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奥鹏远程教育中心 福师《听力口译》课程练习题解析 （一 Listen to This 2, L. 2, Section 2 American Indians 全文听译 解析：本题考点是全文的听写以及翻译，考题较难 本题的参考答案如下： The native Americans, the people we ca 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 ca ed 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 a 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 a their land. The Indians couldnt understand this. They had a very different idea of land from the Europeans. For the Indians, the land, the earth, was their mother. Everything came from their mother, the land, and everything went back to it. The land was for everyone and it was impossible for one man to own it. How could the White Man divide the earth into parts? How could he put fences round it, buy it and se it? Natura y, when the White Man started taking a the Indians land, the Indians started fighting back. They wanted to keep their land