第394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
。空內信息可在本新聞中全部找到,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 。79% of American teens enroll in college by the age of 20. By age 26,nearly 90% of teens _1_ a four years program. But NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports a new study examines why a fifth of national teens don't enroll in college after high school.
全美有79%的青年人在20歲時進入大學 。有近90%的青年人在26歲完成了四年的學業 。但是據NPR新聞的克勞迪奧·桑切斯報道,一項新研究揭示了全美五分之一的青年人在畢業后沒有進入大學的原因 。
The study commission by the National School Boards Association and the Center for Public Education _2_ this profile of a typical American teenager would not immediately go on the college. This student tended to be a male, poor. His parent may own a high school diploma but no more.He's likely to do _3_ in a rural community in the south, and though he thought to go to college, money was the biggest reason he didn't. In high school he took the easiest courses and still got poor grades. He did little on homework and did not do well on tests. And yet, as the study points out he eventually _4_ college even if it was 9 or 8 years after he graduated from high school. Claudio Sanchez, NPR News.
美國全國學校董事會協會公眾教育中心的研究委員會提供的文件表明,典型的美國青年人不會在高中畢業后立即進入大學 。這類學生往往是男性,而且很貧窮 。他的父母可能擁有高中文憑,但是沒有獲得更高的學歷 。他可能在南部的農村社區謀生,雖然他想上大學,但是因為沒有錢所以不能上大學 。這類人在高中時選擇了最簡單的課程,但成績依然很差 。他幾乎不怎么做作業,考試成績也不好 。但是研究指出,這類人在高中畢業八九年后最終還是進入了大學 。NPR新聞,克勞迪奧·桑切斯報道 。
Researchers who looking for 16 cases of wild weather around the world last year, including heat waves on Australia, _5_ more than half the cases on manmade climate change. The study was organized by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
研究人員研究了去年全世界發生的16起極端天氣,其中就包括澳大利亞的熱浪,研究人員認為約一半的極端天氣是人為的氣候變化 。這項研究由美國國家海洋和大氣管理局組織 。
詞匯解析:
1. tend to do sth.
往往會;經常就;
eg. I tend to get very uptight during a match.
比賽時我總會緊張得不行 。
eg. Men tend to put on weight in middle age.
男人到了中年往往會發福 。
2. point out
指出,說出(事實或錯誤);
eg. It is important to point out that laws and trends are radically different things.
有必要指出,規律和趨勢是根本不同的兩回事 。
eg. Not only did he point out my shortcomings, but he also helped me to overcome them.
他不但指出我的缺點,而且幫助我改正它們 。