何兆熊综合英语第二册unit1.ppt

Detailed Reading The next day, Adam Mayblum sent an e-mail describing his experience to friends and relatives, who sent it to still others. The e-mail was read by someone in San Francisco who knew a woman in New York named Rebecca. Her husband, Victor, a heavyset man, was missing. On Saturday, September 15, May Davis’s chairman had a gathering at his New Jersey home. Adam Mayblum was there. So was Hong Zhu. Rebecca was also there, learning how her husband, Victor, had been comforted in his last moments, how Harry Ramos had refused to leave him behind. Detailed Reading Ramos’s wife, Micky, was there too. She kept asking Mayblum and Hong where her husband was, convinced that somehow, Harry — the only May Davis employee still missing — was alive. Piece by piece, she developed a picture of his escape: Harry was on 87 when the plane hit. He stopped to help on 78. He met up with Hong on 53. But as hard as she tried, as many questions as she asked, the picture began to fade on the 36th floor. meet up with come across 偶遇 Notes: meet the case 适当，令人满意 meet sb. half-way 与某人妥协 meet one’s Waterloo （在比赛中）惨败 Detailed reading 玛丽在异国的街头偶遇了她的学生。 Mary met up with her student on the street of a foreign country. … the picture began to fade on the 36th floor Explanation: … nothing was known about what had happened on the 36th floor. Translation: 在第36层，逃生的画面变得模糊起来。 Detailed reading What is the significance of the last paragraph? And what is its relation to the subtitle of the text “With the building in flames, one man needed help. Another man refused to leave him”? The last paragraph is a condensed account of Ramos’s heroic deed. It echoes the subtitle with a very moving picture. Notice the word “fade,” which literally means “become unclear,” suggesting that Harry Ramos’s wife was unable to absorb the truth about her husband’s death. Detailed reading Purpose Title * * * * * * * * * * * * * Purgatory (para.3): Purgatory is the place where