NPR边听边练16:家庭,从浪漫开始

 　　【NPR边听边练】致力于提供新鲜有趣、饶有意味的时讯资料，致力于通过精听的方式促进听力提高，致力于不断开阔眼界和深入了解美国观点。

　　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，欢迎指出错误^^）

　　He was in an uniform and I __1__him. After the dance we were smooching. When I got home and I didn’t hear from him. It was miserable¹, moping around, which is terrible. And then he__2__. “Well, I want bananas.” He said, “Coming and meet me at the New York Hotel.” It’s a miracle² that I needed a train. I could have__3__. Oh, I was in love. I was thinking about this the other day the moment when we first get married. I said, “ I want to have a lot of children because I want you to__4__.” And I thought, we could make the world a better place for living. Anyway we got up to forward and then we stopped. It was just a romantic³ loving relationship. And it was a love affair __5__ until the day he died. And I’ll never never get over him.

　　答案：

　　1.fell for

　　2.called up

　　3.have flown there

　　4.populate the Earth

　　5.went along

1 miserable   

adj.悲惨的，痛苦的；可怜的，糟糕的

参考例句：

• It was miserable of you to make fun of him.你取笑他，这是可耻的。
• Her past life was miserable.她过去的生活很苦。

2 miracle   

n.奇迹，令人惊奇的人或事

参考例句：

• The doctors said that his recovery was a miracle. 医生们说他的复原是件奇事。
• It is simply a miracle that rice should grow in such a place.稻子竟能在这样的地方生长，这实在是个奇迹。

3 romantic   

adj.浪漫的，风流的，传奇性的，夸大的，想象的，浪漫派的

参考例句：

• She thinks it will be romantic to be an actress.她认为当个女演员会很浪漫。
• Her husband is very romantic.她丈夫非常浪漫。