美英报刊选读Lesson 17.ppt

Lesson 17Days of Danger and Duct Tape Background The September 11, 2001, attacks (often referred to as 9/11—pronounced nine eleven) consisted of a series of coordinated suicide terrorist attacks upon the United States, predominantly targeting civilians, carried out on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. That morning, 19 terrorists affiliated with al-Qaeda hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners. Each team of hijackers included a trained pilot. Two planes (United Airlines Flight 175 and American Airlines Flight 11) crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City, one plane into each tower (One and Two). Both towers collapsed within two hours. The pilot of the third team crashed American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia. Passengers and members of the flight crew on the fourth aircraft (United Airlines Flight 93) attempted to retake control of their plane from the hijackers; that plane crashed into a field near the town of Shanksville in rural Somerset County, Pennsylvania. As well as the 19 hijackers, a confirmed 2,973 people died and another 24 are missing but presumed killed as a result of these attacks. The Mass Murder of September 11th, 2001 September 11th, 2001, saw the most deadly attack on American civilians in modern history. The attack consisted of a coordinated series of assaults. 8:15 AM: Flight 11 was commandeered. 8:42 AM: Flight 175 was commandeered. 8:46 AM: Flight 77 was commandeered. 8:46 AM: 1 World Trade Center was hit by a 767 jetliner. 9:03 AM: 2 World Trade Center was hit by a 767 jetliner. 9:16 AM: Flight 93 was commandeered. 9:38 AM: The Pentagon was hit by a jetliner. 9:59 AM: 2 World Trade Center was leveled. 10:28 AM: 1 World Trade Center was leveled. 5:20 PM: 7 World Trade Center was leveled. Text Analysis Ⅰ Bomb scares have reappeared in the city. It is all horribly “reminiscent” of the traumatic weeks after September 11th 2001.(1) Ⅱ The phoney war continued forcing its