伊卡莱姆的ScalersTalk第四轮新概念朗读持续力训练Day

练习材料：

Lesson21-2 William S. Hart and the early 'Western' film

And although no period or place in American history has been more absurdly romanticized, mythand reality did join hands in at least one arena, the conflict between the individual and encroaching civilization.

Men accustomed to struggling for survival against the elements and Indians were bewildered by politicians, bankers and businessmen, and unhorsedby fences, laws and alien taboos. Hart's good-bad man was always an outsider, always one of the disinherited, and if he found it necessary to shoot a sheriff or rob a bank along the way, his early audiences found it easy to understand and forgive, especially when it was Hart who, in the end, overcame the attacking Indians.

Audiences in the second decade of the twentieth century found it pleasant to escape to a time when life, though hard, was relatively simple. We still do; living in a world in which undeclared aggression, war, hypocrisy, chicanery, anarchy and impending immolation are part of our daily lives, we all want a code to live by. 

应用配置：L0+L4

知识笔记： absurdly/    myth/    arena/    bewildered /    unhorsed/    audiences/

练习感悟：用时1小时22分，严重超时。篇幅长，生词多，最后一遍读错几个单词，但是时间原因，没再继续调整。