【NPR边听边练】致力于提供新鲜有趣、饶有意味的时讯资料，致力于通过精听的方式促进听力提高，致力于不断开阔眼界和深入了解美国观点。

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^^）

It’s been what almost three weeks now? Almost two weeks and about four hours now. Sorry, two weeks and four hours, ok. What kind of reaction are you ___1___; does anyone ___2___ you shouldn’t be doing this to the poor goldfish? You know there are some comments on this website, ditto. You know what I’m doing is sort of cruel and inhumane; I think that’s probably fair to accuse me of…. That’s said these goldfish were purchased from a pet store that usually sell them to folks who are gonna ___3___. You named one of the goldfish after the mayor and another one after the city councilman who’s kind of in charge of rivers,___4___ rivers. That’s right, but they both don’t seem to mind, which is a good thing. Because that night before the story initially ran, I kind of tip one last look at the, my computer screen, they basically said I'm gonna ___5___ tomorrow.

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