1、Unit 3 Security,But Security is threatened by,Terrorist AttackCampus ShootingTheft / Robbery,Airplane hijack,Terrorist Attacks on Sept. 11, 2001,This is a moment for America. I, unfortunately, will be going back to after my remarks. Secretary Rod Paige and the Lieutenant Governor (副州长) will take the
2、 podium (讲台) and discuss . I do want to thank the folks here at Booker Elementary School for their . Today weve had a national tragedy. Two have crashed into the Center in an terrorist attack on our country. I have spoken to the Vice President, to the of New York, to the Director,difficult,_,Washing
3、ton,_,education,_,hospitality,_,airplanes,_,World Trade,_,apparent,_,Governor,_,Ladies and gentlemen:,President Bushs Address On Sept. 11th,of the , and have ordered that the full of the federal government go to help the victims and their families, and to conduct a full-scale to hunt down and to fin
4、d those folks who committed this act. against our nation will not stand. And now if you would join me in a moment of . May God bless the victims, their , and . Thank you very much.,America,_,FBI,_,resources,_,investigation,_,Terrorism,_,silence,_,families,_,American Campus Shooting,Littleton: On Apr
5、il 20th, 1999, two teenage students opened fire on classmates and teachers in their suburban Denver school, killing 15 people including themselves.,Back,American Campus Shooting,Detroit: On December 11th, 1998, Wayne State University professor was shot and killed while collecting final exams from hi
6、s engineering students when the gunman stepped into the classroom and opened fire with a rifle. The professor fell wounded to the floor, only to be shot again by the man who took the time to reload.,Back,American Campus Shooting,Springfield: On May 21st, 1998, a freshman student opened fire with a s
7、emi-automatic rifle in a high school cafeteria, killing two students and wounding 22 others. The teenagers parents were later found shot to death in their home.,Back,American Campus Shooting,Los Angeles: On October 11, 1999, five students were fatally wounded in a Jewish community center.,Back,Ameri
8、can Campus Shooting,Fayetteville: On May 19th, 1998, a high school senior shot and killed another student in the school parking lot at Lincoln County High School.,Back,American Campus Shooting,Pearl: On October 1st, 1997, a 16-year-old student in Pearl, Mississippi, is accused of killing his mother,
9、 then going to school and shooting nine students. Two of them died.,Back,American Campus Shooting,German Campus Shooting,Cultural Notes,Crime prevention In the United States today, Americans are growing more concerned with their security. It is reported that the crime rate is soaring. To help people
10、 protect themselves from crime, police departments in many states have offered to citizens safety tips, such as,(continued),how to protect yourself when using a banks automated teller machine, how to protect yourself from a carjacking, how to protect yourself from motor vehicle theft, how to protect
11、 yourself in parking garages, how to safeguard your home while on vacation, and how to protect yourself while walking at night. Suppose youre in one of the situations, what will you do to protect yourself?,Tips:,Avoid walking or running alone at night. Instead go walking or jogging with a friend. Do
12、nt use headphones while walking, driving or jogging. Always walk in well-lighted areas. Always stay near the curb.,Tips:,Avoid the use of short cuts. After dark, keep away from large bushes or doorways where someone could be lurking. Do not display cash openly, especially when leaving an ATM.,Tips:,
13、If someone in a vehicle stops and asks for directions, answer from a distance. Do not approach the vehicle.If followed, go immediately to an area with lights and people. If needed, turn around and walk in the opposite direction; your follower will also have to reverse directions.,In Britain there is
14、 Neighborhood Watch which is an arrangement by which people who live in a particular street or area watch each others houses and tell the police if they see anything suspicious. Many people have formed local Neighborhood Watch groups to try to prevent crime, but others have refused to join them beca
15、use they do not like the idea of being watched by their neighbors.,Text A: THE LAND OF THE LOCK,Bob Greene,About lock,Lock-unlock 锁匠 locksmith亡羊补牢 lock the stable door after the horse has bolted/ been stolen Mend the fold after a sheep is lost,“LOCKS”,IDEAL WORLD,路不拾遗，夜不闭户 No one picked up and pocke
16、ted anything lost on the road, while no family had the need to bolt the doors at night.,1. Please scan the whole text in 7 mins and recall the key words related to the context,“lock” is one of the keywords in this text, by locating “lock” throughout the text, we get a pretty good idea of what this e
17、ssay is about.2. What types of security methods has mentioned in the text? Could you find them out?,Word Scanning,1) the door was closed but not locked. (Para. 1 ) 2) It has been replaced by dead-bolt locks, security chains, electronic alarm system (Para. 4 ) 3) The lock is a new symbol of America.
