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第394期：主餐一道：泛听练习
以下段落是摘自新闻里的一些重要信息,并不是一个段落的听写。空内信息可在本新闻中全部找到,大家可以根据这些信息复述新闻。
一、泛听建议：
1、完整听一遍，掌握大意。
2、继续听，特别注意关键信息。遇到相似的词，写下来。
79% of American teens enroll in college by the age of 20. By age 26,nearly 90% of teens _1_ a four years program. But NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports a new study examines why a fifth of national teens don't enroll in college after high school.
全美有79%的青年人在20岁时进入大学。有近90%的青年人在26岁完成了四年的学业。但是据NPR新闻的克劳迪奥·桑切斯报道，一项新研究揭示了全美五分之一的青年人在毕业后没有进入大学的原因。
The study commission by the National School Boards Association and the Center for Public Education _2_ this profile of a typical American teenager would not immediately go on the college. This student tended to be a male, poor. His parent may own a high school diploma but no more.He's likely to do _3_ in a rural community in the south, and though he thought to go to college, money was the biggest reason he didn't. In high school he took the easiest courses and still got poor grades. He did little on homework and did not do well on tests. And yet, as the study points out he eventually _4_ college even if it was 9 or 8 years after he graduated from high school. Claudio Sanchez, NPR News.
美国全国学校董事会协会公众教育中心的研究委员会提供的文件表明，典型的美国青年人不会在高中毕业后立即进入大学。这类学生往往是男性，而且很贫穷。他的父母可能拥有高中文凭，但是没有获得更高的学历。他可能在南部的农村社区谋生，虽然他想上大学，但是因为没有钱所以不能上大学。这类人在高中时选择了最简单的课程，但成绩依然很差。他几乎不怎么做作业，考试成绩也不好。但是研究指出，这类人在高中毕业八九年后最终还是进入了大学。NPR新闻，克劳迪奥·桑切斯报道。
Researchers who looking for 16 cases of wild weather around the world last year, including heat waves on Australia, _5_ more than half the cases on manmade climate change. The study was organized by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
研究人员研究了去年全世界发生的16起极端天气，其中就包括澳大利亚的热浪，研究人员认为约一半的极端天气是人为的气候变化。这项研究由美国国家海洋和大气管理局组织。
词汇解析：
1. tend to do sth.
往往会；经常就；
eg. I tend to get very uptight during a match.
比赛时我总会紧张得不行。
eg. Men tend to put on weight in middle age.
男人到了中年往往会发福。
2. point out
指出，说出（事实或错误）；
eg. It is important to point out that laws and trends are radically different things.
有必要指出，规律和趋势是根本不同的两回事。
eg. Not only did he point out my shortcomings, but he also helped me to overcome them.
他不但指出我的缺点，而且帮助我改正它们。
