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，欢迎指正^^）

Lesson23 The Exercise Craze
Everybody's doing it, old and young, men and women. They're 1 , dancing, jumping up and down, bending and stretching.Exercise is in fashion. Everybody wants to be fit, feel good, look slim, and stay young.

It started with jogging. Millions of Americans put on their new colored sports shoes and 2 jogging suits and ran through the parks or along the streets for half an hour a day.

Then the joggers got the marathon craze. Popular marathons are now held everywhere. Lots of people want to see if they can run 42 kms and do it faster than everyone else. The big city marathons, in London and New York, are important 3 . Television cameras and newspapers report them in detail. Some remarkable people take part in the marathons: seventy-five-year-old grandfathers and nine-year-old grandchildren, and even invalids in wheelchairs.

Marathons are not for everyone, some 4 get fit at home. For them, there's a big choice of books, cassettes and video programs with music and instructions. Sometimes the action is more like dancing than exercises. That's why one big company calls it 'dancercise'.

Taking exercise is only one part of keeping fit. You've got to 5 too. Books and magazines about slimming are bestsellers these days. Some people eat nothing but fruit for two or three days a week. It sounds terrible. Why not forget about keeping fit, sit down, and have another chocolate biscuit?

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