【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 Super Bowl this weekend isn't just the most important advent in football. It's also a championship day for pizza delivery. Sunday is the biggest one-day revenue generator for the pizza business and no one knows this better than Domino's Pizza. Besides ___1___ on extra dose, some Domino's franchise owners are taking extra steps to get employees (to) mentally ___2___ for the big day, lots of deliveries on Sunday. Jeff Dufficy owns a Domino's franchise in Foxboro Massachusetts, and he joins us now.

"How are you?" "Hi, I'm very good. Thanks." "So, I understand you actually have pep rallies for your employees." "Yeah. It started the first time the Patriots, you know we are die-hard fans adhering (to) New England, and it started the first time the Patriots made ___3___. Back in '96, we were just so excited about the game, and (when) beated in the playoff, we came along all over the paths and started doing some jumping jacks and ___4___, this kind of stuff with football season ever since." "So ___5___ your employees go out into the parking lot and do jumping jacks?"

詞匯:

1.championship

n. 冠軍賽,冠軍

例句與用法:
She persevered in her efforts to win the championship.
她為贏得冠軍而不斷努力.
Which football team is the leader in the football championship?
現在哪個隊在足球錦標賽中領先？

2.stock up

vt. 儲存(儲備,囤積)

例句與用法:
People seldom stock up on Chinese cabbage now.
現在人們很少貯存大白菜了。
As soon as they heard about possible food shortages, they began to stock up.
他們一聽說食物可能短缺, 就立即儲備起來.

3.mentally

adv. 心理上,精神上,用腦筋

例句與用法:
Do you think in English or translate mentally from your own language?
你是用英語思考呢, 還是在頭腦中把自己的語言翻譯過來呢?

4.franchise

n. 特權, 公民權
v. 賦予特權, 賦予公民權

例句與用法:
He have buy a hot dog franchise.
他購買了一家熱狗特許經營店。
A franchise to sell specified items in a certain area.
商品經銷特許權在某一區域內出售某特定商品的特許權

5.push-ups

俯臥撐