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[size=2]One of the most popular [color=red][b]myths神化,虚构的故事[/b][/color] about the United States in the 19th century was that of the free and simple life about the farmer.It was said that farmers worked hard on their own land to produce whatever their families needed.They might sometimes trade with neighbors but in general they could get along just fine by relying on themselves,not on commercial [color=red][b]ties[/b][/color] with others.NU3g-]ts6@?4\
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This is how Thomas Jefferson idealized the farmer at the begining of the 19th century.And at that time,this may have been close to the truth.Especially on the[color=red][b] frontier国境,边界,靠近为开发地带的边远地区[/b][/color].But by mid century[color=blue],[b][u]sweeping changes in agriculture were well under way as farmers began to specialize in the raising of crops such as cotton or corn or wheat.[/u][/b][/color]
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By late in the century,revolutionary advances in farm nachinery had vastly increased production of specialized crops.And the [color=red][b]extensive广大的,广阔的[/b][/color] network of railroads had linker farmers throughout the country to markets in the East and even overseas.By raising and selling specialized crops,farmers could afford more and finer goods and achieve a much higher standard of living bt at a price.
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Now farmers were no longer dependent just on the weather and their own efforts.[b][u]Their lives were increasingly controlled by banks,which had power to[color=dimgray] grand? [/color][color=red]grant同意,准予,转让,承认[/color] to deny loans for new machinery,and by the railroads,which[color=blue] set没听出来[/color] the rates for shipping their crops to market[/u][/b].As businessmen,farmers now had to worry about national economic depressions and the influence of world supply and demand on,for example the price of wheat in Kansas.%^J0IUrL'R
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历史类,第21篇
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Moving away from newspapers,let's now focus on magazines.Now the first magazine was a little [color=red][b]periodical定期的,周期性的 [/b][/color]called the review,andd it was started in London in 1704.It looked a lot like the newspapers of the time.But in terms of its content,it was much different.Newspapers were concerned mainly with new events,but the review focused on important [color=blue][b]domestic家的,家庭的,本地的[/b][/color] issue of the day,as well as the [color=blue][b]policies政策,方针[/b][/color] the government.
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Now in England at the time,people could still be thrown in jail for publishing articles that were[color=red] [b]critical批判性的[/b][/color] of the king.And that's what happened to Daniel D..He was the [b][color=blue]outspoken直率的,毫无保留的[/color][/b] founder of the review.D actually wrote the first issue of the review from prison.You see,he had been arrested because his writtings that criticized the policies of the chuich of England which was headed by the king.!wij+|Y
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After hisrelease,D continued to produce the review.and the magazine started to appear on a more frequent schedule about three times a week.It didnt take long for other magazines to start popping up.In 1709,the magazine clled the T.. began publication.This new magazine contained a mixture of news [u][b]poetry诗[/b],[b]political analysis社会分析[/b] and [b][color=red]philosophical essays哲学论文[/color][/b].;~0Q
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前一篇句子好长。。OMG。周三一天课的日子也算是过去了。。
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carrot萝卜 2008-5-29 21:14
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异常痛苦。。。听了超级久。。。感觉完全没follow到人家的tempo....
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算是磕磕巴巴写下来了。。。我再听去。。。:BA&\7k#`n1E4?
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There's an art exhibition here on campus which [color=red][b]ties in well[/b][/color] with the discussions we're had about folk art.It's an exhibition of art [color=blue][b]calendars历法,记事簿[/b][/color] from about a 100 years ago.8_1TlF6KlV!mo
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Like most other folk art,the calendar pictures were not considered to be art in their old own day.People just thought of them as a way of [color=red][b]decorating装饰,装修[/b][/color] a pratical object.In fact the calendar pictures were originally printed as advertising for various companies that made hunting of fishing products,like guns or fishing[color=blue][b] rods树枝,荆条[/b][/color].The calendars were handed out free to customers to thank them for their business.[color=darkgreen][u][b]Most people just hung the calendars on their walls where the pictures faced faded in the sun,and them t..tore the picture off the calendar as each month passed[/b][/u].[/color]As a result,collectors today place a lot of value on calendars that are complete and in good.condition.
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