Номер 7, страница 22 - гдз по английскому языку 8 класс учебник Комарова, Ларионова

Unit two.

Reading.

Vanished.

The mystery of Dan Cooper.

Exercise seven.

I'll never forget that journey.

It was a cold November day, and I was flying from Portland to Seattle to visit my family.

I was reading a magazine on the plane, so I didn't speak to the businessman next to me.

But I remember him very clearly.

He was wearing a smart suit and dark sunglasses, and he wasn't acting strangely or doing anything unusual.

After an hour, he called the flight attendant.

He talked quietly to her and opened his briefcase, but I didn't see what was inside.

Next he got up and followed her to the front of the plane, and he didn't return to his seat for the rest of the journey.

Anyway, we arrived safely in Seattle, and all the passengers got off the plane.

At least, that is what we thought happened.

I only learned the truth the next day when I read the newspaper headlines.

In fact, the plane didn't stay in Seattle, but it flew to Mexico.

Apparently, the man in the suit, Dan Cooper, was a hijacker.

He told the flight attendant that he had a bomb in his briefcase, and he demanded two hundred thousand dollars and four parachutes.

When the plane landed in Seattle, the pilot got the money and parachutes.

Then the hijacker forced the plane to fly to Mexico.

Suddenly, Dan Cooper put on his parachute and opened the door of the plane.

Then he jumped with all the money.

What happened next?

Nobody knows.

Perhaps he landed badly and died. Perhaps he jumped well and survived.

Dan Cooper simply disappeared.

The hijacking of Northwest Orient Airlines Flight three zero five from Portland to Seattle is a true story.

One year after it happened, in nineteen seventy-one, airports in the USA started to use X-ray machines.