【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^^）
He says one problem is corruption in China’s government. Major western corporations can often___(1)___that. But smaller firms may not. “Local officials have their___(2)___frequently. There is a licencing process for many kinds of businesses that local government officials control. Local government officials invest frequently in local businesses. So a foreign firm might be in competition with a firm that has at least a partial owner-a government official that would be ___(3)___to influence or harm the foreign company’s business prospects. In one of our reports this week we met a Chinese woman who is basically an American middle class worker making about 60,000 dollars per year. But it was ___(4)___that the average person in China is making a tiny fraction of that, may be a couple of thousands dollars a year. What is income inequality going to do to China’s future economic growth? Well, income inequality’s increased dramatically, particularly over the last decade. And really all dimensions of inequality have gone up. The gap between farmers and rural residents has gone up, between the people that are fortunate enough to live on the coast and those who live in the ___(5)___. And particularly the gap between the skilled and unskilled has gone up.