1、Unit1,Watch the video and answer the following questions.,1. Whats the building that was hit? 2. What was the event? When did it happen?,Pre-reading Activities - Audiovisual supplement 1,Audiovisual supplement,Cultural information,The building is the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York
2、 City.,It was one of the 9/11 attacks. It happened on September 11, 2001.,Pre-reading Activities - Audiovisual supplement 2,Audiovisual supplement,Cultural information,News: Officer A: News:,We have unconfirmed reports this morning that a plane has crashed into one of the towers of the World Trade C
3、enter. CNN Center right now . Holy shit! . work on this story, calling our sources and trying to figure out exactly what happened, but, clearly, something relatively devastating happening this morning there. Were going to join another one of our New York affiliates for their live coverage. Here at t
4、he top of this tower, theres a huge, gaping hole, flames still inside.,Video Script1,Audiovisual supplement,Cultural information,Video Script2,Audiovisual supplement,Cultural information,Officer B: Officer C: Officer B: Officer D:Officer E: Officer B:,Can you believe this? What schmuck would fly a p
5、lane into the Trade Center? Maybe they ran out of gas or something. Yeah, Colovito. Right. Maybe some jerk-off forgot which lever to pull on his twin-engine. Thats not a small plane. Hell, no.,Video Script3,Audiovisual supplement,Cultural information,Police Chief: Team Leader:,All right, listen up!
6、Let me have your attention here! Theyre telling us its a commuter plane. Tower One is being evacuated as a precaution. Theyve asked us to send a team down to assist. Sergeant McLoughlin. Ive got a list of names here. Step out when you hear it. Were going downtown.,Good evening. Today, our fellow cit
7、izens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts. The victims were in airplanes or in their offices: secretaries, business men and women, military and federal workers, moms and dads, friends and neighbors. Thousands of lives were suddenly
8、 ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger. These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat.
9、But they have failed. Our country is strong.,1. President Bushs address to the nation:,Cultural information 1,Audiovisual supplement,Cultural information,A great people has been moved to defend a great nation. Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touc
10、h the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. America was targeted for attack because were the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world. And no one will keep that light from shining. Today, our nation saw evil the very wor
11、st of human nature and we responded with the best of America. With the daring of our rescue workers, with the caring for strangers and neighbors who came to give blood and help in any way they could.,Cultural information 2,Audiovisual supplement,Cultural information,Immediately following the first a
12、ttack, I implemented our governments emergency response plans. Our military is powerful, and its prepared. Our emergency teams are working in New York City and Washington D.C. to help with local rescue efforts. Our first priority is to get help to those who have been injured, and to take every preca
13、ution to protect our citizens at home and around the world from further attacks. The functions of our government continue without interruption. Federal agencies in Washington which had to be evacuated today are reopening for essential personnel tonight and will be open for business tomorrow. Our fin
14、ancial institutions remain strong, and the American economy will be open for business as well.,Cultural information 3,Audiovisual supplement,Cultural information,Cultural information 4,Audiovisual supplement,Cultural information,The search is underway for those who were behind these evil acts. I hav
15、e directed the full resources of our intelligence and law enforcement communities to find those responsible and to bring them to justice. We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them.,I appreciate so very much the members of Congress who have
16、joined me in strongly condemning these attacks. And on behalf of the American people, I thank the many world leaders who have called to,Cultural information 5,Audiovisual supplement,Cultural information,offer their condolences and assistance. America and our friends and allies join with all those wh
17、o want peace and security in the world, and we stand together to win the war against terrorism.Tonight, I ask for your prayers for all those who grieve, for the children whose worlds have been shattered, for all whose sense of safety and security has been threatened. And I pray they will be comforte
