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^^）

Lesson45 Chocolate

We now think of chocolates as sweet, but once it was bitter. Today we think of it as a candy, but once it was a medicine. Chocolate is a product of a cocoa tree. Its beans taste bitter. Workers must first dry and then roast them 1 remove the bitter taste.
The word “chocolate” comes from a Mayan word. The Mayas were an 2 people who once lived in Mexico. They valued the cocoa tree. Some used the beans for money, while others crushed them to make a drink. When the Spaniards came to Mexico in the sixteenth century, they started drinking cacao too. Because the drink was strong and bitter, they thought it was medicine. No one had the idea of adding sugar. The Spaniards took some beans back to Europe and opened cafes.
Wealthy people drank cocoa and said it was good for the 3 .In the 1800s the owner of a chocolate factory in England discovered that sugar removed the bitter taste of cocoa. It quickly became a cheap and popular drink. Soon 4 , a factory made the first solid block of sweetened chocolate. 5 , another factory mixed milk and chocolate together.People like the taste of milk chocolate even better.

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