新视野大学英语读写教程听力 第二册 unit9a_new

[06:13.32]At a book show in my hometown of Nagpur recently,
[06:20.09]large crowds of young people examined books on engineering and software
[06:27.32]Comments about "the Brain Drain" don't hold much water
[06:33.30]when every politician has a son or daughter aiming to go abroad.
[06:40.68]And why bother rebuilding the nation
[06:45.43]when the only goal is to abandon it?
[06:49.97]At the Nagpur book show, for example,
[06:54.50]the latest American social publications
[06:59.98]were conspicuous by their absence and India's politically conscious leadership
[07:07.43]has been replaced by a new generation,
[07:12.58]riding on the wave of the Internet, making fortunes within a span of years
[07:20.06]This new leadership has abandoned all talk of economic imperialism
[07:27.70]in favor of market economics.
[07:32.05]Indians now put flowers around Bill Gates' neck
[07:37.81]and offer him the kind of reception once offered only to the Queen
[07:44.36]And Thumbs Up is a branch of Coca-Cola.
[07:49.62]Mid-sized cities like Bangalore are now the Silicon Valleys of India
[07:57.68]their workers generate demand for the very products that they produce
[08:03.95]But the nation is slowly disintegrating.
[08:09.10]India's population recently hit 1 billion,
[08:14.14]but its interior framework in water,
[08:18.96]transportation and health care is fast falling apart;
[08:25.62]its citizens breathe air that is dangerously polluted.
[08:31.60]India had gone from an agricultural society to the cyber-revolution
[08:39.55]without passing through intermediate stages
[08:44.70]such as the welfare state and the creation of social services
[08:51.72]Perhaps it is time to pass legislation calling for a "Brain Trust"
[08:59.35]Funded by corporations like Microsoft and Intel
[09:05.33]which have drained India of its brains for decades,
[09:11.02]the trust could set up new institutes in India
[09:16.27]aimed at training students not in symbol manipulation, but in social thought
[09:24.44]Such an effort is our only hope of creating the social structure needed