大学英语六级听力710分考试成功指南 第七期

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Passage 1 

On Sept. 11, the nation’s aviation system quickly and safely almost 4,500 planes that were in the air when the terrorist attacks took place. How was this (S1)_____? What was it like inside air traffic control centers and at airline (S2)_____? How was the decision made to land all the planes? And how did controllers execute it?

Some USA TODAY reporters spent seven months (S3)_____ more than 100 people involved in key decisions that day. The reporters traveled to New York, Washington, Chicago, Texas and Atlanta.

The (S4)_____, thoughts and quotes in the stories are based on interviews with (S5)_____ or with sources who had (S6)_____ to tape recordings¹. Accounts of the day’s events were (S7)_____. (S8)_____________________________________________________________________.

(S9)____________________________________. A key source was the FAA radar² data from the Traffic Situation Display. The system tracks all aircraft in the United States and Canada that have filed flight plans: (S10)__________________________________. It also estimates the location of planes over the Atlantic and Pacific oceans flying to the and from North America.

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(S1) accomplished³

(S2) headquarters

(S3) interviewing

(S4) 

scenes

(S5) participants

(S6) access

(S7) verified

(S8) Reporters 

and editors also scrutinized⁴ hundreds of pages of records, including transcripts 

of radio calls with the four hijacked⁵ jets and a long kept by the Federal 

Aviation Administration.

(S9) USA TODAY compiled and analyzed⁶ data from 

several sources.

(S10) commercial jets, private planes, cargo⁷ jets and 

military aircraft.