高级英语Hiroshima-—-the-“Liveliest”-City-in.ppt

Hiroshima the “Liveliest” City in JapanAdvanced English I Jacques Danvoir Lesson Preview On August 6, 1945, at 8:15 early in the morning, Japanese city Hiroshima was razed and destroyed by an explosion of A-bomb dropped by a bomber B-29 of American Air Force. More than twenty years past. An American journalist went to the city to see what physical and psychological traumas remained for the survivors of the calamity. He felt guilty when he stepped on the land of the city. What he saw, however, was quite beyond his expectation. Apart from the skyscrapers, kimono and miniskirts, the thongs, the passionate taxi-drivers, the polite receptionists, he saw nothing sad as the consequence of the A-bombing. The city was lively, prosperous. When the mayor avoided the subtle topic of bombing in the interview, when the small old man frankly told him the isolation and disgrace of the affected survivors and when he saw the patient was so detached towards his incurable disease, he found the answer for his puzzle. The liveliness was only a veil of the city, under which a gloomy shadow of the bombing still haunted this “liveliest” city. Style (1-2) Genre: Feature story (or Features特写或专题节目特写或专题节目). Feature story is an article in a newspaper, a magazine, or a news website that is to take an in-depth look at a subject. Features are often significantly longer than news articles, are more likely to be written from a personal perspective. Features often delve deeper into their subjects, expanding on the details rather than trying to concentrate on a few important key points like the news articles. Structure: 1. The beginning (lead): starts with an intriguing moment in the first two or three paragraphs, an anecdotal lede（轶事开场白）（轶事开场白）. 2. The body (nut paragraphs): provides significance of the story. 3. The end (conclusion): stops at a sudden climax. Mode: Objective, descriptive, comparative, humorous, informal.Style (2-2) Literary Technique: 1. Telling who, what, where, when, why and how. 2. Providing vital information, which is closely to the theme. 3. Using a thread, that is, the author (“I”) observes, interviews, and then finds the result to connect the lead (beginning), the body, the conclusion. 4. Figure of speech: rhetorical question, simile, metaphor.Hiroshima The city of Hiroshima is located on the broad, flat delta of the Ota River, which has 7 channel outlets dividing the city into six islands which project into Hiroshima Bay. The city is almost entirely flat and only slightly above sea level; to the northwest and northeast of the city some hills rise to 700 feet. Hiroshima began as a settlement around a castle built in 1593 by the feudal lord Terumoto Mori. The castle took the name Hiroshima. (Broad Island), which later became the name of the city. By the beginning of World War II, Hiroshima was the 7th largest city in Japan. home.hiroshima-u.ac.jp www.richard- Aerial photo of modern HiroshimaHiroshima CastleA-bombing to Hiroshima (1-6) At the time of A-bombing, Hiroshima was a city of considerable military significance. It contained the headquarters of the Fifth Division and Field Marshal Hatas 2nd General Army Headquarters, which commanded the defense of all of southern Japan. The population of Hiroshima had reached a peak of over 380,000 earlier in the war but prior to the atomic bombing the population had steadily decreased because of a systematic evacuation ordered by the Japanese government. At the time of the attack the population was approximately 255,000. Hiroshima was the primary target of the first U.S. nuclear attack mission, on August 6, 1945. The weather was good, and the crew and equipment functioned properly. In every detail, the attack was carried out exactly as planned, and the bomb, nick-named “little boy”, with a 60 kg core of uranium-235, performed precisely as expected. At 08:15, the B-29 Enola Gay, piloted and commanded by Colonel Paul Tibbets, dropped the nuclear bomb “Little boy” over the central part of the city. It exploded about 600 meters above the city with a blast equivalent to 13 kilotons of TNT, killing an estimated 80,000 civilians outright. At the time this photo was made, smoke billowed 20,000 feet above Hiroshima while smoke from the burst of the first atomic bomb had spread over 10,000 feet on the target at the base of the rising column.The July 24, 1995 issue of Newsweek writes:A bright light filled the plane, wrote Col. Paul Tibbets, We turned back to look at Hiroshima. The city was hidden by that awful cloud.boiling up, mushrooming. My God, the co-pilot, Robert Lewis asked himself, what have we done? Captain Robert Lewis, recalled, Where we had seen a clear city two minutes before, we could no longer see the city. We could see smoke and fires creeping up the sides of the mountains.A-bombing to Hiroshima (2-6) Two-thirds of Hiroshima was destroyed. Within three miles of the explosion, 60,000 of the 90,000 buildings were demolished. Clay roof tiles had melted together. Shadows had i。