【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^^）

The president is not the only politician you might be thinking about today. NPR's Robert Krulwich has been looking backward as well as forward and the word is: Beware.

I know it may ___1___ your mind, so let me just mention that today is the 2050th anniversary of the death of Julius Caesar. Yep, this is the day, March 15--the Ides of March--44 B.C. He came to the ___2___. He got stabbed repeatedly. He cried out "Et tu, Brute?" That's the Shakespearean version. He ___3___ his final breath "Hoo...", and he died.

Now to honour this event in a very personal way, first I want you meet Prof. Dan Nocera. "I teach chemistry at MIT. Um...I'm a professor of chemistry." And in your classes, do you mention Caesar and his last breath? "Yes, sometimes that's true. He is mentioned." And it's not ___4___. It seems that Caesar's last breath is mentioned in chemistry classes all over the place. "That's right. Caesar's last breath really ___5___."

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