TPO57听力Lecture4原文+MP3+题目+答案下载

TPO57听力Lecture4原文+MP3+题目+答案下载

TPO57听力Lecture4原文：

listen to part of a lecture in a united states history class. i'd like to talk today about about an important paradigm in the history of the united states and how it came to be changed upon a second look in 1893, an eminent American historian by the name of frederick Jackson turner delivered a lecture at the American historical association. and his lecture was entitled the significance of the frontier in American history. now when he was talking about the frontier, he was referring to the part of the American west that wasn't yet settled. the pouring term made in his lecture was that the 1890 US senses had provided new data about settlement.

and those data showed show that, well, there was no longer a frontier. this disappearance of the frontier seemed to him tremendously significant and prompted him to to gather ideas about how the frontier might have shaped American history. And the American character, turner asserted that the existence of a frontier with cheaper or virtually Free land for the taking available for individuals to sort of try their luck tended to promote certain ideals that were central to the American character ideals of economic self sufficiency, individualism, political independence, small town democracy, suspicion of large government, things like that. he saw these things being really shaped by the economic and social conditions of the frontier. and for turner, the end of the frontier in 1890 meant the end of this particular era of American character. and that americans would become less individualistic, less independent minded. and the frontier thesis was pretty much the accepted paradigm of the history of the American west until the 1970s.

then, for a variety of reasons, historians studying the American west began to question this thesis. And ultimately many of them ended up pretty much turning it on its head. and this is what fascinates me about this debate. the change that happened was not so much a matter of people finding new evidence that hadn't been available to turner. it was more a question of people looking at the same evidence with a different eye with different emphases. 。。。。省略1000字

TPO57听力Lecture4题目：

1、What aspect of the American West is the lecture mainly about? 

A How it was affected by government policies in the 1900s 

B How corporations influenced its history 

C Different interpretations of its history 

D  Economic changes that took place there before 1890

2、What point did Turner emphasize in his lecture about the American frontier? 

A  Opportunities on the frontier were increasing. 

B  The frontier no longer existed. 

C Earlier historians had drawn incorrect conclusions about the frontier 

D  Settlement of the frontier should be encouraged

3 What point does the professor emphasize when she discusses the ideas of Turner and the New Western historians? 

A They came to different conclusions using the same evidence. 

B They failed to address crucial historical questions. 

C They presented similar stories of settlers from different places 

D They did not adequately account for economic factors.

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