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^^）

Lesson51 Best Medicine

Jim worked in the office of a big company. He lived alone in a small comfortable apartment with two rooms, 1 and a bathroom.

At first he cleaned his apartment himself, but he soon found that he was not able to 2 because he was often too busy. So he hired an old lady called Mrs. Roper to do the cleaning for him. Mrs. Roper accepted the employment with pleasure because she thought that was the right job for her.

After she had been working for Jim for two weeks, Jim looked at the 3 in his bedroom and found that mirror was covered by a thick layer of 4 . As a polite young man, he did not want to order Mrs. Roper around, so he wrote a message on the mirror with his finger "I'm coughing these days in this apartment because I have breathed in too much dust."

He came home late that evening. He went into his bedroom and looked at the mirror. "Mrs. Roper didn't seem to have cleaned the room." He said to himself. But then he 5 and saw a bottle in front of the mirror. "I didn't put that bottle there," he thought. "Mrs. Roper must have left it here. He picked the bottle up and looked at it carefully.
"She's written some message for me," he said to himself. It said, "This is the best medicine for your cough."