一、泛聽建議:
1、完整聽一遍,掌握大意。
2、繼續(xù)聽,特別注意關鍵信息。遇到相似的詞,寫下來。
Chicago was trying to recover from two nights' of gun violence. The Chicago Suntimes reports four people _1_ overnight in separate shootings, this is after a mass shooting at a Chicago park Thursday evening injuried 13 people including a three-year-old boy. A spokesman for his family says he is recovering from surgery.
芝加哥正努力從兩個晚上所發(fā)生的槍支暴力中恢復。據(jù)《芝加哥太陽報》報道,晚上發(fā)生的獨立槍擊案中有4人受傷,在此之前,周四晚上芝加哥一公園發(fā)生大規(guī)模槍擊案,造成13人受傷,其中還包括一名3歲男童。該男童家人的一名發(fā)言人表示,男孩已經(jīng)做完手術目前正在恢復中。
Some 300 people gathered in Kansas city today for the lastest and series of community forums on mental health. As Monica Sandrarich reports from member station KCUR.
今天,約300人聚集在堪薩斯城,參加最新一期的心理健康社區(qū)論壇。KCUR成員站的莫妮卡·桑德拉里奇將帶來報道。
It's part of a national _2_ by president Obama after last year's mass shooting in Sandy Hook elementary school in Connecticut. Kansas city is one of ten cities holding forums to assess mental health problems _3_ its communities, especially its young people. Health & Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius told the group most violence crimes is not _4_ by people suffering from mental illness, but she added that most people diagnosed with mental or substance abuse problems do not receive medical care.
這是去年康涅狄格州桑迪·胡克小學發(fā)生大規(guī)模槍擊案之后,奧巴馬總統(tǒng)提議進行的全國對話的一部分??八_斯城是10個舉辦這種論壇的城市之一,論壇旨在評估影響社區(qū)的心理健康問題,尤其是對年輕人的影響。美國人類與健康服務部部長凱瑟琳·西貝柳斯告訴這個群體,大部分暴力犯罪都不是由患有心理疾病的人實施的,但是她說,大部分患有心理疾病或是濫用藥物的人都沒有接受醫(yī)療照顧。
"That is a situation that is a tragedy, we would never let that happen if 60% of people _5_ with cancer or who had heart attacks, or had an open wound, we wouldn't let that happen in this country. That's what we have to change."
“這種情況就是悲劇,對60%患有癌癥或心臟病的人或是那些有開放性傷口的人,我們絕不會讓這種情況發(fā)生,我們不會讓這種情況在我們國家發(fā)生。而那就是我們必須要做出改變的事情。”
Sebelius told the administration a portable carry-out which includes mental coverage in a mental health act . For NPR News, I am Monica Sandrarich.
西貝柳斯向政府提出了一個簡便的執(zhí)行方案,這就包括在精神衛(wèi)生法中涵蓋心理健康保險。
詞匯解析:
1、forum
n. 論壇,討論會;法庭;公開討論的廣場
eg:But this Forum tells us it can be done.
但本論壇告訴我們這是可以做到的。
2、diagnose 診斷;斷定
eg:How did they diagnose you?
他們怎么給你的診斷的?
參考答案:
1、were killed 2、initiated 3、affecting
4、committed 5、identified