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Unit 7 The 9/11 Terrorist Attack Before Reading An English Song—Let’s Roll Introductory Remarks Blank Filling Questions and Answers Word-web Discussion Background Information September 11 Attacks Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda The Taliban The Kamikaze and The Attack on Pearl Harbour Percy Bysshe Shlley Jean de La Fontaine Global Reading Part Division of the Text Further understanding For Part 1 Questions and Answers For Part 2 Table Completion For Part 3 Blank Filling For Part 4 Interview Detailed Reading After Reading Useful Expressions Sentence Translation Discussion Debate Writing Practice Talk about the Pictures Proverbs and Quotations Supplementary Reading Culture Notes Reading Comprehension Task Before Reading 1. English Song—Let’s Roll Introductory Remarks The song you are about to hear was written to pay tribute to the passengers on the hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 that crashed in Pennsylvania on September 11. “Let’s Roll” was inspired by the words of passenger Todd Beamer, who made a call from the plane and told of the passengers’ plan to storm the cockpit to overpower the terrorists. Young, Neil (1945~ ), Canadian singer, songwriter, and guitarist, who became one of the most distinctive and independent artists in rock music. He was an influential leader in developing the new styles of country rock and folk rock in the 1960s and 1970s. Youngs use of sounds from the punk-rock and hard-rock genres of the 1970s and 1980s makes him a precursor of the 1990s grunge style, which combines folk melodies and harmonies with hard-rock instrumentation and the energy of punk rock. Todd Beamer, an Oracle Inc. executive from Hightstown, N.J. and a passenger on United Airlines Flight 93 which crashed in Somerset County. His phone was connected at 9:45 a.m. on Sept. 11. He talked about 13 minutes on the phone. He and other passengers foiled hijackers bent on crashing the Boeing 757 into what authorities say might have been a second