时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:NPR边听边练


英语课

   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。
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