【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^^）

It’s been what almost three weeks now? Almost two weeks and about four hours now. Sorry, two weeks and four hours, ok. What kind of reaction are you ___1___; does anyone ___2___ you shouldn’t be doing this to the poor goldfish? You know there are some comments on this website, ditto. You know what I’m doing is sort of cruel and inhumane; I think that’s probably fair to accuse me of…. That’s said these goldfish were purchased from a pet store that usually sell them to folks who are gonna ___3___. You named one of the goldfish after the mayor and another one after the city councilman who’s kind of in charge of rivers,___4___ rivers. That’s right, but they both don’t seem to mind, which is a good thing. Because that night before the story initially ran, I kind of tip one last look at the, my computer screen, they basically said I'm gonna ___5___ tomorrow.

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