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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?
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Lesson38 A Stop Sign
Sam was a farmer. He was born on his farm and had lived on it 1 . He had married his neighbour's daughter, and they grew fruit and vegetables.
Sam got up at five o'clock every morning to gather them and 2 to the market in his truck.
There were very few vehicles on the country roads at that time of the morning and Sam knew how to get to the market very well. So as he was going along, he was always thinking about everything except his driving.
One morning he was thinking about what crops to plant for the next year's harvest, and whether to try something else. After a few kilometres, Sam came to an 3 a stop sign. He always crossed the road without stopping because there was never any traffic on it at that time of the morning.
But this morning a young policeman whom he had never seen before signalled to him to stop a hundred meters beyond the crossroads.
The policeman said to him, "Didn't you know that there was a sign telling you to stop at the crossroads before 4 the main road?"
"Oh, yes," answered Sam, "I knew that there was a sign 5 , because I go to market along this road every morning.
But what I didn't know was that you were here."
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