NPR边听边练43:那个雪天,我的父亲

 　　【NPR边听边练】致力于提供新鲜有趣、饶有意味的时讯资料，致力于通过精听的方式促进听力提高，致力于不断开阔眼界和深入了解美国观点。

　　精听建议：

　　先完整地把一条新闻听一到三遍，争取掌握大意。然后，一句一句精听，力争每句话都听明白。遇到实在不懂的地方，再听写。

　　下面的文本材料中空缺部分里面要填的词都很简单，不过是一些值得注意的连读或者典型的美式发音哦，有些语速比较快。试试看，你能不能全部写对？

　　（参考文本，欢迎指出错误^^）

　　Any snowfall which brings traffic to a ___1___ and closes schools takes me back to one particular storm in my youth on the ___2___ of Lake Erie. On that day, schools and stores were closed because of the weather. What ___3___ for me is a six-block walk I took with my father from our house to the post office. He bought me stamps for my recently started stamp collection. I early had a wild assortment¹ of ___4___ stamps from around the world. He bought me brand new stamps. I can ___5___ in my mind, walking on snow-covered sidewalks in the streets. It was unusual to be going for a walk with my father on a weekday and so close to home. In the following years I never talked about that walk with him. I never even thought about it until it appeared to me about a decade² ago. A winter memory now return to the forefront.

　　参考答案：

　　1. stand-still

　　2. shores

　　3. resonates

　　4. cancelled

　　5. retrace the route

1 assortment   

n.分类，各色俱备之物，聚集

参考例句：

• This shop has a good assortment of goods to choose from.该店各色货物俱全，任君选择。
• She was wearing an odd assortment of clothes.她穿着奇装异服。

2 decade   

n.十年，十年期

参考例句：

• Prices have risen steadily during the past decade.过去的十年间，物价一直在上涨。
• The century has rounded into its ninth decade.本世纪已进入了90年代。