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^^）

Lesson56 It's the Television!

Ted had not seen his old friend Sam since they were at school together. One day Ted saw Sam at a 1 in a big hotel.
"Hi, Sam!" Ted said happily."How are you?"
"I'm very well, thank you, Ted," Sam answered,"and how are you?"
" 2 , thank you," Ted said, they sat down side by side and began to talk.
Gradually their 3 turned to television.Ted said,“I think it's very bad for people. When I was a young man, we did things ourselves - we didn't just watch other people. In the evenings, we sang songs or played music or cards with each other or we read the newspaper or found ourselves something useful to do.”
Sam nodded.“Yes, that's true, and perhaps once a week or once a month we went into the town specially to see a film in the cinema, and maybe to buy ourselves an 4 ."
"And now,” Ted went on,“my children watch silly films on television almost every evening, and they don't do the work that their teachers give them. What will they do with themselves when they leave school?"
"Yes, it's very bad, isn't it?” Sam said.“But what can we do about it?"
"Well,” Ted answered,“I've promised myself one thing: I'm going to sell our television set - as soon as the football season finishes 5 this month.”

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