【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^^）

Government lawyers are defending the Child Online Protection Act, or COPA, against the challenge from the American Civil Liberties Union. COPA requires the owners of sexually-oriented commercial websites to keep minors out. The ACLU says the law ___1___ free speech protections. In order to defend COPA, federal prosecutors need ___2___ help them look at current filtering systems, says Tom Lee, a former Justice Department lawyer who worked on the case. "And it valuate how effective various filtering softwares' filtering mechanisms would be at preventing access to offensive material on the Internet." AOL, MSN and Yahoo have all given the Justice Department the information ___3___. But Google has refused to comply with the request. The government wants a list of all search terms entered into the company's search engine during an unspecified single week. In addition, prosecutors want one million randomly selected web addresses from Google's databases. In a letter to the Justice Department, Google lawyers objected to the request saying such information would reveal ___4___ and it was ___5___ than intended to hurrahs.

词汇:

1.sexually-oriented 性导向

2.violate

v. 违犯,亵渎,干扰

例句与用法:
I'm committed not to violate the rules.
我有义务不违反规定。
The country violated the international agreement.
这个国家违反了国际协议。

3.valuate

vt. 对...作估价,对.作评价

4.randomly

adv. 任意地,随便地,胡乱地

5.hurrah

n. 欢呼声,骚动,欢乐
v. 欢呼,以欢呼迎接,呼万岁
int. 万岁

例句与用法:
Hurrah for the Queen!
女王万岁！