18、(Para. 6) 4) the transformation of America from the Land of the Free to the Land of the Lock. (Para. 7) 5) we devise ways to lock the fear out. (Para. 16) 6) We may have locked the evils out, but in so doing we have locked ourselves in. (Para. 18),1) doors do not stay unlocked (Para. 2) a picture of
19、 a childs bicycle with the now-usual padlock attached to it. (Para. 6),Security Systems,Security (locks),security chains,electronic alarm systems,trip wires,sliding glass doors with steel bars,access cards,electronic X-ray equipment,high-intensity light,rape whistles,dead-bolt locks,Main Idea of the
20、 Text,America is deteriorating from “the Land of the Free” into “the Land of the Lock”.,Text Organization,In America, the era of leaving the front door on the latch has drawn to a close.,A new atmosphere of fear and distrust creeps into every aspect of daily life. As a result, security devices, in v
21、aried forms, are put to use.,By locking our fears out, we become prisoners of our own making.,Part 1 True or False,1. The phrase “on the latch” means the door is closed and locked. ( ) 2. Nowadays, doors, not only in cities but also in rural areas, are locked. ( ) 3. Urban streets are more dangerous
22、 than outskirts and country areas.( ) 4. In America nowadays, no one leaves his front door on the latch anymore. ( )Keys: F, T, F, T,Part 2 Supporting Facts for the Central Idea,In this text the author uses lots of facts to support his central point of view: America is deteriorating from “the Land o
23、f the Free” into “the most insecure nation”.Could you find any more supporting facts?Reference on Text Organization practice on page69.,Doors are not left unlocked either in cities or in rural areas. (para2) Dead-bolt locks, security chains, electronic alarm systems and trip wires are widely in use.
24、 (para4) Suburban families have steel bars built in sliding glass doors. (para4) Small notices warning against burglary are commonly seen pasted on the windows of the most pleasant of home. (para5),Access cards are required of those who work with medium to large-size companies. (para10) Airport secu
25、rity uses electronic X-ray equipment to guard against terrorism. (para12-13) Businessmen employ new machines linked up to their telephone to help determine whether the caller is telling lies or not. (para15) Suburban housewives wear rape whistles on their key chains. (para18),Under what excuse do pe
26、ople resort all these means mentioned in Part 2?Does the author think they are justified in doing so?,Part 3 Questions and Answers,In the name of “Security”.,No. Because in the authors opinion, America becomes the most insecure nation with all these means.,2 Those days are over. In rural areas as we
27、ll as in cities, doors do not stay unlocked, even for part of an evening.,1 In the house where I grew up, it was our custom to leave the front door on the latch at night. I dont know if that was a local term or if it is universal; “on the latch” meant the door was closed but not locked. None of us c
28、arried keys; the last one in for the evening would close up, and that was it.,THE LAND OF THE LOCK,Bob Greene,3 Suburbs and country areas are, in many ways, even more vulnerable than well-patroled urban streets. Statistics show the crime rate rising more dramatically in those allegedly tranquil area
29、s than in cities. At any rate, the era of leaving the front door on the latch is over. 4 It has been replaced by dead-bolt locks, security chains, electronic alarm systems and trip wires hooked up to a police station or private guard firm. Many suburban families have sliding glass doors on their pat
30、ios, with steel bars elegantly built in so no one can pry the doors open.,6 The lock is the new symbol of America. Indeed, a recent public-service advertisement by a large insurance company featured not charts showing how much at risk we are, but a picture of a childs bicycle with the now-usual padl
31、ock attached to it.,5 It is not uncommon, in the most pleasant of homes, to see pasted on the windows small notices announcing that the premises are under surveillance by this security force or that guard company.,7 The ad pointed out that, yes, it is the insurance companies that pay for stolen good
32、s, but who is going to pay for what the new atmosphere of distrust and fear is doing to our way of life? Who is going to make the psychic payment for the transformation of America from the Land of the Free to the Land of the Lock?8 For that is what has happened. We have become so used to defending o
33、urselves against the new atmosphere of American life, so used to putting up barriers, that we have not had time to think about what it may mean.9 For some reason we are satisfied when we think we are well-protected; it does not occur to us to ask ourselves: Why has this happened?,remains that the bu
34、siness you work for feels threatened enough to keep outsiders away via these “keys.”,Why are we having to barricade ourselves against our neighbors and fellow citizens, and when, exactly, did this start to take over our lives?,10 And it has taken over. If you work for a medium- to large-size company
35、, chances are that you dont just wander in and out of work. You probably carry some kind of access card, electronic or otherwise, that allows you in and out of your place of work. Maybe the security guard at the front desk knows your face and will wave you in most days, but the fact,11 It wasnt alwa
36、ys like this. Even a decade ago, most private businesses had a policy of free access. It simply didnt occur to managers that the proper thing to do was to distrust people.12 Look at the airports. Parents used to take children out to departure gates to watch planes land and take off. Thats all gone.
