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关于英语故事及翻译阅读 改变高度 Rebecca had decided that her best chance of getting hired by a company doing geologicalsurvey work in the Alaskan wilderness was to earn a private license to fly twin-engine planes. 丽贝卡觉得，要想进入在阿拉斯加荒原做地质研究的公司，最好的方式就是拥有操纵双引擎飞机的私家执照。 A few days later she began taking lessons from a wise old bush pilot,highly respectedthroughout the region for his cool and collected ways of dealing with the worst possiblesituations. 几天后她便从师于一位年长而智慧的丛林飞行员。这位丛林飞行员一向以冷静和善于处理极端事件而在这一地区闻名。 After the mandatory ground schooling, at which Rebecca excelled, and during her fourthlesson in the sky,the flight instructor gave her what she thought was a special treat: 丽贝卡在地面控制训练方面做得十分出色。之后，在她第四堂空中飞行课上，飞行指挥员给了她一次她所认为的特殊待遇： Taking his hands off the yoke, he turned the flight controls over to her. 他将全部飞行指挥权交给了她。 There she was, just as she haddreamed, sitting tall in the copilots seat with the flight stick firmly in her hands. 于是，如同丽贝卡所梦寐以求的那样，她高高地坐在副驾驶的位置上，双手紧紧握着操纵杆。 Rebecca felt as though she was literally on cloud at least, until a scant moment later when shefound herself rudely awakened from her dream. 丽贝卡觉得自己至少已经升上云端了，但紧接着她便从梦幻中惊醒了。 In the distance, through the windshield, right in the path of the plane, and seeming to haveappeared out of nowhere, a huge snow-capped mountain lay dead ahead. 她从挡风玻璃里看见，就在飞机的航线里，远处一座白雪覆盖的大山不偏不倚地出现在正前方。 Transfixed by its sheer mass, Rebecca found herself as frozen at the stick as were the icedand craggy peaks stretched out before her. 丽贝卡完全被这座大山惊呆了，她感觉自己怔怔看着陡峭的冰山在眼前铺开，身体僵在操纵杆前动弹不得。 She was headed straight for them! 她正向群峰冲去! All along the wise old instructor was watching her closely, studying her reactions. 整个过程中，那位年长睿智的驾驶员一直在仔细观察她的反应， In fact, he had turned the controls over to her for just this test now taking place. 事实上，他让她操作驾驶，正是为了用眼前这一幕来进行测试。 He waited until the last moment he could, and was just about to take over again, when Rebeccasnapped out of her fe