【正文】 ersity (located in Manhattan, no less) even denied America is under attack: 39。Students in my classes see this as an assault on international trade, globalization. 39。 University of Texas professor Robert Jensen said the attack 39。was no more despicable than the massive acts of terrorism ... that the U. S. government has mitted during my lifetime. “While these 39。educators39。 are spreading twisted messages from the fantasy world they inhabit, The Heritage Foundation will continue to tell the truth to Congress, the media, and the Public. 6. I don39。t know a single Arab or Muslim American who does not now feel that he or she belongs to the enemy camp, and that being in the United States at this moment provides us with an especially unpleasant experience of alienation and widespread, quite specifically targeted hostility... ... By passing the Patriot Act last November, Bush and his pliant Congress have suppressed or abrogated or abridged whole sections of the First, Fourth, Fifth and Eighth Amendments, instituted legal procedures that give individuals no recourse either to a prope defense or a fair trial, that allows secret searches, eavesdropping, detention without limit, and, given the treatment of the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, that allow the US executive branch to abduct prisoners, detain them indefinitely, decide unilaterally whether or not they are prisoners of war and whether or not the Geneva Conventions apply to themwhich is not a decision to be taken by individual countries... 高級(jí)英語(yǔ) 2課程講稿 第 4 頁(yè) ，共 23 頁(yè) The problem for the world today is how to deal with the unparalleled and unprecedented power of the United States, which in effect has made no secret of the fact that it does not need coordination with or approval of others in the pursuit of what a small circle of men and women around Bush believe are its interests... From my point of view, the most shocking thing of all is that with few exceptions most prominent intellectual and mentators in this country have tolerated the Bush program, tolerated and in some flagrant cases, tried to go beyond it, toward more selfrighteous sophistry, more uncritical selfflattery, more specious argument... 7. A powerful group of neoconservatives is launching a new public relations campaign in support of President Gee W. Bush39。s war on terrorism. At a Tuesday gathering of the National Press Club, members of the new Americans for Victory Over Terrorism (AVOT) declared their intention to 39。take to task those groups and individuals who fundamentally misunderstand the nature of the war we are facing Those groups and individuals, AVOT claims, need to be resisted both here and abroad. A fullpage AVOT advertisement carried in the March 10 Sunday New York Times pointed to radical Islam as 39。an enemy no less dangerous and no less determined than the twin menaces of fascism and munism we faced in the 20th century. At the same time, the $128,000 ad lambasted those at home 39。who are attempting to use this opportunity to promulgate their agenda of 39。blame America first. 39。 39。 Both [internal and external] threats, the ad continues,39。 stem from either a hatred for the American ideals of freedom and equality or a misunderstanding of those ideals and their practice. 8. ... But what they (AVOT) desire is that critics of the war shut their traps. This group does intend to portray critics as dangers to the country for, yes, weakening national resolve. Loose lips sink ships and all that. This is a campaign of intimidation... Part I (Paras. 16) This section gives a general description of the change in the United States after September 11. The events of September 11 divided our world into two radically different eras. Para. 1 1. The writer begins the essay with the description of the tragic scene at ground zero: smokes oming out of the ruins of World Trade Towers and ashes of the thousands of the dead stirred by the breeze. And it is against such tragic background that a new age of anxiety was born. 高級(jí)英語(yǔ) 2課程講稿 第 5 頁(yè) ，共 23 頁(yè) 2. Why does the writer call it a new age of anxiety? That is because the September 11 attacks were not considered as single, individual actions but part of a wellcoordinated, wellanized plan of a terrorist group with global reach. Terrible things or even more terrible things may follow. Hence the age of anxiety. anxiety: a state of feeling uneasy, apprehensive or worried about what may happen。 concern about a possible future event to smolder: to burn and smoke without flame 3. If someone ... an astonishing new landscape. (1) Explain the meaning of the sentence in your own words. If someone fell asleep before September 11, like the hero in the story Rip van Winkle Washington Irving, and then woke up after September 11, he would find that great changes had taken place in the United States (2) Landscape: an expanse of natural scenery seen by the eye i n one view Para. 2 4. Guardsmen... at our airports. After September 11, in order to strengthen airport security, national guardsmen (國(guó)民警衛(wèi)隊(duì)員 ) were dispatched to the airports throughout the United States to help tighten security to avoid similar attacks. 5. The president.., stadium rooftop. 美利堅(jiān)合眾國(guó)總統(tǒng)出席觀看全國(guó)棒球賽，于是紐約揚(yáng)基體育場(chǎng)上空的空域關(guān)閉，禁止飛機(jī)通過(guò)。在體育場(chǎng)的屋頂上，部署了一排阻擊手。 6. The vicepresident39。s safekeepers.., halfway across the world. (1) 副總統(tǒng)的保衛(wèi)人員匆匆地把他從一個(gè)地方轉(zhuǎn)移到另一個(gè)地方，就像他那難以對(duì)付的死敵奧斯瑪 .本 .拉登可能在世界另一端從一個(gè)山洞轉(zhuǎn)移到另一個(gè)山洞一樣。 (2) Note the parison: vice president whisk from place to place bin Laden is moved from cave to cave The choice of whisk and move is worth noting. 7. Anthrax panic..,