精聽建議:
先完整地把一條新聞聽一到三遍,爭(zhēng)取掌握大意。然后,一句一句精聽,力爭(zhēng)每句話都聽明白。遇到實(shí)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(jiǎn)單,不過是一些值得注意的連讀或者典型的美式發(fā)音哦,有些語速比較快。試試看,你能不能全部寫對(duì)?
(參考文本,歡迎指出錯(cuò)誤^^)
Lesson34 Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president of the United States. He was born in Kentucky in 1809. His family was very ___(1)___. When Lincoln was a boy, he worked on his family's farm. He did not go to school. He taught himself to read and write. Later, Lincoln studied law and became a lawyer. After that, he became a ___(2)___.
Everybody liked Abraham Lincoln because he was intelligent and hardworking. Lincoln was very ambitious. He wanted to ___(3)___everything he did. He said that he wanted to win the “race of life.” He was also kind and honest. People called him “Honest Abe.”
Lincoln became president in 1860. In 1861, there was a war between the North and the South of the United States. The North wanted the United States to stay ___(4)___ as one country. Lincoln was the leader of the North. In the war, brother killed brother. The Civil War was ___(5)___long.
The North won the Civil War. The war ended on April 9, 1865. Six days later, President Lincoln and his wife went to the theater. Inside the theater, a man went behind the president and shot him in the head. Lincoln died the next morning.
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答案:
1. poor
2. politician
3. be good at
4. together
5. four years
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