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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
About this story
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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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HSK 1. Common noun; appears throughout the script (一架小飞机).
HSK 1. Used in 飞机上 (on the plane) and 上去 (go up).
HSK 1. Used with numbers: 九个人 (nine people).
HSK 1. 车里 means 'inside the car'.
HSK 1. Used for past negation: 男人没有死 (the man did not die).
HSK 1. Time word; 星期天早上 = Sunday morning.
HSK 1. 外面很冷 = It was very cold outside.
HSK 1. Used with measurements: 三万五千英尺高.
HSK 3 (beyond HSK 1). 烧起来了 = caught fire.
HSK 4 (beyond HSK 1). 七个人是乘客 = seven people were passengers.
Beyond HSK 1. An urgent cry for help: 喊救命 = shout for help.
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。
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
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。
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
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