【正文】 ferent periods. (3) radically: fundamentally, basically, pletely 9. We watch ... shades of nostalgia. 帶著惆悵的心情，我們目送懷念的小筏載著 911 前的餓世界，在一種懷舊的暗淡色彩中漂流而去。 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。blame America first. 39。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。was no more despicable than the massive acts of terrorism ... that the U. S. government has mitted during my lifetime. “While these 39。oil for the Bush family39。kill innocent people39。s character and the s were launched. 高級(jí)英語(yǔ) 2課程講稿 第 3 頁(yè) ，共 23 頁(yè) 4.Even edians are not exempt from the patriotism monitors. Bill Mayer, the host of Politically Incorrect, lived up to his latenight talk show39。. Mayer agreed, saying. We have been cowards, lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That39。 That ment and several others have e back to haunt him in the aftermath of Sept. 11. Officials at the University of South Florida, where Mr. A1Arian is a tenured professor of puter science, has started proceedings to fire himessentially for being a fiery Palestinian activist who embarrasses them. The result is a case that is less about Professor A1Arian than it is about ourselves, what kind of university we desire, how much dissent we dare tolerate and how we treat minorities in times of national stress. ... the larger point is that a university, even a country, bees sterile when people are too intimidated to say things out of the mainstream... The university ... started a process to fire Mr. A1 Arian. The reason was not Mr. A1 Arian39。s case is perhaps the most troubling of all because of the sheer severity of his treatment and the shockingly abrupt suspension of his rights to dual legal process. Government lawyers have refused to spell out what evidence, if any, they have against him, saying that they do not have to under the Bush 高級(jí)英語(yǔ) 2課程講稿 第 2 頁(yè) ，共 23 頁(yè) administration39。高級(jí)英語(yǔ) 2課程講稿 第 1 頁(yè) ，共 23 頁(yè) Unit Ten Before and After September 11 Tai Moses Necessary Backgrund 1. Since 11 September last year, up to 2,000 people in the United States have been detained without trial, or charge, or even legal rights. The fate of most is unknown. Andrew Gumbel investigates a scandal that shames the land of the free. They came for Rabih Haddad in the afternoon, as his family was getting ready to celebrate the end of Ramadan. Three men from the Immigration and Naturalization took him away from the apartment in Ann Arbor, Michigan, that he shared with his wife and four children... That was 14 December, more than two months ago. Since that time, Haddad, a widely respected religious leader and founding member of one of the United States39。ida anization. But no evidence has been publicly forthing to substantiate the claim and no formal accusation has been made against him. This is far from the first case of an Arab or southAsian national being rounded up and subjected to indefinite detention in the wake of the 11 September attacks on New York and Washington. The Justice Department acknowledged the arrest of 1,200 people before it stopped releasing numbers in November: human rights groups believe the total number Could be as high as 2,000. But Haddad39。Death to Israel39。s frequent references to the terrorists ascowards39。t. Rightwing talk show host Rush Limbaugh, alerted his listeners, suggesting that Jennings had questioned the President39。s education establishment, those entrusted with teaching our children, have said and done some shocking things in the past few weeks. A Chico State University professor claimed President Bush wants to 39。 the Arab world, and capture 39。 University of Texas professor Robert Jensen said the attack 39。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