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^^）

Lesson56 It's the Television!

Ted had not seen his old friend Sam since they were at school together. One day Ted saw Sam at a 1 in a big hotel.
"Hi, Sam!" Ted said happily."How are you?"
"I'm very well, thank you, Ted," Sam answered,"and how are you?"
" 2 , thank you," Ted said, they sat down side by side and began to talk.
Gradually their 3 turned to television.Ted said,“I think it's very bad for people. When I was a young man, we did things ourselves - we didn't just watch other people. In the evenings, we sang songs or played music or cards with each other or we read the newspaper or found ourselves something useful to do.”
Sam nodded.“Yes, that's true, and perhaps once a week or once a month we went into the town specially to see a film in the cinema, and maybe to buy ourselves an 4 ."
"And now,” Ted went on,“my children watch silly films on television almost every evening, and they don't do the work that their teachers give them. What will they do with themselves when they leave school?"
"Yes, it's very bad, isn't it?” Sam said.“But what can we do about it?"
"Well,” Ted answered,“I've promised myself one thing: I'm going to sell our television set - as soon as the football season finishes 5 this month.”

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