【NPR邊聽邊練】致力于提供新鮮有趣、饒有意味的時訊資料，致力于通過精聽的方式促進聽力提高，致力于不斷開闊眼界和深入了解美國觀點。

精聽建議：
先完整地把一條新聞聽一到三遍，爭取掌握大意。然后，一句一句精聽，力爭每句話都聽明白。遇到實在不懂的地方，再聽寫。

下面的文本材料中空缺部分里面要填的詞都很簡單，不過是一些值得注意的連讀或者典型的美式發音哦，有些語速比較快。試試看，你能不能全部寫對？

（參考文本，歡迎指出錯誤^^）
The devastation of hurricane Katrina ___(1)___ some gulf coast residents from marking Halloween last night. New Orleans had always been the perfect backdrop, the home of costumes, graveyards and voodoo. NPR's Loop Banberk ___(2)___ this yearThere was no real point this year in ___(3)___ fake spider webs or cupboard cutouts of witches. Because even two months after Katrina, New Orleans is an eerie, eerie place all on its own. Piles of muddy debris are everywhere. ___(4)___ lie in the streets like above ground tombs and the wind whistles to the broken panes of glass. And yet every ___(5)___ you head a street like Pipe Drive, which actually seems pretty normal and comes complete with trick-or-treaters.