英语提高版2B A History Lecture

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　　Situation 2:
        　　A History Lecture
        　　(Sitting down in the back of the lecture hall.)
        　　I thought for sure I'd be late.
        　　Hey,Mike.You are late,but so is Professor Clark.
        　　He's getting old,maybe he forgot about class today.
        　　We should be so lucky.No,I'm just happy that he's later
        　　than me.I was really worried.
        　　Oh,here he comes.
        　　Prof.Clark:(Entering from the front of the room
        　　and walking up to the podium.)
        　　Good morning class,or should I say good afternoon?
        　　Twelve o'clock classes always confuse me.
        　　In any case,let's begin today's lecture.Today I want to speak
        　　about the American Civil War,which I am assuming
        　　all of you read about last week in the book
        　　by Huntington.The Civil War can be
        　　analyzed in many ways,but today I want to
        　　discuss it as a result of economics.The northern United
        　　States industrialized rather earlyand so had little need
        　　for slave labor in their society.The southern states,
        　　on the other hand,had an economy based
        　　on agriculture,particularly cotton.
        　　This caused a much higher demand for
        　　slavesto supply manual labor in the fields.Eventually,this funda-
        　　mental difference in economic structuresled to a difference in
        　　ideology.And,as ideological differences often do,
        　　this led to a conflict which eventually resulted in war.
        　　In this way,the Civil War is not unlike the
        　　Cold War between the United Statesand the Soviet Union,
        　　which was also largely caused by differing economic systems.