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美国佛州李尔喷气机坠毁 九人全部遇难
Learjet 60 Crashes in Palm Beach County, Florida, Killing All Nine On Board
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HSK 2: A Learjet 60 flying from Austin, Texas, to the Bahamas crashed near Cresthaven, Florida, killing all nine people on board.
This is an HSK 3 Chinese listening episode that runs about 3 minutes. The full Mandarin script is shown with tap-for-pinyin and a line-by-line English translation, so you can listen and read at once — comprehensible input in the sense of Stephen Krashen's i+1 theory. It teaches 12 key vocabulary words such as 飞机、死、地方 and walks through 6 grammar patterns, each explained in English with examples. The same news story is retold at 4 difficulty levels — use the level selector above to find the version that is challenging but still understandable for you.
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English transcript reference
At noon on Sunday, a small plane crashed onto a road in the United States.
There were nine people on the plane, and all nine died.
The incident happened in a place in Florida.
The place where the plane came down is a residential area, and many people live there.
The concrete on the road was smashed into a very large crater.
Someone used a phone to film what it looked like at the time.
In the video, the plane falls downward very fast.
It hits the ground and turns into a big fireball.
Florida's governor said this is too terrible.
He also said it looked like a missile falling down.
A missile is a kind of flying weapon; when it hits something, it explodes.
The governor also said the plane broke apart, and many small pieces flew very far.
This plane is a kind of business plane.
Business planes are not big; they are generally used to take company people to do business.
The plane took off from Austin, Texas.
It left the airport there at 9:37 in the morning.
The plane was going to an airport in the Bahamas.
But the plane came down in Florida.
At that time it was around 12:50 noon.
Who the people on the plane were, at that time no one knew yet.
US Transportation Secretary Duffy said these people died.
He asked everyone to pray for these people's families.
To pray means to talk to God and ask God to help people.
The governor said that apart from the people on the plane, he had not heard of anyone else being hurt.
Near the place where the plane came down, there is a mobile home area.
The houses there can be moved, and many people live in this kind of house.
For safety, these people were sent to live in another place.
The investigation is still going on, so for the time being they cannot go home.
The company that makes this kind of plane said they are very sad.
The company also said they will help the government investigate together.
The US department in charge of planes said the investigation has already begun.
A department that investigates plane crashes will come to look into this matter.
The person flying the plane had spoken with people on the ground.
At that time, the plane had not yet come down.
He said there was some ice in the sky, and also some air currents.
When there are air currents, the air moves very fast, and the plane shakes.
But he said the plane could still fly.
These words are only the situation at the time, not the cause of the accident.
Up to now, why the plane came down, no one knows yet.
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What vocabulary does this episode teach?
词汇HSK 2. Common noun; 一架飞机 (one plane).
HSK 2. 死了 means 'died'; 全都死了 = 'all died'.
HSK 2. 一个地方 = 'a place'; 这个地方 = 'this place'.
HSK 2. 用手机拍 = 'film with a phone'.
HSK 2. 很快地往下掉 = 'falls down very fast'.
HSK 2. 一个机场 = 'an airport'.
HSK 2. 早上九点三十七分 = '9:37 in the morning'.
HSK 2. 造飞机的公司 = 'the company that makes the plane'.
HSK 2. 很多人 = 'many people'.
居民 'resident' + 区 'area'. 一片居民区 = 'a residential area'.
路上的水泥 = 'the concrete on the road'.
一枚导弹 (measure word 枚). 像一枚导弹 = 'like a missile'.
* beyond level超纲词
What grammar patterns appear in this episode?
语法被 + Verb + Complement
Passive construction: the subject receives the action.
路上的水泥被砸出一个很大的坑。
这些人被送到了别的地方住。
为了 + Noun/Verb Phrase
Expresses purpose: 'in order to / for the sake of'.
为了安全，这些人被送到了别的地方住。
看起来像 + Noun
Expresses appearance: 'it looks like ...'.
看起来像一枚导弹往下掉。
除了 A，没有 B
Means 'apart from A, there is no B'.
除了飞机上的人，没有听说别人受伤。
是 ... 的 + Noun
Noun-modifying 的 clause: 'a kind of ...'.
这架飞机是一种商务飞机。
Proper nouns
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