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^^）

Lesson15 A Way To Catch a Thief

Old Mrs. Robinson was a widow who lived alone 1 . Her son John lived with his wife and child in another street, and he often said to his mother, "You must come and live with us," but she always answered, "No, I'm very happy 2 house, and I don't want to leave it."
At eight o'clock one morning the old woman telephoned her son and said, 'Please come to my house.' Then she put the phone down. John said to his wife, "Mother wants me. Perhaps she's ill. I'll go down to have a look." He quickly drove to his mother's house. When the old woman opened the door, her son asked, " 3 , Mother?"
"Come in,"she answered. "There's a thief in one of my cupboards."
"A thief in one of your cupboards?" said John."When did you find him?"
"I heard noises in a cupboard yesterday evening," she answered.
"Which one?" John asked 4 . They were in the dining room now.
"That one," the old woman answered.
"Why didn't you telephone me then?"John asked.
"Because it was late, and I didn't want to trouble you," she answered.
"But the thief hasn't stayed in the cupboard all night, has he?"asked John.
"Oh, yes, he has,"the old woman answered. "I 5 the door up, and then I went to bed."

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