标准美语发音的13个秘诀 CD 4 Track 43（在线收听）

Exercise 11 -6: Pick a Peak       CD 4 Track 43

Repeat the following paragraph and words after me. Boldfaced elements represent the [ē] sound. The [i] is only marked with underscoring.

People who pick peaks weekly seem to need to appear deep in order to bedistinguished from mere peapickers. Peter, a champion peak picker, thought he'd be even neater if he were the deepest peak picker in Peoria, Phoenix, and New Zealand. On his peak peak picking week, though, Peter, a peak picker's peak picker, realized that hewas not deep. This is not easy for a peak picker to admit and it pitched Peter into a pit of peak picking despair. Hewas pitiful for six weeks and then lifted himself to hitherto unrevealed personal peaks.

eat / it sheep / ship seat / sit  neat / nit feet/ fit sleep / slip