Plane Crash at CITIC Tower in Beijing
北京中信大廈發生飛機墜毀事故
Introduction
A small plane hit the CITIC Tower in Beijing on June 26. The pilot died and some people were hurt.
6月26日有一架小型飛機撞上北京的中信大廈，飛行員不幸身亡，並造成部分人員受傷。
Main Body
A 66-year-old man named Liu flew the plane. He left the airport and flew the wrong way. He stopped talking to the airport workers. Then the plane hit the glass of the tall building.
一名 66 歲名為劉的男子駕駛該飛機。他離開機場後飛行方向錯誤，且停止與機場工作人員聯繫。隨後飛機撞上了該高層建築的玻璃。
Mr. Liu lived alone and had no job. He felt very sad and worried. He wrote in his diary that he wanted to die. The police say he was sick in his mind.
劉先生獨居且沒有工作。他感到非常悲傷與憂慮。他在日記中寫道他想自殺。警方表示其精神狀態不穩定。
Thirteen people got hurt, but they are okay now. The government did not talk for 24 hours. Then they told the public about the crash. They also deleted posts about the crash on the internet.
共有 13 人受傷，但目前均已無大礙。政府在 24 小時內未對外發言，隨後才向公眾公布此次事故。他們同時刪除了網路上關於此次墜機的貼文。
Conclusion
The pilot died at the building. The government says he crashed because he was very sad.
飛行員在建築物墜毀身亡。政府表示他因極度悲傷而導致墜機。
Vocabulary Learning
🕒 The 'Past Action' Pattern
Look at these words from the story: died, hit, flew, left, stopped, lived.
All these words tell us the story is finished. In English, we change the end of the word to show it happened yesterday or in the past.
Two ways to change words:
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The Easy Way (+ed):
- stop stopped
- live lived
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The 'Change Everything' Way (Irregular):
- fly flew
- hit hit (stays the same!)
- leave left
💡 A2 Pro Tip: If you see a word ending in -ed, it is almost always a past action. If you see flew or left, you are talking about a memory, not right now.