NPR邊聽邊練24:一年生活,一年死亡

【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^^)

Stewart Selman started recording his audio diary on February 22, 2003. His first entry was made while he was in the hospital awaiting tests, ___1___ in his room at two in the morning. It had been two weeks since he first learned about his brain tumor.

"We ___2___ five minutes from where the CAT scan was done. I was kind of keeping it together," Stewart said. " This was a big deal. I drove home and my kids were ___3___. I went upstairs and I saw my wife and I just started crying…I knew I had this brain tumor. And I knew my life was going to change forever."

"Yeah, I remember that," Stewart’s wife, Rebecca Peterson, is hearing this tapes for the first time. She says she hasn’t felt ready to listen to them until now. It has been ___4___ since Stewart died.

"I remember him coming home and the door slamming -- before the door even slammed, he was yelling out my name and ___5___. And he just held me and I was like, 'What? What? What can it be…'" Rebecca recalled.

參考答案：

1.awake alone

2.only wait about

3.downstairs

4.almost a year

5.barrering upstairs