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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^^）

Government lawyers are defending the Child Online Protection Act, or COPA, against the challenge from the American Civil Liberties Union. COPA requires the owners of sexually-oriented commercial websites to keep minors out. The ACLU says the law ___1___ free speech protections. In order to defend COPA, federal prosecutors need ___2___ help them look at current filtering systems, says Tom Lee, a former Justice Department lawyer who worked on the case. "And it valuate how effective various filtering softwares' filtering mechanisms would be at preventing access to offensive material on the Internet." AOL, MSN and Yahoo have all given the Justice Department the information ___3___. But Google has refused to comply with the request. The government wants a list of all search terms entered into the company's search engine during an unspecified single week. In addition, prosecutors want one million randomly selected web addresses from Google's databases. In a letter to the Justice Department, Google lawyers objected to the request saying such information would reveal ___4___ and it was ___5___ than intended to hurrahs.

詞匯:

1.sexually-oriented 性導向

2.violate

v. 違犯,褻瀆,干擾

例句與用法:
I'm committed not to violate the rules.
我有義務不違反規定。
The country violated the international agreement.
這個國家違反了國際協議。

3.valuate

vt. 對...作估價,對.作評價

4.randomly

adv. 任意地,隨便地,胡亂地

5.hurrah

n. 歡呼聲,騷動,歡樂
v. 歡呼,以歡呼迎接,呼萬歲
int. 萬歲

例句與用法:
Hurrah for the Queen!
女王萬歲！