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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,*,Unit,3,Ronald Reagan:Remarks on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day,Contents,1.About the author,2.Background of the Text:1).2).3).4).5).6).,3.Questions,4.Word Distinctions,5.Oral Interpretation:1).2).,6.Written Translation:1).2).3).,7.Further questions for discussion,Ronald Wilson Reagan,(1911-2004),About the speaker,Ronald Wilson Reagan,a former film star who became Americas 40th president,the oldest to enter the White House but imbued with a youthful optimism rooted in the traditional virtues of a bygone era,died at an age of 93 at his home in Los Angeles.To a nation hungry for a hero,a nation battered by Vietnam,damaged by Watergate and humiliated by the taking of hostages in Iran,Ronald Reagan held out the promise of a return to greatness,the promise that America would stand tall again.Mr.Reagan lived longer than any United States president,spending his final years in seclusion as he coped with the mental debilitation of Alzheimers disease.,About the speaker:,罗纳德威尔逊里根，,美国,第40任,总统,，是历任总统之中就职年龄最大，又是历任总统中唯一的一位演员出身的总统。大学毕业后，里根成为一名电台体育播音员，后进入好莱坞华纳兄弟电影公司当电影和电视演员。,第二次世界大战,期间应征入伍，在空军服役。退伍后重返好莱坞，共参加了53部电影的演出。1962年、1976年两次争取共和党提名总统候选人，均未成功。1980年再次争取，被提名，并在竞选中击败卡特而获胜。1984年谋求连任成功。,About the speaker:,里根执政期间，提出一项旨在压缩政府开支、减少国营事业、降低通货膨胀率的政治改革方案，收效甚微。在他任职末期，是美国历史上持续时间最长的、没有经济衰退和经济萧条的和平时期。对外，对苏联等社会主义国家采取强硬立场，并提出了“星球大战方案。他是中美两国建交后首位在任时访华的美国总统。1989年1月里根任期届满。2004年6月5日，93岁的里根去世。,1.Background of the Text,By order of Adolf Hitler,the German armies poured across the Polish frontier on the morning of September 1,1939-without a declaration of war.Two days later Great Britain and France declared war aginst Germany.But Poland was defeated within four weeks by the Germans who had developed a new kind of warfare called blitzkrieg(“lightning warfare),which centered around the use of tanks and planes to achieve mobility and surprise.Then in April,1940,Hilter turned west and conquered Denmark and Norway.,2.Background of the Text,On May 10,1940,Hitler ordered his troops to cross the borders of Holland and Belgium and drive into France.Within six weeks the compaign was over.Holland,Belgium and Luxembourg had surrendered as had Fracnce.The Gremans occupied Paris and about tow-thirds of the country.But in other parts of the world,Frenchmen continued their fight agiant the Nazis under the leadership of General de Gaulle.After the fall of France,Grerman planes began to bomb England.Buildings and homes were destroyed.Thousands of people were killed.But the British,with Winston Churchill as their wartime leader,refused to give up.The British Air Force destroyed so many enemy planes that the air raids became fewer and subsided in June,1941,when Hitler began to invade the Soviet Union.,3.Background of the Text,By then,the German and Italian armies had swept over most of Europe.Mussolini had seized Albania.Hitler had invaded Yugoslavia and Greece.German and Italian troops had meanwhile occupied most of North Africa.,On June 22,1941,Hitler lanuched his long-planned attack on the Soviet Union.It was a surprise attack and German armies drove deep into Soviet territory.,4.Background of the Text,On December 5,1941,the Germans arrived at the gates of Moscow,but the next day they were thrown back.It was the first German defeat in the war.Then from September 1942 to February 1943,a decisive battle was fought at Stalingrad.The German Sixth Army of 300,000 were trappped by the Soviet army and forced to surrender.The Sovet victory at Stalingrad was the turning point of the war.After this battle,the Soviet Red Army began to advance and the German forces began to retreat.,5.Background of the Text,The USA entered the war against the Axis powers(Germany,Italy and Japan)in December 1941,after Japanese planes bombed the American naval base at Pearl Harbor,Hawaii.In November 1942,American troops landed in North Africa,and togther with the French and British,they completed the defeat of the Axis forces in Africa.Then from North Africa,the Allies invaded Italy in August,1943.Mussolini fled and the fascist government of Italy fell.,6.Background of the Text,On June 6,1944,“D-Day,Amrican,British and Canadian forces landed in Normandy,France,and opened the second front in Europe(the Soviet Union being the first front).In March 1945,the Allied forces began pouring into Germany from both the west and the east.The Soviet army took Berlin on May 2,1945.Two days earlier,Hitler had killed himself.On May 7,Germany surrendered.,Questions,1.Why did the ceremonies honoring the fortieth anniversary of D-Day become more than,commemorations?,2.What inspired the armymen to risk their lives to fight against the Nazi troops?,3.Why was June 6 named the D-day?,4.Why did Ronald Reagan address the veterans as boys?,5.Name a few of the countries who joined the Allied army.,6.What adjectives were employed by the speaker to describe the Rangers mission to climb the cliffs and take out the enemy guns?,7.What were the casualties for the Rangers after two day
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