NPR边听边练:报纸VS网络,报业前景如何
日期:2009-03-12 15:57

(单词翻译:单击)

【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^^)
We called Jeff Collar, a consultant to the newspaper industry. He says ___(1)___ declining circulation is by design. ___(2)___ readers, some companies are now putting quality over quantity.
"For years, the objective of the industry was expansion and to deliver the highest circulation number possible. Some newspapers sold ___(3)___ to entitle new subscribers. But when you factor in the high cost of discounting, that's a lesser unit of circulation. So some of these losses are filling in the hurt, ___(4)___."
But still a lot of newspapers are infected, ___(5)___ and they certainly don't want to. And where are they going? The Internet, I gather, is doing rather well.

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重点单词
  • decliningadj. 下降的,衰落的 动词decline的现在分词
  • expansionn. 扩大,膨胀,扩充
  • gatherv. 聚集,聚拢,集合 n. 集合,聚集
  • factorn. 因素,因子 vt. 把 ... 因素包括进去 vi
  • objectiveadj. 客观的,目标的 n. 目标,目的; 物镜 n.
  • quantityn. 量,数量,大量
  • functionn. 功能,函数,职务,重大聚会 vi. 运行,起作用
  • collarn. 衣领,项圈,[机]轴环 vt. 抓住,为 ...
  • circulationn. 流通,循环,发行量,消息传播
  • entitlevt. 取名为,使有权利