【NPR边听边练】致力于提供新鲜有趣、饶有意味的时讯资料，致力于通过精听的方式促进听力提高，致力于不断开阔眼界和深入了解美国观点。

精听建议：
先完整地把一条新闻听一到三遍，争取掌握大意。然后，一句一句精听，力争每句话都听明白。遇到实在不懂的地方，再听写。

下面的文本材料中空缺部分里面要填的词都很简单，不过是一些值得注意的连读或者典型的美式发音哦，有些语速比较快。试试看，你能不能全部写对？

（参考文本，欢迎指出错误^^）
This morning we are going to talk to Cokie about the situation of her hometown New Orleans. Cokie has just returned from her first visit to New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina. She's ___(1)___ . "Cokie, welcome." "Thanks, Steve." " You spoke to us on the morning the Hurricane hit, Monday Aug. 29 , and you said this about your home city :' it is a city that has withstood so many things over its ___(2)___ and the idea that the leeves could break is really something that is almost impossible to contemplate." Now we had a couple of months to contemplate this and it's still hard to ___(3)___ ." Well, 'Cos you've been there, Steve. I had not and you have that experience, any of those who's covered disasters which ___(4)___. Where you usually see a terrible area and then you see normalcy. There is nothing normal. You ___(5)___ mile after mile of this devastation and so many little moments of it that just hit you.