NPR边听边练14:房价天高,房租看涨

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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，欢迎指出错误^^）

　　We are in a transition market place, so right now even though the housing market are cooling prices are not__1__ at all in most of the nation’s housing markets. So the rents now are getting stark¹. The renter now is being__2__ greater demand for rentals², because people are__3__ properties to own. Eventually as this market complete the transition, if in some of these hot mortgage prices begin to soften³,,

　　__4__begins to improve and renters hopefully can get back into the buying market place and buy.

　　答案：

　　1.chief economist⁴ with the National Association of Realtors

　　2.dropping significantly; faced with; postponing purchasing; affordability

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