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^^）

　　We called Jeff Collar, a consultant to the newspaper industry. He says ___(1)___ declining circulation is by design. ___(2)___ readers, some companies are now putting quality over quantity.

　　"For years, the objective of the industry was expansion and to deliver the highest circulation number possible. Some newspapers sold ___(3)___ to entitle new subscribers. But when you factor in the high cost of discounting, that's a lesser unit of circulation. So some of these losses are filling in the hurt, ___(4)___."

　　But still a lot of newspapers are infected, ___(5)___ and they certainly don't want to. And where are they going? The Internet, I gather, is doing rather well.

　　答案：

　　1.some of the

　　2.When it comes to

　　3.a lot of subscriptions

　　4.if you will

　　5.losing readers