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^^）

Lesson43 Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt was the twenty-sixth president of the United States. He was president 1 . He was also a boxer, a soldier, a rancher, and an explorer.This energetic man was not strong when he was a boy. He 2 asthma, a problem with breathing. His father wanted him to be strong. Roosevelt learned to box and did many other sports. Soon Roosevelt became strong and energetic.
After he became president, Roosevelt kept his body strong. He even boxed in the White House. One day, another boxer hit him in the eye.After that accident, Roosevelt became 3 in one eye.
Theodore Roosevelt had a 4 called “Teddy.” When he was president,he often went hunting.One day he went hunting with some friends and saw a small bear. He did not shoot the bear. He said the bear was too small and must go free. The next day the story of the little bear was in the newspapers. The newspapers named the little bear “Teddy” after the president.
Soon people called toy bears for children “teddy bears.”When he left the White House, Teddy Roosevelt went to hunt in Africa. He then went to South America to 5 places that nobody knew about.Americans loved his energy.

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