【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^^）
The night has just begun. Anna V, her husband David, ___(1)___daughter Clausier have just ____(2)___another mother with her infant . "Now is when people start going out in Spain." Anna says,"We are going to have a beer now and then dinner."Like most Spaniards Anna and David see no problem with ___(3)___even on weekdays. In fact they don't have much choice. Most spanish restaurants ___(4)___before 9 pm. Such a life style was easier to handle when people slept the siesta. But these days few workers ___(5)___to their homes for a snooze,even though shops and offices still closed in the afternoons.So there are increasing calls to aborlish the siesta. One of the worst affected groups is working women.