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^^)
Lesson28 Three Jokes
Joke 1
I sold an item through eBay but it got lost in the mail, so I stopped by my local post office and asked them to track it down.“It's not that simple,” the clerk replied.“You have to ___(1)___ a mail-loss form before we can initiate a search.” "Okay,” I said.“I'll take one.” He searched his counter, and then went to ask some other clerks, who did the same - only to return and confess,“You'll have to ___(2)___ later. We can't find the forms.”
Joke 2
A couple of hours into a visit with my mother she noticed I hadn't ___(3)___a cigarette once.“Are you trying to ___(4)___ ?” “No,” I replied,“I've got a cold and I don't smoke when I'm not feeling well.” “You know," she observed,"you'd probably live longer if you were sick more often."
Joke 3
Kids have a greater need for speed than classroom computers can deliver.Impatient to turn in his term paper, one restless student kept clicking the "Print” command. The printer started to ___(5)___copy after copy of the kid's ten-page report. The topic? “Save Our Trees.”
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