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^^）

TARP is 'partial success'

Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan says the Troubled Asset Relief Program has helped banks, but more money is still needed.• Did Greenspan miss the ball?

The U.S. Treasury's Troubled Asset Relief Program has been partially successful in recapitalizing banks. ___(1)___, the TARP still has work to do because investors--both depositors and holders of bank debt, ___(2)___ now seek a significantly larger ___(3)___ in banks than they did prior to the current crisis. Assuaging investor concerns apparently will require not only capital infusion to replenish an estimated hundreds of billions of dollars of unrecorded losses, but an additional ___(4)___ that would add a needed several percentage points to the capital asset ratio. Moreover, until risk-taking investors freely fund banks, loan officers will remain ___(5)___ of granting new loans. To stabilize the American Banking System and restore a normal lending, additional TARP funds will be required.

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