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Unit7 Terrorism * * Pre-reading Activities Oral practice Group work: Directions: Discuss what you know about the terrorisms with your classmates. After discussion, gather all the information in your group to work out a report to the whole class. Suggested Answers Terrorism ----refers to the use of violence, or the threat of violence, to create a climate of feast in a given population. Terrorist violence targets ethnic or religious groups, governments, political parties, corporations and enterprises, organizations and media enterprises. Organizations they engages in the acts of terror are usually small in size and limited in resources compared to the populations and institutions they oppose. Through publicity and fear generated by their violence, they seek to magnify their influence and power to affect political change on either a local or an international scale . Text A The Nightmare and the Dreams--How has Sept. 11 affected our national unconscious? Peggy Noonan Sept. 11: coordinated terrorist strike on the US on Sept. 11, 2001 when 19 terrorists hijacked (劫持) four jetliners and smashed three planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon (美国防部五角大楼). Suspicion immediately centered on Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda, as the person responsible. New York (city): the largest city in the US, the home of the UN, and the center of global finance, communi-cations, and business. It consists of five boroughs: Bronx, Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island. The Brooklyn Bridge: the bridge over the East River in New York City that connects Manhattan with Brooklyn. It was opened in 1883 and has a length of 1595 feet (486 meters). Text Organization The text is a familiar essay. Loose and informal in style, it is, nevertheless, always related to, mostly implicitly, one topic—the aftereffects of the terrorist crimes of September 11 on people, especially their unconscious. Rather than listing instances of physical damage, the autho