摘要：這里要和打擊分享的雅思閱讀素材叫“The moments that made me love flying，讓你愛上飛行的瞬間”，光聽題目就會覺得這是一篇很浪漫的文章呢！如果還能幫你提升一下雅思閱讀能力，就更好了呢，一起來看看吧！

今天分享的雅思閱讀素材名字叫做“讓你愛上飛行的瞬間”。是的，你沒有看錯，今天這里分享的就是一篇很有情懷的文章。千萬別覺得雅思備考是件超級boring的事情，其實看完這篇文章你會發現，雅思備考也可以很浪漫呢！跟我一起，浪起來！

As adults, we often forget the magic of flying. But what it brings to our lives, our perspectives and our outlooks is undeniably the stuff of dreams.

(From BBC, 20 October 2015)

One hectic(忙亂的) morning, early in my marriage, I was driving my father-in-law to the airport. While navigating(航行) the snarling(咆哮的) highway traffic, my mind looped(回環;糾結) through to-do lists, calculating(盤算;計算)how long it would take to drop him off, say goodbye and make it cross-town to the office. Then a jet glided silently over the road like a giant heron(鷺), about to touch down at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport.

"It's magic,” my father-in-law said, interrupting my restless thoughts. I looked at him, confused.

Here was a doctor who lectured at colleges and had visited more than 100 countries. He understood better than I the Bernoulli principle(伯努利原則) that keeps planes in the air; how the miracle of flight is actually no miracle at all but a simple physics equation(方程式;等式). It definitely wasn’t magic.

But thinking back now, I realize he was at least partially right. While flying might not be magic, it’s certainly magical. (飛行雖然也許稱不上魔幻，卻肯定稱得上神奇。)What it brings to our lives, our perspectives and our outlooks is undeniably the stuff of dreams. (飛行給我們的生活、視角和觀感帶來的無疑似夢境一樣的東西。)

But too often, we I forget.

I read a tweet a few months ago that struck a little too close to home.(幾個月前我讀到一條推特，真的說到點子上了。)

“You know you’re grown-up,” it said, “when you no longer want a window seat.”

And too often in recent years, I've found myself sweet-talking gate agents to land a coveted(覬覦，想要)aisle seat on the exit row, forgetting the wonders travelling at near the speed of sound. But occasionally, when the wi-fi’s out or my laptop battery is depleted(用完，枯竭), I remember to look.

One night sticks out to me. I was heading home from California and connecting in Texas after a challenging work trip. Delay piled up on delay as storms marched across the region. When we finally took off, hours late, it was pushing midnight. The crew dimmed the cabin lights and most of my fellow passengers were asleep in minutes (or at least closing their eyes and wishing they were).

I was about to follow suit(緊隨其后，效仿) when a flash of light caught my attention. The thunderstorm that had snarled air traffic that night still had some life. Our pilot had routed us 100 miles to the north of the weather system, providing bleacher seats(露天座位)for the performance.

Clouds sparkled as they shot silent bolts of lightning to the ground. They glowed like lanterns, popping with colours in a cosmic light show. I stared into the darkness and noticed the flight attendant had kneeled next to my bulkhead seat to watch the show.

For the next half-hour we were riveted(鉚釘，被釘住，醉心), not saying a word as we sailed through the night. How many hundreds of thousands of miles had she flown? I didn't ask. But she could still appreciate the wondrous moment – and on that night, so could I.

I’m invariably(總是)rewarded when I remember to look. The world seems to make more sense from up high. Seeing the great expanse of the Earth divided into neat patterns – fields checker boarding the landscape and roads racing to the horizon – brings symmetry(對稱)to the messiness of everyday life.

I've leaned past snoozing seatmates to marvel at snow-covered mountain peaks gliding past the window, and been hypnotized(使催眠，著迷) by a glowing Los Angeles night, the undulating(連綿的，起伏的) topography(表面，地形) sparkling like a star-studded cape. Then there's the unexpected glory of a sunrise that arrives hours too early when you fly overseas, the majestic rays illuminating(照亮)the horizon of another continent. (當你飛行在海上，還有那日出明輝，提前數小時就不期而至，噴薄的光線照亮了遠處另一個大陸的水平線。)This moment of discovery unfolds every dawn for tens of thousands of passengers, but few, I would venture, ever stop to think about it.

               
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