Lesson 12
A Village of Long Life
长寿村
一、长寿村
1、The village of Tao Yuan is situated at the foot of a mountain far away from metropolis.
2、It is well known for having many elders.
3、It has a population of three thousand and twenty of them have lived more than a hundred years.
二、长寿的生活
4、The villagers live a simple life and they have low consciousness on money and competition.
5、They eat what they grow by themselves and drink natural mineral spring water from the mountains.
6、Nearly everyone works in the fields everyday.
7、They are friendly to each other and arguments seldom happen in the village.
三、出名后的变化
8、As the village is often mentioned in newspapers and on TV, people have been coming to find ways on how to have a long life.
9、They buy vegetables and grain from the villagers.
10、The local government has made the village a tourist attraction.
11、A big firm has invested to build a plant near the village to produce bottled mineral spring water.
12、Many families have started home-restaurants to serve the visitors.
四、文明生活的代价
13、While people come from far to eat the villagers' domestic food, the local's own eating habits have been gradually changing.
14、Children have begun to enjoy drinking soft drinks such as Cola and fast food became popular in the village.
15、Many of them don't go to work on their lands.
16、They have learned to compete against each other; therefore, the relationships between them are not as good as they used to be.
17、In fact, as their weight increased, their life expectancy has started to decrease.
18、The number of elder villagers who are reaching over a hundred years old has dropped.
19、Maybe this is the price they pay for modernization.
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