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今天的練習內容來自 The Atlantic，文章的標題為 Capitalism's Favorite Drug，朗讀部分為文章的開頭。
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朗讀內容
Capitalism’s Favorite Drug
The dark history of how coffee took over the world
By Michael Pollan
Four hundred years ago, Coffea arabica, a tropical shrub bearing glossy green leaves and bright-red berries, was virtually unknown outside of the Arab world and the corner of Ethiopia where it had been discovered in the ninth century—by a goatherd who, legend has it, noticed that his animals would get frisky and stay up all night after nibbling its berries. In the years since people figured out that coffee could affect us in similar ways, the plant has done a great deal for our species, and our species in turn has done a great deal for the plant. We have given it more than 27 million acres of new habitat all around the world, assigned 25 million farming families to its care and feeding, and bid up its price until it became one of the most valuable globally traded crops. Not bad for a shrub that is neither edible nor particularly beautiful or easy to grow.
Coffee owes its global ascendancy to a fortuitous evolutionary accident: The chemical compound that the plant makes to defend itself against insects happens to alter human consciousness in ways we find desirable, making us more energetic and industrious—and notably better workers. That chemical of course is caffeine, which is now the world’s most popular psychoactive drug, used daily by 80 percent of humanity. (It is the only such drug we routinely give to our children, in the form of soda.) Along with the tea plant, which produces the same compound in its leaves, coffee has helped create exactly the kind of world that coffee needs to thrive: a world driven by consumer capitalism, ringed by global trade, and dominated by a species that can now barely get out of bed without its help.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/04/michael-pollan-coffee/606805/
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什麼是清晨朗讀會？
這裡就是清晨朗讀會。我每天早上6點左右發送可以模仿和朗讀的材料，包括語音和文本。希望我們能夠每天一起練習。
如何使用此練習材料
較理想的狀態
先聽一遍我讀的語音（最好第一遍不看原文）
再聽一遍，這次跟著模仿（聽不懂你模仿的沒關係，跟不上也沒關係，就儘量模仿你聽到的音！）
朗讀一遍原文
這個時候才花點時間查不懂的內容（但查詢的時間不要超過總練習時間的三分之一！）
1-3步驟再重複2－3遍
發到朋友圈裡，告訴朋友你今天練了英語！（對我來講，日常的轉發與分享是最大的支持和幫助，提前感謝！）
起碼要達到的狀態
聽一遍
跟著模仿一遍
朗讀一遍
足跡
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