Lesson-6-book-2-The-Man-in-the-Water-现代大学英语第二册.ppt

单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,The Man in the Water,On Jan.13,1982 one of the worst snowstorms in the history of Washington,D.C.hit the city.Just about everything closed downthe government,businesses,schools,the airports.By about noon,the skies cleared and Washingtons National Airport reopened for business.The crew of Air Florida Flight 90 began preparing for a nonstop trip to sunny Fort Lauderdale,Florida.At 3:59 p.m.,the twin-engine Boeing 737 was cleared for takeoff and began rumbling down the runway on its final flight.,Introduction:The Air Crash,Minutes later,the plane smashed into the 14th Street Bridge,only 1,200 yards from the Pentagon,destroying four automobiles and killing five people.The jet then fell into the ice-covered Potomac River,bringing all the passengers to their instant death except fivefour passengers and one flight attendantfrom the tail section,who found themselves gasping and struggling in the icy waters.,These five people however survived and they were able to survive because of four heroes.The author wrote this essay in praise of these heroes,three of whom had risked their lives to rescue the survivors and were able to live to tell the story,but the man that really held the whole nations attention was the fourth one who had kept pushing his lifeline and flotation rings to others until he went under.,Text Analysis,The man in the water did not have to give his rings to others;he did not even know these people.He was extraordinary precisely because he was ordinary.He showed what everyone of us could do at that critical moment.The display of his heroism was a song to the beautiful human character.,Theme,Part 1(,Paras.13),:,Part 2(,Paras.49),:,Structure,The terrible air crash in Washington,D.C.that brought people to tears and to attention and the possible reasons for the national sensation.,Its the ordinary man in the water who performed the extraordinary and stunning deeds that created the emotional impact and the enduring wonder.,Sentence Paraphrase,strong,sudden movement of wind,With a sharp and loud noise,Washington,the neatly well-designed city of order was thrown into a terrible confusion.,apposition phrase,a sharp,loud and forceful strike of the plane and the bridge,stressing what met the ear,Washington,the city of form and rules,turned chaotic by a blast of real winter and a single slap of metal on metal.(Para.1),disordered state of unformed things,Last Wednesday the elements,indifferent as ever,brought down Flight 90.And on that same afternoon human naturegroping and strugglingrose to the occasion.(Para.2),Last Wednesday,the bad weather,unconcerned about the consequences it might bring about as always,made Flight 90 fall down.On that same afternoon,human nature,groping for the flotation rings and struggling in the icy water,came to prove its greatness displayed in an unexpected tragedy.,made the plane fall down,unconcern about the consequences as always,was able to deal with an unexpected problem,a difficult task,Of the four acknowledged heroes of the event,three are able to account for their behavior.(Para.3),Only three out of these four heroes lived to tell people what they actually had done and how they had rescued the five survivors.,Skutnik added that“somebody had to go into the water”,delivering every heros line that is no less admirable for being repeated.(Para.3),Skutnik gave a remark that has been said before by many people in similar situations,but it is still admirable.,making every heros remark,equally,as a result of,His selfishness was one reason the story held national attention;his anonymity another.(Para.4),Parallel structure,For a while he was Everyman,and thus proof(as if one needed it)that no one is ordinary.(Para.4),Everyman,the name of a 15th-century English moral play about death and fate of mans soul,generally regarded as the best moral play,The anonymous man really represents the best of human nature.What he did was not the act of a supernatural being,but the act of an ordinary person.,So the age-old battle began again in the Potomac.For as long as man could last,they went at each other,nature and man.(Para.7),fought,the traditional idea that human civilization is a record of mans gradual conquest of nature,the one making no distinctions of good and evil,acting on no principles,offering no lifelines;the other acting wholly on distinctions,principles and,perhaps,on faith.