NPR邊聽邊練34:詩歌能給我們帶來什么

【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^^)

I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions and traumatic events that come with being alive. When I was 12 years old, I was responsible for the death of my younger brother in a __1__accident. I __2__ that killed him. In a single moment, my world changed forever. I felt grief, terror, shame and despair more deeply than I __3__imagined. In the aftermath, no one in my shattered family could speak to me about my brother's death, and __4___ left me alone with all my agonizing emotions. And under those emotions, something even more terrible: a knowledge that all the easy meanings I had lived by until then had been suddenly and utterly abolished.One consequence of traumatic violence is that it isolates its victims. It can cut us off from other people, it can also cut us off from their own emotional lives until...

參考答案：

1 hunting

2 held the rifle

3 could ever have

4 their silence