NPR边听边练303:美医保网站投入运行
时间：2018-12-26 作者：英语课 分类：NPR边听边练
NPR边听边练303:美医保网站投入运行
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以下段落是摘自新闻里的一些重要信息,并不是一个段落的听写。空内信息可在本新闻中全部找到,大家可以根据这些信息复述新闻。
一、泛听建议：
1、完整听一遍，掌握大意。
2、继续听，特别注意关键信息。遇到相似的词，写下来。
The federal government's new health insurance website _1_ twice its usual weekday traffic as Americans try to beat the deadline to sign up for coverage 1 begins January 1st. NPR's Scott Horsley reports some would-be users _2_ into an online waiting area.
联邦政府新开设的政府医保网站的访问数量是平常的两倍，因为美国民众试图赶在最终期限前登记购买将于1月1日起生效的保险。据NPR新闻的斯科特·霍斯利报道，一些潜在用户被迫在线等候。
The Obama administration says some 375,000 people have logged onto the website by noon Monday, testing the limits of the site's new and improved capacity. As response time _3_, and error rates rose, some users were forced to wait or _4_ to supply emails so that they could come back later. White House Spokesman Jay Carney says that was by designed.
奥巴马政府表示，截至周一中午共有37.5万人上网浏览，检测网站刚刚改善的容量限制。由于反应时间减慢、错误率上升，一些用户被迫等待并提供他们的邮箱地址，以便之后继续访问网站。白宫发言人杰伊·卡尼表示，这些都在计划中。
"We absolutely anticipated that on this day in particular, we would see a surge."
“我们完全预计到了今天的特殊情况，我们知道访问量会激增。”
The website fell short of its target of accommodating 50,000 simultaneous users, but officials say it should still meet the goal of _5_ 800,000 users per day. Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.
网站未能达成同时为5万人提供服务的目标，但是官员表示，网站会完成每天登记80万名用户的目标。NPR新闻，斯科特·霍斯利华盛顿报道。
词汇解析：
1、log onto
登录，进入
eg:Some risk management software will track habits, such as detecting when people log onto which workstations or when they log in on a holiday.
有些风险控制软件可以跟踪习惯，比如监测人们何时登录进哪一台工作站，还有他们何时在假期登录进系统。
2、simultaneous
adj. 同时的；联立的；同时发生的
n. 同时译员
eg:The two guns fired almost simultaneously 2.
两支枪几乎同时开火。
参考答案：
1、is seeing 2、have been pushed
3、slowed 4、asked 5、handling
1 coverage
n.报导，保险范围，保险额，范围，覆盖
- There's little coverage of foreign news in the newspaper.报纸上几乎没有国外新闻报道。
- This is an insurance policy with extensive coverage.这是一项承保范围广泛的保险。
2 simultaneously
adv.同时发生地，同时进行地
- The radar beam can track a number of targets almost simultaneously.雷达波几乎可以同时追着多个目标。
- The Windows allow a computer user to execute multiple programs simultaneously.Windows允许计算机用户同时运行多个程序。