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^^）

　　Stewart Selman started recording his audio diary on February 22, 2003. His first entry was made while he was in the hospital awaiting tests, ___1___ in his room at two in the morning. It had been two weeks since he first learned about his brain tumor.

　　"We ___2___ five minutes from where the CAT scan was done. I was kind of keeping it together," Stewart said. " This was a big deal. I drove home and my kids were ___3___. I went upstairs and I saw my wife and I just started crying…I knew I had this brain tumor. And I knew my life was going to change forever."

　　"Yeah, I remember that," Stewart’s wife, Rebecca Peterson, is hearing this tapes for the first time. She says she hasn’t felt ready to listen to them until now. It has been ___4___ since Stewart died.

　　"I remember him coming home and the door slamming -- before the door even slammed, he was yelling out my name and ___5___. And he just held me and I was like, 'What? What? What can it be…'" Rebecca recalled.

　　参考答案：

　　1.awake alone

　　2.only wait about

　　3.downstairs

　　4.almost a year

　　5.barrering upstairs