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这是从上面材料中截取的一段。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？

We are in a transition market place, so right now even though the housing market are cooling prices are not__1__ at all in most of the nation’s housing markets. So the rents now are getting stark. The renter now is being__2__ greater demand for rentals, because people are__3__ properties to own. Eventually as this market complete the transition, if in some of these hot mortgage prices begin to soften,,
__4__begins to improve and renters hopefully can get back into the buying market place and buy.

参考答案:

1，chief economist with the National Association of Realtors
2, dropping significantly; faced with; postponing purchasing; affordability