A few years ago, my younger brother and I went to Norfolk, Virginian by plane.__1__, before we took off,we heard the pilot's voice throughout the plane, “sorry, ladies and gentlemen. We have no__2__on the plane. We have a generator(发电机) ,and we are going to__3__the engines with it. We will__4__in the air and head to Norfolk, and see what happens.”
See what happens? We are going to get up in the air, and see what happens? At this point, one woman started crying.“Oh, no! We are going to__5__!”There were sighs of desperation and__6__spreading throughout the plane,and we hadn't even__7__yet. Thirty minutes passed and we were still__8__there. Then the voice of the pilot came over again,“ Ladies and gentlemen, I know you are__9__, so we are. We only have one engine going right now, and it is working double time.”