名人西部印记People Put Mark on American West.docVIP

Background Knowledge 背景知识淘金热与美国的西进运动 十九世纪初，美国开始了势不可当的西进运动，使美国的边疆从密西西比河不断向太平洋西岸推进。一八四八年，前进到加利福尼亚的人们在这里发现了金矿，立刻引起世界的轰动，迅速形成规模空前的淘金热，并对西进运动和美国西部的开发产生了极大的刺激。 News Transcript 新闻正文词数：215 录音时长：1分40秒215词People Put Mark on American West 2010-03-11名人西部印记Many men and women helped to shape popular images of the American West. Some of these people can be seen in a show at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. FRANK GOODYEAR: The individuals who you see pictured along this wall are all important players in that development. He says people from many different places and occupations influenced the development of the American West. For example, Theodore Roosevelt When Roosevelt became president, he transformed this love of the West into concrete legislation, setting aside lands for national parks, national forests, initiating a vigorous national debate about conservation.Levi Strauss comes to recognize that great fortunes can be made during the Gold Rush by supplying miners with the goods that they need, and makes a tremendous fortune with his 501 jeans.The show has pictures of explorers, there are also pictures of artists and photographers.Writer Samuel Clemens also was important. Sam Clemens, the pen name Mark Twain, really is the first individual to bring a kind of Western voice to American literature. Goodyear says the National Portrait Gallery show covers eighty years during a time of great changes. During this period, Native Americans and non-natives fought several well-publicized battles. Workers completed a railroad across the country. And the modern-day environmental movement was born. Breakthrough听力破解When Roosevelt became president, he transformed this love of the West into concrete legislation, setting aside lands for national parks, national forests, initiating a vigorous national debate about conservation.这个句子比较长，是复合句，When引起的句子时状语从句，主干部分是he transformed this love into concrete legislation，后面的动名词短语并列作状语，解释说明前面的内容。Levi Strauss comes to recognize that gr