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^^）

Lesson46 A Family Sees America Together

The Graham family did something very 1 last year. Mr. and Mrs. Graham did not go to work, and their children did not go to school.

Instead, the family travelled together in a van and drove across America for a whole year.First, they sold their family businesses in real estate and a small newspaper. Then they sold their large house. 2 , the children said good-bye to classmates. And their dream trip started on July 4th,Independence Day.They visited big cities and small towns in all 50 states.

They also visited the 3 of all the United States' Presidents.They visited many interesting places, parks, and zoos, and also interviewed people on their way. Many people were very 4 . Some invited the family to stay in their home with them. Almost all the people they met signed their “guest book.”

Each day, the mother and the daughter wrote stories of their trips for newspapers or their internet homepage. Schoolchildren from all over the United States followed the Graham family's trip by using computers at home and in school. Some children wrote letters to the Graham family.After the trip the family wrote a book about their travels to describe everything they 5 their country and its people.

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