大学英语_We’ve Been Hit.ppt

Warming up Pre-reading Questions 1.Tell what you know about the 9.11 Attack. natural disaster Background Information 1. 9.11 attack On Tuesday, September 11,2001, at 8:45 am New York local time, World Trade Center One(WTC1), the north tower, was hit by a hijacked 767 commercial jet plane, loaded with fuel for a transcontinental flight. WTC2, the south tower, was hit by a similar hijacked jet 18 minutes later at 9:03 am. On separate but related attacks, the Pentagon building near Washington D.C. was hit by a hijacked 757 at 9:43 am, and at 10:10 am, a fourth hijacked jetliner crashed in Pennsylvania. The south tower, WTC 2, which had been hit second, was the first to suffer a complete structural collapse at 10:05 am, 62 minutes after being hit. The north tower, WTC 1, then also collapsed at 10:29am, 104 minutes after being hit. WTC 7, a substantial 47 storey building in its own right, built in 1987, was damaged by the collapsing towers, caught fire, and later in the afternoon also totally collapsed. 2. The World Trade Center Para.1 In this paragraph two images are used to emphasize the power (steadiness) of the WTC. They are storms and drawstrings. Storms were nothing compared with the giant building, and even the swaying of the drawstrings was only an illusion. Language work 1. sway: to move or swing from side to side Para. 2-5 These sentences are used to emphasize the fact that the people in the building were in great danger and they would have to try to find their way out according to where they happened to be. This is the industrialists dilemma: invest, and risk going bankrupt, or not invest and risk losing your share of the market. 1.For some, it was a matter of geography (Para 4): Para 6-9 Q: What does “burning jet fuel” mean? It means that “he had walked into the wild chaos with great difficulty…” Language work A scene of indescribable confusion followed the explosion. Para 10-14 Can you find various w