Аэропорт / Аirport

Научно-образовательная: иностранные языки

Город, где находится крупнейший аэропорт, неожиданно накрывает снежный буран, поэтому все службы работают в экстренном режиме. Переживания и конфликты героев, находящихся взаперти, по своей силе оказываются сравнимы со штормом, бушующим снаружи.Для удобства читателя текст сопровождается комментариями и кратким словарем.Предназначается для продолжающих изучать английский язык (уровень 4 – Upper-Intermediate).

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Part One 6:30 P.M. – 8:30 P.M. (CST) 1 At half-past six on a Friday evening in January, Lincoln International Airport, Illinois, was functioning, though with difficulty, because of the meanest, roughest winter storm in half a dozen years. The storm had lasted three days. A United Air Lines food truck, loaded with two hundred dinners, was lost in snow somewhere on the airport perimeter. A search for the truck in storm had so far failed. Out on the airfield, runway three zero was out of use. It was blocked by an A'ereo-Mexican jet—a Boeing 707. Its wheels were deeply mired in the ground beneath snow. In the main passenger terminal, chaos predominated. Terminal waiting areas were jammed with thousands of passengers from delayed or canceled flights. The wonder was, Mel Bakersfeld, airport general manager, reflected, that anything was continuing to operate at all. At the airport, maintenance snow crews were nearing exhaustion. Within the past few hours several men had been ordered home over-fatigued.