【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^^）

Any snowfall which brings traffic to a ___1___ and closes schools takes me back to one particular storm in my youth on the ___2___ of Lake Erie. On that day, schools and stores were closed because of the weather. What ___3___ for me is a six-block walk I took with my father from our house to the post office. He bought me stamps for my recently started stamp collection. I early had a wild assortment of ___4___ stamps from around the world. He bought me brand new stamps. I can ___5___ in my mind, walking on snow-covered sidewalks in the streets. It was unusual to be going for a walk with my father on a weekday and so close to home. In the following years I never talked about that walk with him. I never even thought about it until it appeared to me about a decade ago. A winter memory now return to the forefront.

词汇:

1.resonate

v. 产生共鸣

2.stamps

印压
印记

例句与用法:
Will Tom continue to collect stamps or is it only a passing fad?
汤姆还在集邮呢, 还是热劲已过?
The Queen's head appears in profile on British stamps.
英国邮票上有女王的侧面头像.
It cost me 100 dollars to collect the stamps.
收集这些邮票花了我一百块钱。

3.assortment

n. 分类,配合,各色俱备之物

例句与用法:
The natural formation in offspring of genetic combinations not present in parents, by the processes of crossing over or independent assortment.
重组父母没有表现而其子嗣自然形成基因重组之现象，这是由于采用了杂交或独立分类的方法而出现的
The shop has a rich assortment of goods.
这个商店有各种各样的货品。
There are wide assortments of gifts to choose from.
那儿有各式各样的礼品可供选择。

4.forefront

n. 最前部,最前线

例句与用法:
Earlier a Presidential commission… probed the market's structure for defects and came up with a laundry list of weaknesses with program trading in the forefront.
前些时一个总统授命成立的委员会探究［股票］市场的结构，以便找出缺点。结果毛病一箩筐，其中以程式交易为最显著的缺点。
The brave soldier was in the forefront of the fighting.
那个勇敢的士兵战斗在最前线。