文档介绍：College English
Book 2 Unit 7
There is Only Luck
Part I Background Information
Part II
Text & Listening
Part III
New Words & Expressions
Part IV
Supplement
Unit 7
Part I Background Information
About the Author
Structure of a House
Gun’ponents
American Criminal Issues
Crime in Other Countries
About the Author ----Ruth Reichl
American novelist and artist
The author of many best-sellers
Chef in Berkeley during the 1970s' California food revolution
Editor in chief of Gourmet - a post held since 1999
One of the most significant culinary personalities of the last 30 years.
She wrote three memoirs, including the 2006 Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise, which talks about her six years as food critic of the New York Times.
She is also the editor of The Modern Library Food Series and all of the Gourmet books.
Structure of a House
Gun’ponents
American Criminal Issues
1)The crime rate in America is decreasing?
Victimization
Levels
2) Changes in Crime Rates
3) What impact do handguns have on America's crime problem?
The . has the most heavily armed citizenry in the world. It is estimated that some 223 million guns are available to the general public, and that roughly 135,000 children carry guns to school each day. Each year, the FBI receives about 274,000 reports of stolen guns.