【NPR邊聽邊練】致力于提供新鮮有趣、饒有意味的時訊資料，致力于通過精聽的方式促進(jìn)聽力提高，致力于不斷開闊眼界和深入了解美國觀點。

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^^）

When I think about how my mother fed all seven of us, making us think that every day was a "different meal," I still appreciate how much a creative cook ___1___ a single potato.And it wasn't just in the kitchen. She would flip her old Singer sewing machine upright, study ___2___books and magazines, then make ethnic versions of those same dolls and stuffed animals to ___3___ church fundraisers. Without a TV in the house to distract us, we made the dolls come to life, ___4___ the hollow fabric sleeves one fistful of cotton at a time.
My mother made her own clothes and all my sisters' prom and wedding dresses. I always knew when she was making something, because she ___5___ or humming. She sang all the way through her home correspondence courses in floral design and interior decorating. She made being creative as normal as breathing and encouraged our participation by telling us that "idle hands and minds were the devil's workshop."

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