根据《民法典》,下列关于建设用地使用权表述中,不正确的是()。(2011年
滴眼剂的给药途径属于A.腔道给药 B.黏膜给药 C.注射给药 D.皮肤给药
最新回复
(
0
)