China's first independently developed passenger jet will take off on its maiden flight in the year_____.
參考答案:应该是ahead
ahead这里当副词，意思是将来的
例句：he couldn't bear to think of the lonely year ahead
他无法忍受想像将来孤独的日子
China's first independently
developed passenger jet will take off on its maiden flight in 2008.
这个是我在一个新闻里面看到的 绝对真实
China’s first independently developed passenger jet will take off on its maiden flight in 2008.
The 70-seater ARJ21 turbofan aircraft is due to make it’s first flight in March 2008 after being fully assembled by the end of next year.
The plane, slated to run regional lines and now being built by the China Aviation Industry Corporation I (AVIC I), will become available to buyers in September 2009, said the company’s President Liu Gaozhuo at a working meeting in Beijing.
He added that the corporation aims to produce 11 ARJ21s a year by 2010, taking a lion’s share of the world’s fiercely-competitive civil aviation market.
Design work began on the aircraft in March 2002.
AVIC I Senior Vice-President Yang Yuzhong said the plane entered the final trial production stage yesterday, having already completed a feasibility study, preliminary development, and development period.
Zhang Yunchuan, head of the Commission of Science Technology and Industry for National Defence (COSTIND), said more than 40 orders have already been placed for ARJ21s, despite production having yet to begin.
