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第327期：主餐一道：泛聽練習
以下段落是摘自新聞里的一些重要信息,并不是一個段落的聽寫?？諆刃畔⒖稍诒拘侣勚腥空业?大家可以根據這些信息復述新聞。
一、泛聽建議：
1、完整聽一遍，掌握大意。
2、繼續聽，特別注意關鍵信息。遇到相似的詞，寫下來。
President Obama _1_ Congress to boost economic opportunities for women. He's calling on lawmakers to address the lack of pay equity in the workplace and to raise the minimum wage.
奧巴馬總統敦促國會增加女性的經濟機會。他呼吁議員解決工作中存在的薪酬不公平問題，同時要求提高最低工資。
"On average, a woman still _2_ just 77 cents for every dollar a man does. And too many women face _3_ workplace policies that hold them back."
平均而言，在工作中一個男性可以得到1美元而女性只能拿到77美分。而且有很多女性要面對阻礙她們發展的陳舊的工作規則。
Speaking in his weekly address today, the President said that the economy has not caught up with the fact that women now make up almost half of the workforce.
今天，總統在每周講話中表示，現在事實是女性占據了近一半的勞動力人口，但是經濟情況卻未能跟上。
In China today, First Lady Michelle Obama told _4_ that freedom of speech and free access to information make country stronger and should be universal rights. Obama spoke to students at Peking University in Beijing.
中國方面，今天，第一夫一米歇爾·奧巴馬告訴學生們，言論自由和信息通暢公開使國家更加強大，同時這也應該是普遍權利。米歇爾·奧巴馬在北京大學發表演講。
詞匯解析：
1、on average
平均起來；按平均值；
eg. On average, 15 worth of goods is stole every day.
平均每天被竊取的貨物價值為15英鎊。
eg. Representative cost on average 25,000 per head per annum.
每年每人平均花費25000英鎊。
2. hold back
阻擋；阻止；
eg. Stagnation in home sales is holding back economic recovery.
國內銷售的停滯不前正阻礙著經濟復蘇。
eg. Jake wanted to wake up, but sleep held him back.
杰克想要醒來，但睡意使他又沉入夢鄉。
3. catch up with
趕上；追上；跟上；趕上，達到（標準、水平等）；
eg. Old age and infirmity had begun to catch up with him.
他開始顯出年老體衰的樣子了。
eg. And you must do your best to catch up with others.
因此，你必須盡最大努力趕上其他人。
