【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^^)
We called Jeff Collar, a consultant to the newspaper industry. He says ___(1)___ declining circulation is by design. ___(2)___ readers, some companies are now putting quality over quantity.
"For years, the objective of the industry was expansion and to deliver the highest circulation number possible. Some newspapers sold ___(3)___ to entitle new subscribers. But when you factor in the high cost of discounting, that's a lesser unit of circulation. So some of these losses are filling in the hurt, ___(4)___."
But still a lot of newspapers are infected, ___(5)___ and they certainly don't want to. And where are they going? The Internet, I gather, is doing rather well.
答案:
1.some of the
2.When it comes to
3.a lot of subscriptions
4.if you will
5.losing readers
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