Charles Plumb, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate, was a jet fighter pilot in Vietnam. After 75 combat missions, his plane was
by a surface-to-air missile. Plumb was
and spent six years in prison in Vietnam. He survived and now
about lessons learned from that experience.
One day, Plumb and his wife were sitting in a restaurant when a man at another table came up and said, "You're Plumb! You
jet fighters in Vietnam from the aircraft carrier (航空母舰) Kitty Hawk . You were
!"
"How in the world did you know that?" asked Plumb.
"I
your parachute," the man replied. Plumb gasped（倒吸一口气） in surprise and
.The man pumped his hand and said, "I guess it worked!"
Plumb assured him, "It
did—if your chute hadn't worked, I wouldn't be here today."
Plumb couldn't sleep that night，thinking about that man. He says, "I wondered how many times I might have passed him
the Kitty Hawk. I wondered how many times I might have seen him and not even said 'Good morning, how are you', or anything
, you see, I was a fighter pilot and he was just a
."
Plumb thought of the many days the sailor had spent on a long wooden table in the bowels（深处）of the ship
working on each chute, holding in his hands each time the
of someone he didn't know.
Plumb asks his
, "Who's packing your
? Everyone has someone who provides what they need to make it
the day." Plumb also says that he needed many kinds of parachutes when his plane was shot down—he needed his
parachute, his mental parachute, his emotional parachute, and his spiritual parachute. He called on all these
before reaching safety. His experience reminds us all to
and be kind to people who pack our daily parachutes, and strengthen us to go through
times.
| 小题1: | | A．followed | B．destroyed | C．spied | D．seen |
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| 小题2: | | A．released | B．wounded | C．captured | D．killed |
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| 小题3: | | A．lectures | B．gives | C． studies | D．hear |
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| 小题4: | | A．repaired | B．made | C．flew | D．cleaned |
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| 小题5: | | A．taken down | B．looked down | C．set down | D．shot down |
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| 小题6: | | A．bought | B．checked | C．found | D．packed |
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| 小题7: | | A．gratefully | B．suspiciously | C．happily | D．sadly |
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| 小题8: | | A．almost | B．surely | C．narrowly | D．nearly |
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| 小题10: | | A．so | B．because | C．unless | D．though |
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| 小题11: | | A．sailor | B． captain | C．pilot | D．technician |
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| 小题12: | | A．unwillingly | B．immediately | C．worriedly | D．carefully |
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| 小题13: | | A．death | B．fortune | C．fate | D．chance |
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| 小题14: | | A．wife | B．children | C．sailors | D．audience |
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| 小题15: | | A．luggage | B．bag | C．parachute | D．future |
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| 小题16: | | A．through | B．to | C．up to | D．as |
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| 小题17: | | A．psychological | B．physical | C． imaginary | D．safe |
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| 小题18: | | A．spirits | B．emotions | C．supports | D．people |
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| 小题19: | | A．award | B．recognize | C．reward | D．help |
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| 小题20: | | A．happy | B．tough | C．comfortable | D．cosy |
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