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1、1Unit Seven The Power of Spirit Section APre-reading Questions1. What do you know about the September 11 attacks in America? 2. Why do terrorist attacks happen so frequently in todays world?3. It is important for family members to care about each other when they are in a difficult situation. Can you
2、 give an example?September 11, 2001 was a nightmarish day for the American people. The horrible attacks claimed many peoples lives. The ones who survived have to go through sufferings physically and psychologically. However, with love and support from their families the survivors are starting to get
3、 their lives back. Invincible1 On a warm late afternoon in New York City, Lauren Manning breezes through the door with a sunny smile to meet us, her husband, Greg, at her side. A white medical sleeve covers her left hand following a recent operation, but her outstretched right hand is beautifully ma
4、nicured. “Oh, this was a big deal,” she says with enthusiasm. “I dont have that many nails left I lost parts of a few fingers on my left hand and one of my nails grows strangely. So this manicure was huge. A milestone.”2 Every day since September 11, 2001, has been a milestone for Lauren Manning. Bu
5、rned over 82 percent of her body in the World Trade Center attack, she was given just a 15 percent chance of surviving. Now, a little more than two years later, she is planning a third-birthday party for her son, Tyler. “I just visited the Childrens Zoo in Central Park where were going to have it,”
6、she says. “I didnt grow up with parties like this, but hes our only child and it brings us great pleasure.”23 “Whats great,” says Greg, “is that Lauren will be there. There was a time when we couldnt be sure about this.” 4 Lauren still remembers lying in the brilliant sunshine on the green grass out
7、side the World Trade Center in unspeakable pain yet “seeing every blade of grass with razor precision,” she says. Walking into the north tower, unaware that a plane had struck, she had been engulfed by a fireball as jet fuel poured down an elevator shaft and exploded. On her back in the midst of the
8、 horror, debris raining down around her, Lauren made the decision to live for Greg and for Tyler, then 10 months old.5 Greg had watched the towers burning from the balcony of their apartment and was certain his wife was dead. When he found her later that morning at St. Vincents Hospital, he told her
9、 she would be fine and prayed that she would. During the next few months he wrote a collection of heartbreaking e-mails to family and friends documenting her day-to-day battle. They were compiled in a bestselling book, Love, Greg & Lauren, which has been issued in paperback.6 As she told a conventio
10、n of occupational therapists in Pennsylvania several months ago, “As injured as I was, it was almost impossible to imagine I would ever regain meaningful function.” But for Lauren, it was never going to be enough simply to survive. “I wanted my life back. I wanted to dial the phone, drive the car, s
11、wing a golf club, all the things Id taken for granted before. Most of all, I wanted to be able to pick up and hold my son.”Finding Strength7 The milestones sitting up, standing, taking a step accumulated. On December 11, three months after the attack, Lauren 3walked on her own out of the Burn Center
12、 to continue her treatment at Burke Rehabilitation Center in suburban White Plains, where she would live for the next three months. At Burke, Lauren began a rigorous regimen of physical and occupational therapy. And the biggest obstacle of all was her hands. 8 “There would be good days and bad days,
13、 breakthroughs and days when Id feel like I couldnt do anything,” Lauren says, looking back. “I still remember the first stretching of my fingers when almost every movement brought intense pain.” As she moved through the exercise and therapy sessions, tears would well up in her eyes. But she simply
14、refused to stop. “Im fine,” she would tell the therapists. “Just keep going.”9 Lauren has now had more than 20 surgeries, seven in 2003 alone complex skin grafts, scar revisions with more still to come. To get through each day, she has needed 24-hour assistance from two women who work in 12-hour shi
15、fts. Just getting dressed is daunting for her.10 In August 2003, to her relief, the required time was cut in half; now she wears the garments for 12 hours at night. “Oh, freedom!” she exclaims. “If Greg or Tyler and I are going someplace, I can now just run out the door without all that paraphernali
16、a. I used to need help just getting a jacket on. Now I can put it on myself.”11 Lauren hasnt been back to the office to visit “Its not the time yet,” she says. She did speak at the firms Central Park memorial on the anniversary of 9/11. She asked families and friends to clap instead of standing for a moment of prayer. “I want to clap until my arms ache,” she told them, “to make so much noise that God ca
