A. important B. wonderful C. unusual D. serious B. Concorde’s Birthday CONCORDE, the world’s fastest traveler plane, will soon be over 33 years old. It first 1 on 2 March, 1969 in France. Concorde was developed 2 both France and Britain. From 1956 these two countries had a 3 of a supersonictraveler plane. In 1962 they started to 4 together on the plan. The plane 5 over 1.5 billion pounds to develop. It is the most tested plane in the history. It 6 over 5,000 hours of testing. Concorde flies at twice the speed of 7 . This means that it 8 only 3 hours 25 minutes to fly between London and New York, compare with 7-8 hours in other traveler planes. 9 the five-hour time difference between the USA and Britain, it is 10 to travel west on Concorde and arrive in New York before you leave London! You can catch the 10:30a.m. 11 from London, Heathrow and start work in New York an hour 12 ! Concorde is much used by business people and film stars. Each Concorde is built 13 a cost of 55 million pounds. Twenty have been built 14 . Air France and British Airway 15 the most. They each have seven planes. 【查看更多】
