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^^）

Lesson40 Depression

There's a difference, though, between the “depression” that most of us talk about when we talk about feeling sad, and 3 depression that's very serious and sometimes life —threatening. The depression that may threaten our life is also known as clinical depression. It is about feeling so sad and 4 that you sometimes can't imagine being happy.

It's about being miserable so much of the time that you don't feel like participating in life. People who are chronically depressed usually have physical problems like stomachaches, headaches, and lack of energy. As you 5 know, some people experience such deep depression that they believe suicide is the only way out of their pain.

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