(Para.7),Man,on the other hand,has his moral standards of what is right and wrong.He must behave according to the moral principles and beliefs.,Nature has no moral standards.It works on no human principles.It cares nothing about the individual life of man.,In reality,we believe the opposite,and it takes the act of the man in the water to remind us of our true feelings in this matter.(Para.8),Actually,the death of the man did not mean that human beings had lost the battle.In a moral sense,man had won because mans courage to defy death was also a tremendous power.Therefore,what happened to this man in the water should fill us with pride rather than sadness.,The man in the water set himself against an immovable,impersonal enemy;he fought it with kindness;and he held it to a standoff.He was the best we can do.(Para.9),nature,which is indifferent and cannot be persuaded to change its attitude towards man,a situation in which neither side in a battle can gain an advantage,to make sb.start to fight with,Word Study,element/elements,blast,collision/clash/crash,rise to the occasion,account for,in the line of duty,casualty,anonymity,stunning,on behalf of,likewise,collision/clash/crash,collision,1)an accident in which two or more people or vehicles hit each other while moving in different directions,+with,:The school bus was involved in a collision with a truck.,head-on collision,:(=between two vehicles moving directly towards each other.),2)a strong disagreement between two people or groups,+between,:Discrepancies between ideas and collisions between beliefs had to be reconciled and mediated.,（可指具体事物的相撞，也可指抽象意义上的冲突）,Clash,Troops clashed near the border.(if two armies,or groups of people clash,they suddenly start fighting each other.),Democrats clashed with Republicans in a heated debate.(if two people or groups of people clash,they argue because their opinions and beliefs are very different.),Note:,Clash,is often used in preference to,collision,when two or more things come into contact with one another in such a manner that noises of crashing and jangling are more apparent than the destruction or ruin wrought:,e.g.the clash of swords in battle,（可指两件或两件以上的事情因同时发生而造成时间上的相互冲突,eg:There is a clash between two classes held at 3 p.m.on the same day.,）,New words and phrases,With a cras,h:There was a loud crack and the branch came down with a crash.(哗啦声),rise to the occasion/challenge,:,to deal successfully with a difficult situation or problem,e.g.Im sure that he will rise to the occasion when he realizes what is at stake.,I,had never thought much of Jack as a public speaker,but he certainly rose to the occasion.,account for:,1)to be the reason why something happens.,e.g.recent pressure at work may account for his behavior.,2)to give a satisfactory explanation of why something has happened or why you did something.,e.g.How do you account for the sudden disappearance of the murder weapon?,in the line of duty,:if you do something in the line of duty,you do it as part of your job,e.g.Dont thank me,madam-its all in the line of duty.,be in sbs line,:to be the type of thing that someone is interested in or good at,e.g.Im afraid cookery isnt really in my line.,on behalf of(also in behalf of),instead of someone,or as their representative:,e.g.On behalf of everyone here,may I wish you a very happy retirement.,The president can not be here today,so Im going to speak in his behalf.,likewise,1)(formal)in the same way;similarly,e.g.I was up at dawn,and my host likewise.,Nanny put on a shawl and told the girls to do likewise.,2)(spoken)used to return someones greeting or polite comment,e.g.“Youre always welcome at our house.”,“likewise.”,commitment,:Here:a strong sense of responsibility or loyalty,e.g:We have a strong commitment to follow WTO rules.,commit v.,sb/oneself to sth/to doing sth,make it impossible for sb.or oneself not to do sth.,e.g.WTO commits China to giving national treatment to all foreign business people.,be committed to do sth,:promise to do sth,e.g:China is committed to lower its tariffs.,go under:,to sink;to be drowned,e.g:In a fierce competition,these poorly managed enterprises will go under.(fail),go at:,to attack;to start to fight,Those companies went at each other like hungry wolves.,set sb against sb,:to make sb start to fight or quarrel with another person,esp.a person with whom they had friendly relations before.,e.g:There were outside forces who were trying to set one tribe against another.That was why there were endless civil wars in that country.,Im not going to set myself against my own classmates.,