大学英语精读第四册第四单元

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Flight 93
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8:42 a.m.
United Airlines Flight 93 takes off from Newark, New Jersey, with 44 aboard. The flight is bound for San Francisco.
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Terrorism
Terrorism is the use of violence, or the threat of violence, to create a climate of fear in a given population. Terrorist violence targets ethnic or religious groups, governments, political parties, corporations, and media enterprises. Organizations that engage in acts of terror are usually small in size and fear generated by their violence, which seek to magnify their influence and power to affect political change on either a local or an international scale.
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Warm-up Questions 1. What happened to the United States on September 11, 2001?
2. How many planes were hijacked on September 11, 2001? What were their targets?
9:30 a.m.
The two F-16s from Langley Air Force Base are airborne. After Flight 77 hits the Pentagon, the jets are ordered to perform combat air patrols over Washington. At some point, according to The New York Times, the pilots received a radio transmission from a secret service official who told them to protect the White House “at all costs” .
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1. Warm-up Questions 2. Compound Dictation 3. Terrorism 4. Flight 93 5. Remarks by the President Less than One Hour after the Attack 6. An English Song
On the sunny morning of September 11, 2001, 19 _te_r_ro_r_is_t_s_ , working in teams of 4 or 5, h__ija_c_k_e_d_ four commercial jetliners and turned them toward targets chosen for destruction. Two of the planes, loaded with passengers, were flown at full speed into the twin towers of _t_h_e_W__o_r_ld__T_ra_d_e__C_e_n_t_er_ in the financial district of New York City. The buildings burst into flames and then collapsed, killing thousands. A third terrorist crew smashed their plane into _th_e__P_e_n_ta_g_o_n__ , headquarters of the U.S. military in Arlington, Virginia. The hijackers of the fourth airliner apparently intended to hit another target in Washington, D.C., but the passengers on the plane realized what was happening and fought back. This airplane c_r_a_s_h_e_d_ in a field in rural Pennsylvania.
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Compound Dictation
Directions: Listen to the following passage and fill in the missing words.
9:16 a.m.
The FAA informs NORAD that Flight 93 may have been hijacked.
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பைடு நூலகம்
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9:24 a.m.
NORAD orders two F-16s at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia to intercept United Airlines Flight 77.