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^^）

Lesson34 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president of the United States. He was born in Kentucky in 1809. His family was very ___(1)___. When Lincoln was a boy, he worked on his family's farm. He did not go to school. He taught himself to read and write. Later, Lincoln studied law and became a lawyer. After that, he became a ___(2)___.
Everybody liked Abraham Lincoln because he was intelligent and hardworking. Lincoln was very ambitious. He wanted to ___(3)___everything he did. He said that he wanted to win the “race of life.” He was also kind and honest. People called him “Honest Abe.”
Lincoln became president in 1860. In 1861, there was a war between the North and the South of the United States. The North wanted the United States to stay ___(4)___ as one country. Lincoln was the leader of the North. In the war, brother killed brother. The Civil War was ___(5)___long.
The North won the Civil War. The war ended on April 9, 1865. Six days later, President Lincoln and his wife went to the theater. Inside the theater, a man went behind the president and shot him in the head. Lincoln died the next morning.