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^^）

Lesson31 Being Brave

It was five o'clock in the afternoon. Barney had just had his hair cut at the barber shop when Fred came running up to him. Fred was ___(1)___ and looked worried. He had spent the whole day looking for Marty and he thought Barney could help him find the boy. Marty's mother had tried to make him go to the dentist's to have his teeth checked. But Marty was ___(2)___ and didn't want to go. Now he had disappeared and Fred thought Marty had ___(3)___ from home.
Barney told Fred that he was going to Nick's garage to have his car fixed. Lots of kids from the neighbourhood went there because they liked to ___(4)___in the old, useless cars. It was possible that one of them had seen Marty or knew where he was. Barney offered to give Fred a ride to the garage in his taxi.
When the two men arrived at Nick's they found Marty playing with some other boys. Fred convinced Marty that he had to be brave and go to the dentist's like a man. Marty finally agreed, but only if Fred would go there with him to give him courage. Fred smiled and ___(5)___ Marty. They got in Barney's taxi and went to the dentist's together.

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