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Text A    Disney World
 

     When you reach the terminal, you walk straight into a little square, which faces Main Street. The Main Street is of late 19th century. There are modern shops inside the buildings, but all the facades are of the period. There are hanging baskets full of red and white flowers, and there is no traffic except a horse-drawn street car and an ancient double-decker bus. Yet as you walk through the Magic Kingdom, You are actually walking on top a network of underground roads. This is how the shops, restaurants and all the other material needs of the Magic Kingdom are invisibly supplied.     
      The Magic Kingdom provides more than amusement. It instructs as well. Almost everywhere you go. There are models of people (and animals.)There is, for example, the Hall of Fame, which displays models of all the American Presidents since George Washington. A feature of Disney World is that the models move and talk most realistically. The Presidents talk, using the actual words they once used as living Presidents. Then there’s the Carousel of Progress, in which you follow the life of an American family through four generations, starting in the 1890s and finishing in the 1970s. Pa does all the talking .He does not change throughout the years, nor does his dog, which constantly wags its tail. But Pa’s clothes change, and so do the furniture, and above all, the equipment in the kitchen. Pa remains cheerful and optimistic, and he clearly thinks progress is wonderful .At the end of every scene he says, “Electricity has improved all our lives. What a marvelous age we live in!” Then you suddenly realize that the show has been presented by the General Electric Corporation!

 
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