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^^）

Lesson37 Three Jokes

Joke 1
At my job as a dental receptionist, I answered the phone and noticed on the 1 that the incoming call was from an auto-repair shop. The man on the line begged to see the dentist because of a painful tooth.“Which side of your mouth hurts?” I asked the patient. He sighed and answered,“The passenger side.”

Joke 2
When I was twenty-eight, I was teaching English to freshmen in a high school where 2 the faculty and staff were allowed to 3 . One of those days I wore a sweatshirt and slacks. A student came in and his eyes widened.“Wow!” he exclaimed.“You should wear clothes like that every day. You look twenty, maybe even thirty years younger!”

Joke 3
Heavily laden with groceries, an old lady asked a young clerk at the grocery store to accompany her to her car. Arriving there, she unlocked and opened the doors and, without thinking, sat down in the back seat to 4 her list of errands. A moment later the perplexed clerk walked around the car to her.“Lady,” he said firmly.“I don't mind helping you load your groceries, but I really have to 5 driving you home.”

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