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THE MAKING OF A NATION - Theodore Roosevelt Leads America into the 20th Century ? 配套节目资料下载 下载常见问题解答 节目资料名称 下载位置 MP3 声音下载 (3.53 M) 中国电信·南京 Real 声音下载 (2.33 M) 中国电信·南京 PDF 广播稿下载 (42 K) 中国电信·南京 下载提示：请用右键点下载链接，在弹出菜单上选“目标另存为...”。 LRC 歌词下载请用左键点击。仅限实名、高级会员使用。 当前词典：Dreye 译典通英汉词典（百度版） 窗体顶端 ?? 窗体底端 你知道吗？通过“词典功能设置”可以开启双击自动查词功能。 Written by Frank Beardsley (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a program in Special English by the Voice of America. (MUSIC) In September, nineteen-oh-one, President William McKinley was assassinated. His Vice President, Theodore Roosevelt, succeeded him. This is Shep oneal. Today,Maurice Joyce and I tell the story of Roosevelt and his administration. VOICE TWO: Theodore Roosevelt became president at the beginning of the twentieth century. It was a time of rapid changes in American society. The changes were a result of technology. Great progress had been made, for example, in transportation. Almost every American city had a street railroad, or trolley. These systems were powered by electricity. Thousands of Americans owned automobiles. And Henry Ford was planning a low-cost version which even more people could buy. Great progress had been made in communications. There were telephones in almost every business office in the cities and in many homes. And Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi had sent the first wireless message across the Atlantic Ocean. VOICE ONE: It was clear that the United States had made great progress in technology. Yet many believed it had made little progress in social issues. These people felt Americas natural resources were being mis-used. They felt Americas farmers were poorer than they should be. They felt Americas industries were unfair to workers. Since the late eighteen hundreds, a spirit of reform had been growing in the United States. It started among farmers and led to the creation of a new political party -- the Populists. Then organized labor joined the movement. Then middle class Americans. Not everyon