NPR边听边练08:目睹那片萧条

 　　【NPR边听边练】致力于提供新鲜有趣、饶有意味的时讯资料，致力于通过精听的方式促进听力提高，致力于不断开阔眼界和深入了解美国观点。

　　精听建议：

　　先完整地把一条新闻听一到三遍，争取掌握大意。然后，一句一句精听，力争每句话都听明白。遇到实在不懂的地方，再听写。

　　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？

　　（参考文本，欢迎指出错误^^）

　　This morning we are going to talk to Cokie about the situation of her hometown New Orleans. Cokie has just returned from her first visit to New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina. She's ___(1)___ . "Cokie, welcome." "Thanks, Steve." " You spoke¹ to us on the morning the Hurricane hit, Monday Aug. 29 , and you said this about your home city :' it is a city that has withstood so many things over its ___(2)___ and the idea that the leeves could break is really something that is almost impossible to contemplate²." Now we had a couple of months to contemplate this and it's still hard to ___(3)___ ." Well, 'Cos you've been there, Steve. I had not and you have that experience, any of those who's covered disasters which ___(4)___. Where you usually see a terrible area and then you see normalcy. There is nothing normal. You ___(5)___ mile after mile of this devastation³ and so many little moments of it that just hit you.

　　答案：

　　1.with us now

　　2.storied history

　　3.get your mind around

　　4.most of us have

　　5.just see

1 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

2 contemplate   

vt.盘算，计议；周密考虑；注视，凝视

参考例句：

• The possibility of war is too horrifying to contemplate.战争的可能性太可怕了，真不堪细想。
• The consequences would be too ghastly to contemplate.后果不堪设想。

3 devastation   

n.毁坏；荒废；极度震惊或悲伤

参考例句：

• The bomb caused widespread devastation. 炸弹造成大面积破坏。
• There was devastation on every side. 到处都是破坏的创伤。 来自《简明英汉词典》