【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^^)
I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions and traumatic events that come with being alive. When I was 12 years old, I was responsible for the death of my younger brother in a __1__accident. I __2__ that killed him. In a single moment, my world changed forever. I felt grief, terror, shame and despair more deeply than I __3__imagined. In the aftermath, no one in my shattered family could speak to me about my brother's death, and __4___ left me alone with all my agonizing emotions. And under those emotions, something even more terrible: a knowledge that all the easy meanings I had lived by until then had been suddenly and utterly abolished.One consequence of traumatic violence is that it isolates its victims. It can cut us off from other people, it can also cut us off from their own emotional lives until...
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1 hunting
2 held the rifle
3 could ever have
4 their silence
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