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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^^）

The president is not the only politician you might be thinking about today. NPR's Robert Krulwich has been looking backward as well as forward and the word is: Beware.

I know it may ___1___ your mind, so let me just mention that today is the 2050th anniversary of the death of Julius Caesar. Yep, this is the day, March 15--the Ides of March--44 B.C. He came to the ___2___. He got stabbed repeatedly. He cried out "Et tu, Brute?" That's the Shakespearean version. He ___3___ his final breath "Hoo...", and he died.

Now to honour this event in a very personal way, first I want you meet Prof. Dan Nocera. "I teach chemistry at MIT. Um...I'm a professor of chemistry." And in your classes, do you mention Caesar and his last breath? "Yes, sometimes that's true. He is mentioned." And it's not ___4___. It seems that Caesar's last breath is mentioned in chemistry classes all over the place. "That's right. Caesar's last breath really ___5___."

来源:可可英语 http://www.kekenet.com/Article/200904/67624.shtml