NPR边听边练30:世界上最爱你的人

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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 motel¹ 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.Barb² starched³ my drill⁴ team skirts same as Su's. She made sure I had lunch money, doctors' appointments, help with homework, Jordache jeans, puka shell⁵ necklaces and nightly hugs. Barbara and Roland attended every football game where Su and I marched, every drama⁶ 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___ rival⁷ colleges, they kept my room the same for the entire four years I attended school.

　　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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