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(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，歡迎指出錯誤^^）

Lesson54 Helen Keller

Helen Keller was born in Alabama in 1 . When she was twenty months old, she got an illness. After her illness Helen became deaf and blind. Her parents did not know what to do.
When Helen was seven years old, her parents got her a special teacher. Her name was Miss Anne Sullivan. Miss Sullivan worked with Helen all day. She took Helen's hand and spelled a word in her hand. Helen soon learned to say what she wanted 2 .
In 1900 Helen entered Radcliffe College. Miss Sullivan sat next to Helen in class. She spelled all the words into Helen's hand. Miss Sullivan also read to Helen all the time. At that time there were only a few books for the blind. These were Braille books. They had a special alphabet made with dots that blind people could read with their 3 . Helen graduated from Radcliffe with honours.
Helen wrote several books. The most famous ones are The Story of My Life and Midstream: My Later Life. She also wrote magazine articles and spoke all over the country. 4 . Miss Sullivan repeated what Helen said. Helen spoke about the deaf and blind. People everywhere became interested. Helen became a symbol of new hope for the 5 .

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