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，歡迎指正^^）

Lesson24 A Swimming Test
1 , there was a boy named Stephen. Stephen had read a lot of books about ships and their voyages and he was fascinated by them. When he was sixteen, he decided that he wanted to become a navy officer, so he went to navy school.
One day the teachers 2 the students that they are going to have swimming and diving lessons. Stephen arrived at the pool the next morning with the other students. He was 3 learning to swim.
The teacher commanded those who could not swim to go into one group, those who could swim but not dive properly to go into a second group, and those who could both swim and dive well to go into a third one. Stephen went into the second group.
The teacher then told the students in the second group to go down into the swimming pool and swim to the other end. Stephen 4 the steps, but as soon as he began to swim, he sank. When he did not come up again, the alarmed teacher jumped in and dragged him out of the water. Then the teacher said to Stephen, 'Why ever didn't you join the group that can't swim?'
'Because I'd never even bathed 5 before,' Stephen answered, 'so I didn't know whether I could swim or not.'

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