NPR邊聽邊練14:房價天高,房租看漲

【NPR邊聽邊練】致力于提供新鮮有趣、饒有意味的時訊資料，致力于通過精聽的方式促進(jìn)聽力提高，致力于不斷開闊眼界和深入了解美國觀點。

精聽建議：

先完整地把一條新聞聽一到三遍，爭取掌握大意。然后，一句一句精聽，力爭每句話都聽明白。遇到實在不懂的地方，再聽寫。

下面的文本材料中空缺部分里面要填的詞都很簡單，不過是一些值得注意的連讀或者典型的美式發(fā)音哦，有些語速比較快。試試看，你能不能全部寫對?

(參考文本，歡迎指出錯誤^^)

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.

答案：

1.chief economist with the National Association of Realtors

2.dropping significantly; faced with; postponing purchasing; affordability