18、d by a Power greater than any of us, spoken through the ages in Psalm 23:Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil for you are with me.,Cultural information 6,Audiovisual supplement,Cultural information,This is a day when all Americans from every walk of life unite
19、 in our resolve for justice and peace. America has stood down enemies before, and we will do so this time. None of us will ever forget this day, yet we go forward to defend freedom and all that is good and just in our world.Thank you. Good night. And God bless America!,Cultural information 7,Audiovi
20、sual supplement,Cultural information,2. September 11 attacks,The September 11 attacks (often referred to as September 11th or 9/11) were a series of coordinated suicide attacks by al-Qaeda upon the United States on September 11, 2001. On that morning, 19 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial
21、passenger jet airliners. The,hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing everyone on board and many others working in the buildings. Both buildings collapsed within two hours, destroying nearby buildings and damaging o
22、thers. The,hijackers crashed a third airliner into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C. The fourth plane crashed into a field near Shanksville in rural Pennsylvania after some of its passengers and flight crew attempted to retake control of the plane, which the hijacker
23、s had redirected toward Washington, D.C. There were no survivors from any of the flights.The death toll of the attacks was 2,995, including the 19 hijackers. The overwhelming majority of casualties were civilians, including nationals of over 70 countries. In addition, there is at least one secondary
24、 death one person was ruled by a medical examiner to have died from lung disease due to exposure to dust from the World Trade Centers collapse.,Cultural information 8,Audiovisual supplement,Cultural information,The text describes a particular episode in the disaster that occurred on , 2001 in New Yo
25、rk, in praise of the . It presents people in the attack, who demonstrated great valor trying to .,Global Reading - Main idea,Main idea,Structural analysis,September 11,_,courage and compassion of man,_,three,_,save those who were,in danger and needed help,Structural analysis 1,It tells of peoples pe
26、rception of the WTC.,It describes the initial reaction of people inside the WTC when the building was hit.,It is mainly about how the three men (Mayblum, Ramos and Hong) endeavored to save a heavyset man by their joint efforts.,1. Divide the text into parts by completing the table.,Main idea,Structu
27、ral analysis,It describes the gathering of some of the survivors and the victims wives.,Structural analysis 2,Main idea,Structural analysis,Structural analysis 3,2. What is the function of the last part?,It is a most touching scene. It seems to suggest that the author has, from what is described abo
28、ve, reached the conclusion about the ultimate moral dilemma: “Save yourself, or save another.”,Main idea,Structural analysis,With the building in flames, one man needed help. Another man refused to leave him.,“Weve Been Hit!”,Detailed reading1,Detailed reading,Adam Mayblum used to enjoy watching as
29、storms lashed the windows of his office: You think thats power? Mayblum would scoff. Im on the 87th floor of the World Trade Center. Thats power. The drawstrings on his window shades would appear to sway slightly, but it was an illusion. Although they were 1,040 feet in the sky, The WTC was quite st
30、eady.,1,Detailed reading2-4,When Mayblum felt a devastating rumble on that September morning, he glanced at the drawstrings. They were careening wildly, three feet in either direction.Mayblum would be one of thousands cast into an extraordinary purgatory that morning. While as many as 25,000 would f
31、ind their way to safety, 5,000 would not.For some, it was a matter of geography not just which tower they worked in or on which floor, but in which corner of the building.,Detailed reading,2,3,4,Detailed reading5-7,For some, the choices were as basic as which staircase to use. Others faced the ultim
32、ate moral dilemma: Save yourself, or save another.The confusion inside Adam Mayblums office at May Davis, a financial services firm, lasted just seconds. He knew he needed to get out.He ripped his T-shirt into pieces, soaked the pieces in water and gave them to colleagues to cover their faces. Among
33、 them: Harry Ramos, head trader at May Davis. Mayblum had worked with Ramos off and on for 14 years.,Detailed reading,5,6,7,Detailed reading8-9,Sparks bit at Mayblums ankles as he raced for the stairs. He bolted down two flights before realizing that his trading partner, Hong Zhu, had been left behi
34、nd. He went back upstairs, the whole area now filled with smoke and burning jet fuel.There was no sign of Hong. Mayblum hurried down again and made it to the 78th floor, a transfer lobby where one set of elevators and stairs ended and another began. He saw a reassuring sight; Ramos had waded into th
