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第398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。
BLOCK: Jonathan, you've been talking with some teachers who _1_ this assault and parents of some of the students who _2_. What else have they told you about what happened today?
BOONE: It was like any other school day. I mean, one teacher I talked to was supervising an exam. About 60 people were just getting down to going through their test when the firing began. And as I said, these gunmen moved through, killing indiscriminately — children and staff _3_, some at point-blank range. There have also been reports that some of these people warned children who they were about to kill to essentially say their prayers, to say their last prayers and prepare for death.
BLOCK: There has been no shortage of bloody, deadly attacks by the Pakistani Taliban. How does this one compare?
BOONE: In terms of numbers, it seems to be the most, perhaps the worst ever, in a single attack. And these mass civilian attacks tend to involve large bombs. This, as we know, involved gunmen going around essentially executing as many people as possible with the vast majority of them being young boys. I've covered quite a few terrible massacres in my time in Pakistan. But this has horrified the nation in a way that none of the others that I _4_ really have.
喬納森，你采訪了一些在這起襲擊案中幸存的教師還有受傷學生的家長。他們有跟你說今天事件的其他情況嗎？
布恩：今天和其他上課日一樣。我是說，我采訪的一名老師當時正在監考。槍聲響起時有約60名學生剛剛開始考試。就像我說的，這些槍手對學生和教師進行無差別掃射，其中有一些人是被近距離射殺的。有報道稱，這些襲擊者讓馬上就要被他們殺死的學生做禱告，讓他們做最后的禱告并準備死亡。
布洛克：巴基斯坦塔利班發動了很多殘暴致命的襲擊，這次襲擊有什么不同？
布恩：從死亡人數上看，這可能是有史以來最嚴重的一次襲擊。一般針對平民的襲擊都會使用炸彈。而據我們所知，這起襲擊是槍手四處射擊，企圖射殺更多的人，而絕大部分遇害者都是年輕男學生。我在巴基斯坦期間曾報道過大量可怕的屠殺事件。可是這次襲擊給整個巴基斯坦造成的震驚是我此前從未見過的。
詞匯解析：
1. get down to sth./doing sth.
開始干，著手做（尤指需花費精力之事）；
eg. Okay, that's the broad plan—let's get down to the specifics.
好，這是總的計劃——下面來談談具體細節。
eg. It's time I got down to thinking about that essay.
我該認真思考一下那篇論文了。
2. point-blank
近距離的；抵近的；
eg. He had been shot at point-blank range in the back of the head.
他被人近距離開槍擊中后腦。
eg. He fired the gun from point-blank range.
他在近距離開了槍。
3. be about to do sth.
即將（做…）的；快要（發生…）的；
eg. They were about to fight when their father intervened.
他們的父親出來調停時,他們已經快要打起來了。
eg. He is about to embark on a new business venture.
他就要開始新的商業冒險活動。
4. no shortage of
不缺乏；不缺少；
eg. America has no shortage of strangely named clubs.
美國有不少名字稀奇古怪的俱樂部。
eg. There's no shortage of ideas when it comes to improving the education of children.
談到改善孩子教育問題，大家都想法多多。
5. in terms of
在…方面；從…角度看；根據…來說；
eg. In terms of quantity, production grew faster than ever before.
從數量上看，產量增長的速度比以往任何時期都要快。
eg. He expresses something in terms of science.
他用科學的語言表達事物。
