2016届高考英语二轮复习精练：完形填空（24）_高考复习指南

　　. “Mayday” is an emergency code word

　　around the world in voice communications. You

　　see a war movie in which an airplane has been

　　by rocket fire. The pilot

　　his radio and calls “mayday, mayday, mayday” to tell people that his plane is in danger of

　　to the ground.

　　Mayday has

　　to do with the month of May.

　　, it comes from the French expressions “venez m’aider,” or “m’aidez”.The mayday call

　　was created by Frederick Stanley Mockford in 1923. Mockford,

　　was a senior radio officer at Croydon Airport in London, was asked to

　　a word that would indicate distress (遇难) and would easily be understood by all the pilots and ground staff in time of

　　. It was

　　much of the traffic at the time was between Croydon and Le Bourget Airport in Paris that he

　　the word “Mayday” from the French “m’aider” (venez m’aider ) meaning “come help me ”.

　　Today, many groups use the word to mean a

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