【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^^）
This morning we are going to talk to Cokie about the situation of her hometown New Orleans. Cokie has just returned from her first visit to New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina. She's ___(1)___ . "Cokie, welcome." "Thanks, Steve." " You spoke to us on the morning the Hurricane hit, Monday Aug. 29 , and you said this about your home city :' it is a city that has withstood so many things over its ___(2)___ and the idea that the leeves could break is really something that is almost impossible to contemplate." Now we had a couple of months to contemplate this and it's still hard to ___(3)___ ." Well, 'Cos you've been there, Steve. I had not and you have that experience, any of those who's covered disasters which ___(4)___. Where you usually see a terrible area and then you see normalcy. There is nothing normal. You ___(5)___ mile after mile of this devastation and so many little moments of it that just hit you.