【正文】 protection or defense against attack Para. 10 28. The new zeitgeist ... world events. The new spirit of the time even made the pop singer Ally McBeal, who usually had no interest in politics, expressed her worries about world events. to register, to show as by facial expression 29. Relationships... in September. (1) to lament: to feel or express deep sorrow for (2) When did she think relationships were easier? She thought that relationships were easier back in September before the world changed as a result of the terrorist attacks. 30. Why does the writer mention the remarks of Ally McBeal and a detective on NYPD Blue? He mentions the remarks to show that the impact of the attacks is widespread. In other words, all kinds of people are affected by the attacks. Para. 11 31. The most visible ... new patriotism. What do you think is the tone of this statement? The tone is ironical which can be seen from the choice of most visible, profound, 高級(jí)英語 2課程講稿 第 12 頁 ，共 23 頁 “zealous” to modify symptom, “trauma” , and “patriotism” . 32. Seeking solace ... being invincible. 為了尋找安慰，整個(gè)國家都用國旗裹妝起來，就像一個(gè)小孩披上超人的斗篷，扮演無敵英雄。 高級(jí)英語 2課程講稿 第 8 頁 ，共 23 頁 (2) to think in red, white and blue: to think simply and uniformly, in new patriotism (3) Mainstream media refers to the major print papers such as the New York Tries, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal and major TV stations such as ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN. Para. 6 18. The men in suits ... in hiding. (1) Those in the Bush Administration are telling us if those in Afghanistan (the Taliban) fail to turn over to us bin Laden and his followers (alQaeda), what our military people will do to them. Ken Kesey39。 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 2課程講稿 第 5 頁 ，共 23 頁 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。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 2課程講稿 第 4 頁 ，共 23 頁 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。 the Arab world, and capture 39。t. Rightwing talk show host Rush Limbaugh, alerted his listeners, suggesting that Jennings had questioned the President39。Death to Israel39。高級(jí)英語 2課程講稿 第 1 頁 ，共 23 頁 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