35、e pandemonium to help panicked workers into a stairwell.,Detailed reading,8,9,Detailed reading10-13,Mayblum continued his descent, the muscles in his calves contracting in spasms. On the 53rd floor, he came across a heavyset man whose legs just wouldnt move anymore.“Do you want to come, or do you wa
36、nt us to send help?” Mayblum shouted.The man asked him to send help. Adam said he would.In the noise, smoke and sparks, Mayblum didnt realize that his friend Hong Zhu was behind him in the stairwell the whole time. When Hong got to the 53rd floor, he came across Harry Ramos. Ramos had stooped to hel
37、p the heavyset man Mayblum had seen earlier. “Ill give you a hand,” Hong said.,Detailed reading,10,11,12,13,Detailed reading14-18,Together, Ramos and Hong helped the man down one more flight to an elevator.“Dont take it,” a Port Authority official screamed.Hong and Ramos tried to send a magazine dow
38、n in the elevator to test its safety. But when they pressed the “down” button, the doors wouldnt close. So Hong decided that he would be the guinea pig instead.He stepped inside, and the doors shut behind him.Hong took the elevator down to the 44th floor, the next transfer lobby. So far, so good. He
39、 pressed “52,” went back up and collected Ramos and the heavyset man.,Detailed reading,14,15,16,17,18,Detailed reading19-23,On 44 Hong and Ramos helped the man toward the last bank of elevators that would take them all the way down.Hong pressed the “down” button again. Nothing. They would have to ta
40、ke the stairs.Ramos and Hong tried to support the man. “One step at a time,” Hong said. They had been trying to get out for an hour and five minutes. They were on 36 when they felt the South Tower collapse.“We really have to move,” Hong said.,Detailed reading,19,20,21,22,23,Detailed reading24-27,The
41、 rumbles of the collapsing tower next door seemed to sap the heavyset man of his last gasps of energy. “I cant do it anymore,” he said, sitting down.Hong and Ramos tried to persuade him to continue. “You dont have to move your legs!” Hong shouted. “Just move your butt. Lets go!” But the man couldnt
42、go on.A fireman ran up to them. Hong expected that he would join in to get the heavy man to move. Instead, the fireman turned to Hong.“Who are you, screaming at him to get out?” the fireman shouted. “You get out!”,Detailed reading,24,25,26,27,Detailed reading28-31,Hong looked at Ramos, who was still
43、 standing with the heavyset man.“Im coming down with you,” Ramos told the man. “Im not going to leave.”“I left,” Hong says sorrowfully. “Alone.”The next day, Adam Mayblum sent an e-mail describing his experience to friends and relatives, who sent it to still others. The e-mail was read by someone in
44、 San Francisco who knew a woman in New York named Rebecca. Her husband, Victor, a heavyset man, was missing.,Detailed reading,28,29,30,31,Detailed reading32-33,On Saturday, September 15, May Daviss chairman had a gathering at his New Jersey home. Adam Mayblum was there. So was Hong Zhu. Rebecca was
45、also there, learning how her husband, Victor, had been comforted in his last moments, how Harry Ramos had refused to leave him behind.Ramoss wife, Micky, was there too. She kept asking Mayblum and Hong where her husband was, convinced that somehow, Harry the only May Davis employee still missing was
46、 alive.,Detailed reading,32,33,Detailed reading34,Piece by piece, she developed a picture of his escape: Harry was on 87 when the plane hit. He stopped to help on 78. He met up with Hong on 53. But as hard as she tried, as many questions as she asked, the picture began to fade on the 36th floor.,Det
47、ailed reading,34,1. How much do you know about the World Trade Center?,Detailed reading1-Quesion 1,The World Trade Center was more than its signature twin towers: it was a complex of 7 buildings on 16 acres, constructed and operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The towers rose a
48、t the heart of the complex, each climbing more than 100 feet higher than the silver mast of the Empire State Building. The World Trade Center was hit by hijacked planes on September 11, 2001.,Detailed reading,2. What images are used to emphasize the steadiness of the WTC?,Detailed reading1-Quesion 1
49、,Storms and drawstrings.,Detailed reading,Can you paraphrase the sentence “They were careening wildly, three feet in either direction.” in Paragraph 2?,Detailed reading1-Quesion 2,They were swaying up to three feet from side to side, like a ship in a great storm.,Detailed reading,What is the implica
50、tion of the parallel sentences in Paragraph 4 and Paragraph 5?,Detailed reading1-Quesion 5,These sentences are used to emphasize the fact that the people in the building were in great danger and whether they would survive depended very much on where they happened to be when the building was struck and which staircase they would use to get out.,
