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| 发布时间：2006-9-1 12:34:59 | 信息来源：本站原创 | 浏览： | |
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Woman: In this movie, in 2022 ...
Man: Yeah?
Woman: ... New York has forty million people.
Man: Ouch!
Woman: And twenty million of them are unemployed.
Man: How many people live in New York now? About seven or eight million?
Woman: Yeah, I think that's right.
Man: Mm-hmm. You know, if it's hard enough to find an apartment now in New York City, what's it going to be like in 2022?
Woman: Well, in this movie most people have no apartment. So thousands sleep on the steps of buildings. (Uh-huh.) People who do have a place to live have to crawl over sleeping people to get inside. And there are shortages of everything. The soil is so polluted that nothing will grow. (Ooo.) And the air is so polluted they never see the sun. It's really awful.
Man: I think I'm going to avoid going to New York City in the year 2022.
Woman: And there was this scene where the star, Charlton Heston, goes into a house where some very rich people live.
Man: Uh-huh.
Woman: He can't believe it, because they have running water and they have soap.
Man: Really?
Woman: And then he goes into the kitchen and they have tomatoes and lettuce and beef. He almost cries because he's never seen real food in his life, you know, especially the beef. It was amazing for him.
Man: Well, if most people have no real food, what do they eat?
Woman: They eat something called soylent .
Man: Soylent?
Woman: Yeah. There's soylent red and soylent yellow and soylent green. The first two are made out of soybeans. But the soylent green is made out of ocean plants. (Ugh.) The people eat it like crackers. That's all they have to eat.
Man: That sounds disgusting.
Woman: Well, you know, it really isn't that far from reality.
Man: No?
Woman: Yeah. Because, you know the greenhouse effect that's beginning now and heating up the earth ...
Man: Oh, yeah, I've heard about that.
Woman: ... because we're putting the pollutants in the atmosphere, you know?
Man: Mm-hmm.
Woman: I mean, in this movie New York has ninety degrees weather all year long. And it could really happen. Uh ... like now, we ... we have fuel shortages. And in the movie there's so little electricity that people have to ride bicycles to make it.
Man: You know something? I don't think that movie is a true prediction of the future.
Woman: I don't know. It scares me. I think it might be.
Man: Really?
Woman: Well, yeah.
The native Americans, the people we call the 'Indians', had been in America for many thousands of years before Christopher Columbus arrived in 1492. Columbus thought he had arrived in India, so he called the native people 'Indians'.
The Indians were kind to the early settlers. They were not afraid of them and they wanted to help them. They showed the settlers the new world around them; they taught them about the local crops like sweet potatoes, corn and peanuts; they introduced the Europeans to chocolate and to the turkey; and the Europeans did business with the Indians.
But soon the settlers wanted bigger farms and more land for themselves and their families. More and more immigrants were coming from Europe and all these people needed land. So the Europeans started to take the land from the Indians. The Indians had to move back into the centre of the continent because the settlers were taking all their land. |
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