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^^）

Lesson24 A Swimming Test
1 , there was a boy named Stephen. Stephen had read a lot of books about ships and their voyages and he was fascinated by them. When he was sixteen, he decided that he wanted to become a navy officer, so he went to navy school.
One day the teachers 2 the students that they are going to have swimming and diving lessons. Stephen arrived at the pool the next morning with the other students. He was 3 learning to swim.
The teacher commanded those who could not swim to go into one group, those who could swim but not dive properly to go into a second group, and those who could both swim and dive well to go into a third one. Stephen went into the second group.
The teacher then told the students in the second group to go down into the swimming pool and swim to the other end. Stephen 4 the steps, but as soon as he began to swim, he sank. When he did not come up again, the alarmed teacher jumped in and dragged him out of the water. Then the teacher said to Stephen, 'Why ever didn't you join the group that can't swim?'
'Because I'd never even bathed 5 before,' Stephen answered, 'so I didn't know whether I could swim or not.'

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