NPR边听边练06:日子要怎么过
时间：2018-12-03 作者：英语课 分类：NPR边听边练
英语课
【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^^）
This winter will bring with it some sticker shock. Economists 1 say heating your home could cost almost 50% more than ____(1)___. A lot of that extra cost is due to hurricanes Katrina and Rita which wrecked 2 many oil and gas rigs and pipelines 3 in the Gulf 4 of Mexico. The cost of consumer goods from shampoo to auto 5 tires ____(2)____. Even the air could get dirtier. NPR's Christopher Joyce has more on the ongoing 6 hurricane effect. This winter may be rough for Dorothy Tucker in Mannford Massachusetts. She is an 83-year-old retired 7 heath worker on the fixed 8 income. The hurricanes ___(3)___ her already high fuel prices even higher. Tucker ___(4)___ to an energy sub-committee in Congress, where democrat 9 Edward Mackey in Massachusetts asked she how she managed. " Where do you get the extra money for what could wide up? ___(5)___ an extra eight hundred or a thousand dollars?" "Nobody knows when I don't eat. And a lot of people that have my income, we are proud we don't tell".
答案：
1.it did last year
2.could also go up
3.will make
4.was invited to tell her story
5.It sounds like to me
1 economists
n.经济学家，经济专家( economist的名词复数 )
- The sudden rise in share prices has confounded economists. 股价的突然上涨使经济学家大惑不解。
- Foreign bankers and economists cautiously welcomed the minister's initiative. 外国银行家和经济学家对部长的倡议反应谨慎。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 pipelines
管道( pipeline的名词复数 )； 输油管道； 在考虑（或规划、准备） 中； 在酿中
- The oil is carried to the oil refinery by pipelines. 石油通过输油管输送到炼油厂。
- The oil carried in pipelines. 石油用管道输送。
4 gulf
n.海湾；深渊，鸿沟；分歧，隔阂
- The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
- There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
5 auto
n.(=automobile)(口语)汽车
- Don't park your auto here.别把你的汽车停在这儿。
- The auto industry has brought many people to Detroit.汽车工业把许多人吸引到了底特律。
6 ongoing
adj.进行中的，前进的
- The problem is ongoing.这个问题尚未解决。
- The issues raised in the report relate directly to Age Concern's ongoing work in this area.报告中提出的问题与“关心老人”组织在这方面正在做的工作有直接的关系。
7 retired
adj.隐退的，退休的，退役的
- The old man retired to the country for rest.这位老人下乡休息去了。
- Many retired people take up gardening as a hobby.许多退休的人都以从事园艺为嗜好。