【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^^）

Any snowfall which brings traffic to a ___1___ and closes schools takes me back to one particular storm in my youth on the ___2___ of Lake Erie. On that day, schools and stores were closed because of the weather. What ___3___ for me is a six-block walk I took with my father from our house to the post office. He bought me stamps for my recently started stamp collection. I early had a wild assortment of ___4___ stamps from around the world. He bought me brand new stamps. I can ___5___ in my mind, walking on snow-covered sidewalks in the streets. It was unusual to be going for a walk with my father on a weekday and so close to home. In the following years I never talked about that walk with him. I never even thought about it until it appeared to me about a decade ago. A winter memory now return to the forefront.

詞匯:

1.resonate

v. 產生共鳴

2.stamps

印壓
印記

例句與用法:
Will Tom continue to collect stamps or is it only a passing fad?
湯姆還在集郵呢, 還是熱勁已過?
The Queen's head appears in profile on British stamps.
英國郵票上有女王的側面頭像.
It cost me 100 dollars to collect the stamps.
收集這些郵票花了我一百塊錢。

3.assortment

n. 分類,配合,各色俱備之物

例句與用法:
The natural formation in offspring of genetic combinations not present in parents, by the processes of crossing over or independent assortment.
重組父母沒有表現而其子嗣自然形成基因重組之現象，這是由于采用了雜交或獨立分類的方法而出現的
The shop has a rich assortment of goods.
這個商店有各種各樣的貨品。
There are wide assortments of gifts to choose from.
那兒有各式各樣的禮品可供選擇。

4.forefront

n. 最前部,最前線

例句與用法:
Earlier a Presidential commission… probed the market's structure for defects and came up with a laundry list of weaknesses with program trading in the forefront.
前些時一個總統授命成立的委員會探究［股票］市場的結構，以便找出缺點。結果毛病一籮筐，其中以程式交易為最顯著的缺點。
The brave soldier was in the forefront of the fighting.
那個勇敢的士兵戰斗在最前線。