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,欢迎指正^^)
Lesson46 A Nicer Father
Charlie Yates was seventeen years old, and although he had left school, he preferred living in his parents' house. He wanted to find a job, but he never seemed to get one. His father wanted him to 1 , but his mother wanted him to stay.
Charlie did not wash his hair very often, he shaved 2 , and he could not stand wearing shoes, so his feet were always dirty.
Mr. Yates sometimes saw his son at weekends, and then he was always angry with him. He used to say to him: "Why don't you shave everyday? Who would give you a job with your dirty hair?" and so on. "But Father,'" Charlie always said, "I don't 3 those things."
One Saturday morning, while Charlie and his father were having their usual argument his father said to him, "You should be ashamed to live like that. I was 4 quite differently.
When I was seventeen, I was forbidden to stay out till three o'clock in the morning, and walk about the house with dirty feet, and grow a beard, and wear gold chains and behave like a ..."
He went on and on until Charlie said kindly, "Poor Father. My grandfather died before I was born, so I never met him, but he must have been a terrible old gentleman."
"Not at all!" Mr. Yates objected 5 . "I had a much nicer father than you'll ever have!"
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