英语文本

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^^）

Lesson54 Helen Keller

Helen Keller was born in Alabama in 1 . When she was twenty months old, she got an illness. After her illness Helen became deaf and blind. Her parents did not know what to do.
When Helen was seven years old, her parents got her a special teacher. Her name was Miss Anne Sullivan. Miss Sullivan worked with Helen all day. She took Helen's hand and spelled a word in her hand. Helen soon learned to say what she wanted 2 .
In 1900 Helen entered Radcliffe College. Miss Sullivan sat next to Helen in class. She spelled all the words into Helen's hand. Miss Sullivan also read to Helen all the time. At that time there were only a few books for the blind. These were Braille books. They had a special alphabet made with dots that blind people could read with their 3 . Helen graduated from Radcliffe with honours.
Helen wrote several books. The most famous ones are The Story of My Life and Midstream: My Later Life. She also wrote magazine articles and spoke all over the country. 4 . Miss Sullivan repeated what Helen said. Helen spoke about the deaf and blind. People everywhere became interested. Helen became a symbol of new hope for the 5 .

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中文翻译和词汇注释

海伦凯勒

海伦凯勒于1880年出生在阿拉巴马。当她20个月时她生了一场病，病后她变得又聋又瞎，她的父母束手无策。
当海伦7岁时，她的父母给她请来了一个特殊的老师，名叫安妮沙利文小姐。沙利文小姐整天和海伦一起学习。她拉着海伦的手，在她手上拼写单词。海伦很快学会以这种方式表达她想表达的意思。

1900年海伦进入了拉德克里夫学院。课堂上沙利文小姐坐在海伦旁边。她把所有单词拼写在海伦手上。沙利文小姐还一直给海伦朗读。那时，专门给盲人阅读的书籍非常少，盲文书籍是以点构成的特殊的字母，盲人可以通过用手指触摸这些点来阅读。海伦以优异的成绩从拉德克里夫学院毕业。

海伦写了几本书，其中最著名的是《我的一生》和《我的后半生》。她还写了许多杂志文章，在世界各地演讲。听懂她说话不是件容易的事，沙利文小姐重复海伦的话。海伦谈论聋哑人和盲人。各地的人都很感兴趣。海伦成为了聋哑人和盲人新的希望的象征。

注释：

deaf聋哑的
alphabet字母表
dot点
Braille盲文
symbol象征