新世纪 基础英语综合教程2 unit 1.docVIP

Unit 1: We’ve been hit Section One Pre-reading Activities I. Audiovisual supplement Watch the video and answer the following questions. 1. What’s the building that was hit? 2. What was the event? When did it happen? Answers to the Questions: 1. The building is the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. 2. It was one of the 9/11 attacks. It happened on September 11, 2001. Script: News: We have unconfirmed reports this morning that a plane has crashed into one of the towers of the World Trade Center. CNN Center right now ... Officer A: Holy shit! News: ... work on this story, calling our sources and trying to figure out exactly what happened, but, clearly, something relatively devastating happening this morning there. We’re going to join another one of our New York affiliates for their live coverage. Here at the top of this tower, there’s a huge, gaping hole, flames still inside. Officer B: Can you believe this? What schmuck would fly a plane into the Trade Center? Officer C: Maybe they ran out of gas or something. Officer B: Yeah, Colovito. Right. Officer D: Maybe some jerk-off forgot which lever to pull on his twin-engine. Officer E: That’s not a small plane. Officer B: Hell, no. Police Chief: All right, listen up! Let me have your attention here! They’re telling us it’s a commuter plane. Tower One is being evacuated as a precaution. They’ve asked us to send a team down to assist. Sergeant McLoughlin. Team Leader: I’ve got a list of names here. Step out when you hear it. We’re going downtown. (Roll-calling) II. Cultural information 1. President Bush’s address to the nation （添加录音gwb9-11address） Good evening. Today, our fellow citizens, 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 ended by evil, despicab