37、Airports are no longer a place of education and fun; they are the most sophisticated of security sites.13 With electronic X-ray equipment, we seem finally to have figured out a way to hold the terrorists, real and imagined, at bay; it was such a relief to solve this problem that we did not think muc
38、h about what such a state of affairs says about the quality of our lives.,14 Our neighborhoods are bathed in high-intensity light; we do not want to afford ourselves even so much a luxury as a shadow.15 Businessmen, in increasing numbers, are purchasing new machines that hook up to the telephone and
39、 analyze a callers voice. The machines are supposed to tell the businessman, with a small margin of error, whether his friend or client is telling lies.16 All this is being done in the name of “security”; this is what we tell ourselves. We are fearful, and so we devise ways to lock the fear out, and
40、 that, we decide, is what security means.,We now pass through these electronic friskers without so much as a sideways glance; the machines, and what they stand for, have won.,17 But no; with all this “security,” we are perhaps the most insecure nation in the history of civilized man. What better wor
41、d to describe the way in which we have been forced to live? What sadder reflection on all that we have become in this new and puzzling time?18 We trust no one. Suburban housewives wear rape whistles on their station wagon key chains. We have become so smart about self-protection that, in the end, we
42、 have all outsmarted ourselves. We may have locked the evils out, but in so doing we have locked ourselves in.,19 That may be the legacy we remember best when we look back on this age: In dealing with the unseen horrors among us, we became prisoners of ourselves. All of us prisoners, in this time of
43、 our troubles.,Discussion,In Paragraph 6, the author mentions a public service advertisement by a large insurance company. Discuss the following questions.,1. What does this ad point out?,2. What is the authors purpose of using this example?,The lock is the new symbol of America.,“Local” means “of a
44、 particular place”, while “universal” means “common to all conditions or situations”.,I dont know if that was a local term or if it is universal.,1. What do “local” and “universal” mean respectively?,2. Translate the sentence into Chinese.,我不知道这是当地的一种说法，还是大家都是这么说的。,Paraphrase the sentence., doors ar
45、e always locked, even just for a short period of time in the evening., doors do not stay unlocked, even for part of an evening.,Small notices warning against burglary are commonly seen pasted on the windows of the most pleasant of homes.,It is not uncommon, in the most pleasant of homes, to see past
46、ed on the windows small notices announcing that the premises are under surveillance by this security force or that guard company.,What can be commonly seen pasted on the windows of the most pleasant homes?,What is the insurance companys intention of running an ad with a picture showing a padlock att
47、ached to a kids bicycle?,The insurance company wants to show what danger people are in now because they may get the kids bicycle stolen.,Indeed, a recent public-service advertisement by a large insurance company featured not charts showing how much at risk we are, but a picture of a childs bicycle w
48、ith the now-usual padlock attached to it.,A company which is between medium-sized and large-sized.,If you work for a medium- to large-size company, chances are that you dont just wander in and out of work.,1. What is a medium- to large-size company?,2. Paraphrase the structure “chances are that ”,It is very likely that ,Chances are that we will win easily.,我们很可能会轻松取胜。,It simply didnt occur to managers that the proper thing to do was to distrust people.,那时管理人员根本没想到过恰当的手段是不信任他人。,1. Paraphrase the structure “It occurs to sb. that ”,2. Translate the sentence into Chinese.,
