2015年12月英语四级听力VOA慢读练习21

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听力材料：
　　Over a century ago, Walter McClintock captured rareimages of Native Americans and their culture.McClintock was the son of a wealthy businessmanfrom Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He developed aninterest in the American West after he went there in1895 to recover from typhoid fever.
　　A year later, he returned to the West. This time hewent as a photographer. His job was to takepictures for a federal investigation of national forests. While there, he came into contact withthe Blackfoot community in northwestern Montana, and began a life-long interest in them.
　　Over the next 20 years, he took several thousand photographs of the Blackfoot Indians. Thename Blackfoot is thought to have come from the color of their footwear, which were painted ordarkened with ash.
　　Walter McClintock worried that the expanding American West would wipe out the Blackfoot.Fearful that their traditional culture would be lost, he recorded their way of life before itdisappeared.
　　McClintock wrote books and spoke in public about his experiences with the Blackfoot people.
　　During the early 1800s, the Blackfoot had about 20,000 members. However, their populationwas reduced to fewer than 5,000 by the early 20th Century. Starvation, war, and diseasebrought by white settlers had killed them.
　　Today, there are about 16,000 registered Blackfoot Indians living on the Blackfeet Reservation innorthwestern Montana on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains.
　　Sherry L. Smith, a writer and historian, says one of McClintock's favorite images was of aBlackfoot lodge. The structure gives off "a warm, radiant incandescence" from within. Shenoted that the photographer "tried his best to enter that lodge and explain its interior life toother Americans".
　　Below are some hand-colored, transparent, glass lantern slides Walter McClintock made aroundthe year 1900. A lantern slide is a photograph on a glass slide. It is often hand-painted to lookmore appealing. In McClintock's case, the pictures represent an idealized version of anendangered culture at the beginning of the modern age.