NPR边听边练06:日子要怎么过(在线收听

   【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^^)
  This winter will bring with it some sticker shock. Economists say heating your home could cost almost 50% more than ____(1)___. A lot of that extra cost is due to hurricanes Katrina and Rita which wrecked many oil and gas rigs and pipelines in the Gulf of Mexico. The cost of consumer goods from shampoo to auto tires ____(2)____. Even the air could get dirtier. NPR's Christopher Joyce has more on the ongoing hurricane effect. This winter may be rough for Dorothy Tucker in Mannford Massachusetts. She is an 83-year-old retired heath worker on the fixed income. The hurricanes ___(3)___ her already high fuel prices even higher. Tucker ___(4)___ to an energy sub-committee in Congress, where democrat Edward Mackey in Massachusetts asked she how she managed. " Where do you get the extra money for what could wide up? ___(5)___ an extra eight hundred or a thousand dollars?" "Nobody knows when I don't eat. And a lot of people that have my income, we are proud we don't tell".
  答案:
  1.it did last year
  2.could also go up
  3.will make
  4.was invited to tell her story
  5.It sounds like to me
  原文地址:http://www.tingroom.com/lesson/nprbtbl/251448.html