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^^）

Lesson68 Who's the Offender?

Three young men were playing with a gun in a street in a quiet area of the town after 1 when one of them fired it by mistake without aiming it at anything． The bullet broke a window in an old lady's house．
The young men made off 2 when they saw the damage they had done， but the old lady looked out of a window when she heard the explosion and she recognized one of them as the son of a man and woman who lived not far from her．
The old lady complained to the police， and a detective went to the young man's house and found the gun， so he took the young man and his friends to the 3 ．
There his chief officer questioned the young men to find out which of them owned the gun， but none of them was willing to admit because they did not have a license for owning a gun．
At last the chief officer decided to put an end to the conversation． He turned to the detective and demanded to know whether he had got an officer's 4 to take the gun away from the young man who owned it． “No， sir，” he answered nervously， “I didn't get it．”
“In that case，” the officer declared angrily， “you were quite wrong to take it away from him． You'd better return it immediately or there'll be trouble!”This made the young men smile happily at each other， and as soon as the detective held the gun out and said “Here you are，” one of them put his hand out 5 get it back．That is how the officer finally discovered whom the gun belonged to．

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