【正文】 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。 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 character and the s were launched. 高級英語 2課程講稿 第 3 頁 ，共 23 頁 4.Even edians are not exempt from the patriotism monitors. Bill Mayer, the host of Politically Incorrect, lived up to his latenight talk show39。oil for the Bush family39。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。 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)合眾國總統(tǒng)出席觀看全國棒球賽，于是紐約揚(yáng)基體育場上空的空域關(guān)閉，禁止飛機(jī)通過。s statement is actually a parody of Gee W. Bush39。 33 there are few places ... found a purchase. (1) 沒有什么地方看不到星條旗的 (2) has not found a purchase: has not been available 34. People who never ... patriotic. (1) Note the contrast implied in the statement. never gave much thought versus suddenly, passionately patriotic. (2) What is the tone of the statement? It is slightly ironical. (3) People who never bothered about the national flag except on national day, who never thought about the flag, suddenly became intensely patriotic. The implied meaning is that this is a kind of irrational emotion. 35. What are the two kinds of patriotism brought up by the writer in this paragraph? One is the upholding of the principles embodied in the Constitution. The other is the display of the flag everywhere, using the flag as an icon, as overpensation for a wounded ego. 36. But the now.., ego. (1) What is meant by the inescapable presence of the flag? It means the display of the flag everywhere. (2) What is meant by overpensation for a wounded ego? It means the presence of the flag everywhere seems to serve as an exaggerated effort to make up for the harm done to selfesteem. The Americans felt humiliated by the attacks. Eleven suicidal terrorists, with box cutters, hijacked four American passenger planes and struck at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, symbols of American economic and military power, killing thousands of people. A superpower with most sophisticated weapons was caught unawares and unprepared. This greatly hurt American pride and was a blow to American arrogance. This was a blow to the myth of American invulnerability. Hence the phrase wounded ego. In order to demonstrate their determination to rally round the government and the spirit of unity, the Americans turned to the buying and displaying of the national flag. The writer uses the word overpensation to describe such action. (3) to overpensate： [psychology] to react to a real or imagined physical or psychological defeat by a conscious or unconscious exaggerated drive to pensate for it 37. The flag is an icon ... Nike swoosh. 高級英語 2課程講稿 第 13 頁 ，共 23 頁 The flag, like the Nike swoosh, is only a symbol, a brand, which cannot give the American people any actual, physical protection. Part III (Paras. 1215) The result of national paranoia is the hardening of outlook. In the . today, it is called war on terrorism. Para. 12 38. Why does the writer bring up Gee Orwell39。t he agree with them? He does not think the loss of innocence is a bad thing. Besides, he does not think this is the main consequence of the attack. (3) How does he express his disapproval? He expresses his disapproval in an understatement. Para. 8 23. Overnight... surreal episodes... (1) Why does the writer mention a sword of Damocles? This is an allusion and the writer uses it to show that people fear that terrorist attacks may fall upon them any time so they live in constant fear, the same as Damocles sitting under a sword suspended by a hair. (2) Suddenly, people in the United States found themselves living in constant fear, fearing that another terrorist attack might e at any time and as a result there had been growing tendency of irrational suspicion and mistrust, leading to certain fanatic actions. 24 most appalling of all