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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^^)
I believe that families are not only blood relatives, but sometimes just people that___1___ and love you when no one else will.In May 1977, I ___2___Howard Johnson's motel off of Interstate 10 in Houston. My dad and I shared a room with two double beds and a bathroom way too small for a modest 15-year-old girl and her father. Dad's second marriage was in trouble and my stepmother ___3___ the house the previous week. Dad had no idea what to do with me. And that's when my other family showed up. Barbara and Roland Beach ___4___ their home because their only daughter, Su, my best friend, asked them to. I lived with them for the next seven years.Barb starched my drill team skirts same as Su's. She made sure I had lunch money, doctors' appointments, help with homework, Jordache jeans, puka shell necklaces and nightly hugs. Barbara and Roland attended every football game where Su and I marched, every drama performance I was in even when I had no speaking lines. As far as I could tell, for the Beaches, there was no difference between Su and me: I was their daughter, too.When Su and I ___5___ rival colleges, they kept my room the same for the entire four years I attended school.
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参考答案:
1.show up
2.lived in a
3.had kicked us both out of
4.took me into
5.left for
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