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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，欢迎指正^^）
Lesson42 An Affable Man
J.S. Minion was a maintenance foreman in the Public Works department of Excelsior City. He was a 1 of the senior officials at City Hall. They all praised his unfailing affability.
"I like Minion,"said the Superintendent of Works. "He has good judgment and is always 2 ."
This behavior was appropriate for Minion's position: he was not supposed to make policy, so he had no need to 3 his superiors.
The Superintendent of Works 4 and Minion succeeded him. Minion continued to agree with everyone. He passed on to his foreman every suggestion that came from above. The resulting conflicts in policy, and the continual changing of plans, soon demoralized the department. Complaints poured in from the Mayor and other officials, from taxpayers and from the maintenance workers"union. The Maintenance Department regularly exceeds its budget, yet fails to fulfill its program of work.Minion still says "Yes" to everyone, and carries messages briskly 5 between his superiors and his subordinates.
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