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里尔喷气机在佛罗里达坠毁,九人全部遇难

Learjet Crashes in Florida, Killing All Nine Aboard

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HSK 1: A Learjet crashes in Florida, killing nine people, including pilot Jeff and a 20-year-old co-pilot. Investigators focus on weather and icing.

This is an HSK 2 Chinese listening episode that runs about 2 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、上、人 and walks through 7 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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一架小飞机从天上直着掉下来。
它掉在佛罗里达的一条街上。
飞机一碰到地上就烧起来了。
飞机上的九个人全死了。
街上有一辆车,车里的男人受了伤。
男人没有死。
星期天早上,飞机从得克萨斯起飞。
飞机要去巴哈马。
飞机上有七个人是乘客。
飞机飞到三万五千英尺高。
外面很冷,飞机上结了冰。
飞机一会儿上去,一会儿下来。
差了七百英尺。
开飞机的人想飞到三万七千英尺。
开飞机的人叫杰夫。
他跟地上的人喊:救命。
杰夫喊:我们一分钟下来一万英尺。
他又说:飞机太快了。
他说:我们一分钟下来两万英尺。
还有一个开飞机的人,她是副驾驶。
副驾驶今年二十岁。
副驾驶说:飞机歪了六十度。
她说:我们没有时间了。
喊了救命以后,过了一分钟。
飞机就掉下来了。
飞机还没到地上,就分成了好几块。
飞机的东西掉了一地,有半英里长。
查飞机的人来了,一共二十个人。
调查委员会说,最想查的是天气。
死的人里,有杰夫和副驾驶。
飞机上还有一位乘客和他的家人。
旁边有很多房子,房子里有人住。
六百人从家里出来,去了别的地方。
调查委员会说,这种飞机以前也出过事。
他们要看看,这一次是不是也一样。
English transcript reference

A small plane fell straight down from the sky.

It fell onto a street in Florida.

As soon as the plane hit the ground, it caught fire.

All nine people on the plane died.

There was a car on the street; the man in the car was injured.

The man did not die.

On Sunday morning, the plane took off from Texas.

The plane was going to the Bahamas.

There were seven passengers on the plane.

The plane flew up to 35,000 feet high.

It was very cold outside, and ice formed on the plane.

The plane went up for a while, then down for a while.

It was off by 700 feet.

The pilot wanted to fly up to 37,000 feet.

The pilot's name was Jeff.

He shouted to the people on the ground: Help!

Jeff shouted: We are descending 10,000 feet a minute.

He also said: The plane is too fast.

He said: We are descending 20,000 feet a minute.

There was another pilot; she was the co-pilot.

The co-pilot is twenty years old this year.

The co-pilot said: The plane is tilted 60 degrees.

She said: We have no time left.

After shouting for help, a minute passed.

The plane fell down.

Before the plane reached the ground, it broke into several pieces.

The plane's things fell all over the ground, for half a mile.

People who investigate planes came; there were twenty people in total.

The investigation committee said what they most want to investigate is the weather.

Among the dead were Jeff and the co-pilot.

There was also a passenger and his family on the plane.

There were many houses nearby, and people live in the houses.

Six hundred people came out of their homes and went somewhere else.

The investigation committee said this kind of plane has had accidents before.

They want to see whether this time is the same.

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What vocabulary does this episode teach?

词汇
fēijīairplane

HSK 1. Common noun; appears throughout the script (一架小飞机).

shàngon; up

HSK 1. Used in 飞机上 (on the plane) and 上去 (go up).

rénperson; people

HSK 1. Used with numbers: 九个人 (nine people).

chēcar; vehicle

HSK 1. 车里 means 'inside the car'.

méiyǒunot have; did not

HSK 1. Used for past negation: 男人没有死 (the man did not die).

zǎoshangmorning

HSK 1. Time word; 星期天早上 = Sunday morning.

lěngcold

HSK 1. 外面很冷 = It was very cold outside.

gāohigh; tall

HSK 1. Used with measurements: 三万五千英尺高.

shāoto burn

HSK 3 (beyond HSK 1). 烧起来了 = caught fire.

chéngkèpassenger

HSK 4 (beyond HSK 1). 七个人是乘客 = seven people were passengers.

jiùmìnghelp!; save a life

Beyond HSK 1. An urgent cry for help: 喊救命 = shout for help.

fùjiàshǐco-pilot

Beyond HSK 1. 副 = deputy; 驾驶 = to pilot.

* beyond level超纲词

What grammar patterns appear in this episode?

语法

一……就……

Means 'as soon as... then...'. The action after 就 happens immediately after the action after 一.

飞机一碰到地上就烧起来了。

Place + 有 + Object↗

Expresses existence: 'there is/are something at a place'.

飞机上有七个人是乘客。

Number + Measure Word + Noun

Chinese nouns require a measure word between a number and the noun (个 for people, 条 for streets, 辆 for cars).

九个人

一条街

一辆车

一会儿……一会儿……↗

Means 'one moment..., another moment...', showing alternating actions.

飞机一会儿上去,一会儿下来。

还没……就……

Means 'before even..., already...'. 还没 marks an action not yet completed when another happens.

飞机还没到地上,就分成了好几块。

是……的↗

Emphatic construction highlighting a detail (often time, place, or manner). Here 最想查的是天气 emphasizes what they most want to investigate.

最想查的是天气。

以前也……过

The 过 particle marks past experience: 'has done something before'. 以前也...过 = also did ... before.

这种飞机以前也出过事。

Proper nouns

专有名词
佛罗里达FóluólǐdáFlorida得克萨斯DékèsàsīTexas巴哈马Bāhāmǎthe Bahamas杰夫JiéfūJeff

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