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^^）

Lesson45 Chocolate

We now think of chocolates as sweet, but once it was bitter. Today we think of it as a candy, but once it was a medicine. Chocolate is a product of a cocoa tree. Its beans taste bitter. Workers must first dry and then roast them 1 remove the bitter taste.
The word “chocolate” comes from a Mayan word. The Mayas were an 2 people who once lived in Mexico. They valued the cocoa tree. Some used the beans for money, while others crushed them to make a drink. When the Spaniards came to Mexico in the sixteenth century, they started drinking cacao too. Because the drink was strong and bitter, they thought it was medicine. No one had the idea of adding sugar. The Spaniards took some beans back to Europe and opened cafes.
Wealthy people drank cocoa and said it was good for the 3 .In the 1800s the owner of a chocolate factory in England discovered that sugar removed the bitter taste of cocoa. It quickly became a cheap and popular drink. Soon 4 , a factory made the first solid block of sweetened chocolate. 5 , another factory mixed milk and chocolate together.People like the taste of milk chocolate even better.

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