• What clear vision did the Americans have after the September 11 terror attacks?
• Why did Alan Greenspan think that the U.S. economy could recover from the attacks and prosper as before?
• What was the direct impact of the attacks on the airplane industry?
• What happened to the Dow Jones industrial average?
• What did the U.S. government do counteract the attacks?
• How much did a taxi driver earn in Washington D.C. before the terror attacks?
• What will businesses do in the face of difficulty, as mentioned in the passage?
• How did the oil prices go after the attacks?
• What is the uncertainty effect in the wake of the terror attacks?
• Why might the gift sales go up after the attacks?
• How could the insurance industry fare through the crisis?

• 友谊无价
• 她将面临大的烦恼。
• 他想买一个房子，为此正在攒钱。
• 这个丑闻已传遍各地。
• 那家公司因为经营不善而破产了。
• 对大多数中国人来说，小汽车仍然是件昂贵的东西。
• 你上周去的面试怎么样？
• 那个医院的医生护士日夜工作帮助那些在火车撞车事故中受伤的人。
• 我们确实需要清除掉我们头脑中对残疾人的偏见。
• 虽然这座城市的发展要比其他城市的好，但失业依然是个问题。

The terror attacks had a significant economic impact on the United States and world markets. The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), the American Stock Exchange and NASDAQ did not open on September 11 and remained closed until September 17. NYSE facilities and remote data processing sites were not damaged by the attack, but member firms, customers and markets were unable to communicate due to major damage to the telephone exchange facility near the World Trade Center. When the stock markets reopened on September 17, 2001, after the longest closure since the Great Depression in 1929, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) stock market index fell 684 points, or 7.1%, to 8920, its biggest-ever one-day point decline. By the end of the week, the DJIA had fallen 1369.7 points (14.3%), its largest one-week point drop in history. U.S. stocks lost $1.2 trillion in value for the week.

The economy of Lower Manhattan, which by itself is the third-largest business district in the United States was devastated in the immediate aftermath. Thirty percent of Lower Manhattan office space was either damaged or destroyed. The 41-story Deutsche Bank Building, neighboring the World Trade Center, was subsequently closed because extensive damage made it unfit for habitation and beyond repair and it was scheduled for demolition. Power, telephone and gas were cut off in much of Lower Manhattan. Citizens were not permitted to enter the SoHo and Lower Manhattan area without extensive inspection. Much of what was destroyed was valuable Class-A space. The pre-2001 trend of moving jobs out of Lower Manhattan to Midtown and New Jersey was accelerated. Many questioned whether this loss of jobs and its associated tax base would ever be restored.