NPR边听边练34:诗歌能给我们带来什么

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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^^）

　　I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos¹, spiritual confusions and traumatic events that come with being alive. When I was 12 years old, I was responsible for the death of my younger brother in a __1__accident. I __2__ that killed him. In a single moment, my world changed forever. I felt grief, terror, shame and despair more deeply than I __3__imagined. In the aftermath, no one in my shattered family could speak to me about my brother's death, and __4___ left me alone with all my agonizing² emotions. And under those emotions, something even more terrible: a knowledge that all the easy meanings I had lived by until then had been suddenly and utterly³ abolished.One consequence of traumatic violence is that it isolates⁴ its victims. It can cut us off from other people, it can also cut us off from their own emotional lives until...

　　参考答案：

　　1 hunting

　　2 held the rifle

　　3 could ever have

　　4 their silence

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