听力练习

【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^^）

And he notice something, the crabs that like to crash and eat snails tend to have powerful right claws. That reminded Diedo who’s also a righty of sports “Having played sports myself as a child, remember there is, you know, this thing of ___1___. But I thought we’ll trying to look at this a little bit more.” What sports did you play? “I played baseball.” How did you like ___2___ left-handed pitchers? “ I wasn’t very good at it.” So he wondered do right-handed crabs have a problem when facing a left-handed snail. To find out first he went back in time, his team___3___ nearly two thousand fossil snail shells most were 3 or 4 million years old, and about half were lefty species and half righties. Then the researchers looked at every shell. They wanna to see did ancient crabs ___4___the right-handed snails or the lefties. What they found is that the right-handed shells had far more scars meaning far more crab attacks. “So it’s kind of like being a detective almost when you ___5___, each shell tells a story to me.”

词汇解析

1.notice ['nəutis]

n. 注意,布告,通知
v. 注意,通知,留心

例句与用法:
It was Susan who brought the problem to our notice.
是苏珊提醒我们注意那个问题的。
Did you notice anything peculiar?
你注意到有什么异常的事吗？

2.crash [kræʃ]

n. 轰隆声,猛撞,崩溃,破产,垮台
v. 撞碎,猛使...破碎,迫降

例句与用法:
The rocks crashed (down) onto the car.
岩石轰隆一声砸在汽车上.
He crashed his car (into a wall).
他把汽车撞（到墙上）了.

3.tend [tend]

v. 有某种的倾向,易于,移向

例句与用法:
He's a good salesman, but his offhand manner does tend to put people off.
他是个很好的推销员，可是他那随便的态度容易使人产生反感。
Does he tend to lose?
他常常输吗?

4.round [raund]

n. 圆,范围,巡回
adj. 圆的,肥胖的,完全的
v. 弄圆,绕行,使...完全

例句与用法:
Let's have a good round of applause for the next performer.
咱们为下一个表演者热烈鼓掌吧。
The earth moves round the sun.
地球绕着太阳运转。

5.in time 及时

例句与用法:
National unity is essential in time of war.
举国团结在战时是非常重要的。
Firemen reached the house on fire in time.
消防队员及时赶到那幢失火的房子。

6.prefer [pri'fə:]

v. 较喜欢,宁可,提出

例句与用法:
I prefer tea to coffee.
我更喜欢茶，而不是咖啡。
I prefer fish to meat.
我较喜欢吃鱼。
We prefer to eat out.
我们比较喜欢上馆子吃饭。