基础英语BOOK2__unit6_we_have_been_hit.pptVIP

Pre-reading Questions 1.Tell what you know about the 9.11 Attack. 2.Describe a disaster you have experienced or have heard of and how people involved reacted to it? Background Information Background Information 2.9.11 attack： On Tuesday, September 11,2001, at 8:45 am New York local time, World Trade Center One, the north tower, was hit by a hijacked 767 commercial jet plane, loaded with fuel for a transcontinental flight. World Trade Center Two, 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. Background Information Background Information III. Cultural background The Fear of Death Some old people are oppressed by the fear of death. In the young there is a justification for this feeling. Young men who have reason to fear that they will be killed in battle may justifiably feel bitter in the thought that they have been cheated of the best things that life has to offer. But in an old man who has known human joys and sorrows, and has achieved whatever work it was in him to do, the fear of death is somewhat abject卑躬屈膝的 and ignoble可耻的. The best way to overcome it is to make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a river — small at first, narrowly contained within its