新概念英语第四册听力内容：The modern city
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新概念英语第四册听力内容：
The modern
city
The modern
city
现代城市
First listen and then
answer the following question.
听录音，然后回答以下问题。
What is the author's main
argument about the modern city?
In the
organisation of industrial life the influence of
the factory upon the physiological and
mental state of the
workers has been
completely neglected. Modern industry is
based on the conception of the maximum
production at lowest
cost, in order
that an individual or a group of individuals
may earn as much money as possible. It
has expanded without
any idea of the
true nature of the human beings who run the
machines, and without giving any
consideration to the effects
produced
on the individuals and on their descendants by the
artificial mode of existence imposed by
the factory. The
great cities have been
built with no regard for us. The shape
and dimensions of the skyscrapers
depend entirely on the
necessity of
obtaining the maximum income per square foot of
ground, and of offering to the tenants
offices and apartments
that please
them. This caused the construction of gigantic
buildings where too large masses of
human beings are crowded
together.
Civilised men like such a way of living. While
they
enjoy the comfort and banal luxury
of their dwelling, they do
not realise
that they are deprived of the necessities of life.
The modern city consists of monstrous
edifices and of dark,
narrow streets
full of petrol fumes and toxic gases, torn by