【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^^）

___1___ this feeling: You notice some everyday phenomenon -- something that always happens -- and search for the word that defines it. Only to realize -- no such word exists. While word maven Barbara Wallraff rustles up what she calls these "word fugitives" in her column in the The Atlantic Monthly. Her readers supply their ideas for word fugitives and the words thought.

For example, "My husband and I are in search of a word for the fear of throwing a party and having no one ___2___." "Oh, fatalism. Here's another. When I stand __3___, I always think the line next to me is moving faster. What's the word that describes my think?" "How about misalignment? What's the word that describes the process of going through the dirty clothes ___4___ to find something clean enough to wear?" "Dry leaning. What about a word for people who send e-mails, and then follow up saying: 'Did you get my e-mail message?'" That would be redundances. All ___5___ examples are in Barbara Wallraff's book Word Fugitives: In Pursuit of Wanted Words.

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