NPR边听边练44:洪水VS赌场
时间:2019-01-22 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^^)
By Mississippi law, the casinos had been on water which means they were ___(1)___ boats attached to big hotels. But being on water also may have ___(2)___ especially vulnerable to big storms, as Katrina vividly 1 illustrated 2."The casinos are devastated 3. You know, the damages… are just unbelievable devastation 4."William M. is president of a large commercial construction company that helped build some of the casinos. His office was virtually destroyed by the storms, but by this weekend ____(3)___ were back at work using a generator 5 for power in a building literally 6 without walls. Only now, instead of building casinos, they've got contracts for ____(4)___ some of the ___(5)___ that line Biloxi streets.
参考答案:
1.built on
2.made them
3.he and his staff
4.clean up
5.mountains of debris
adv.清楚地,鲜明地,生动地
- The speaker pictured the suffering of the poor vividly.演讲者很生动地描述了穷人的生活。
- The characters in the book are vividly presented.这本书里的人物写得栩栩如生。
v.彻底破坏( devastate的过去式和过去分词);摧毁;毁灭;在感情上(精神上、财务上等)压垮adj.毁坏的;极为震惊的
- The bomb devastated much of the old part of the city. 这颗炸弹炸毁了旧城的一大片地方。
- His family is absolutely devastated. 他的一家感到极为震惊。
n.毁坏;荒废;极度震惊或悲伤
- The bomb caused widespread devastation. 炸弹造成大面积破坏。
- There was devastation on every side. 到处都是破坏的创伤。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.发电机,发生器
- All the while the giant generator poured out its power.巨大的发电机一刻不停地发出电力。
- This is an alternating current generator.这是一台交流发电机。