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(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？

（參考文本，歡迎指出錯(cuò)誤^^）

Lesson40 Depression

There's a difference, though, between the “depression” that most of us talk about when we talk about feeling sad, and 3 depression that's very serious and sometimes life —threatening. The depression that may threaten our life is also known as clinical depression. It is about feeling so sad and 4 that you sometimes can't imagine being happy.

It's about being miserable so much of the time that you don't feel like participating in life. People who are chronically depressed usually have physical problems like stomachaches, headaches, and lack of energy. As you 5 know, some people experience such deep depression that they believe suicide is the only way out of their pain.

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