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^^）

Two years ago, Thomas Natrka was enrolled in Ohio University trying to get a master’s degree in mechanical engineering when he ___1___ with his advisor. The advisor had some problems with Natrka’s thesis’ proposal. That prompted the 38-year-old student to go to the school library to ___2___ to try to determine what ___3___. Natrka was ___4___ he found. Many of the papers contained obvious examples of plagiarism. He says in one case more than 15 pages have been copied and another 14 pages including typos. As he pursuit his inquiry, Natrka says he also found evidence that professors in the college of engineering technology had condoned the use of unoriginal and uncited material. “The basis of all this is integrity, incredibility of a degree from O.U. I never imagine that this type of thing would be happening in a graduate program at a reputable, accredited university.” Tom Natrka reported his findings to Ohio University officials earning him a label of whistleblower. Others though attack Natrka as a student ___5___ because his thesis proposal was rejected.

词汇解析

1.mechanical engineering

n. 机械工程(学)

2.dispute [dis'pju:t]

n. 争论
v. 争论

例句与用法:
His honesty is beyond dispute.
他的诚实是无可争议的。
They are disputing about the rights and wrongs of the case.
他们正在激烈争论这个事件的是非曲直。

3.prompt [prɔmpt]

n. 提示
adj. 迅速的,敏捷的,立刻的
vt. 激起,促进,推动

例句与用法:
He is always prompt in answering letters.
他总是迅速回复来信。
She's always prompt to criticize other people's ideas.
她对别人想出的主意总是迫不及待地批评。
His evasive reply prompted me to ask him another question.
他的含糊其词的答复促使我提出又一个问题。

4.obvious ['ɔbviəs, -vjəs]

adj. 明显的,显而易见的

例句与用法:
It is obvious that she is very clever.
很明显，她挺聪明。
The embassy is an obvious target for terrorist attacks.
大使馆是恐怖分子攻击的明显目标。

5.pursuit [pə'sju:t]

n. 追求,追赶,工作

例句与用法:
His life is spent in the pursuit of pleasure.
他一生都在寻欢作乐.
We work hard in pursuit of happy life.
我们为追求幸福生活而努力工作。
What's your favorite pursuit?
你的爱好是什么？

6.accredited [ə'kreditid]

v. 认可(委派,把...归咎,信任)
adj. 被认可的(被...认可的,被普遍采纳的)

例句与用法:
He is accredited with having first introduced this word into the language.
是他在这个语言中首先使用这个词的.
He is accredit to the united nation.
他被任命为联合国大使。

7.grudge [grʌdʒ]

n. 怨恨,恶意
v. 怀恨,嫉妒,吝惜

例句与用法:
He grudges you your reward.
他很吝啬，不愿给你报酬。
He grudged me my success.
他嫉妒我成功。
I always feel he has a grudge against me, although I don't know why.
我总觉得他讨厌我，但我不知道为什么。

8.reject [ri'dʒekt]

n. 被拒之人,不合格品,不及格者
v. 拒绝,驳回,丢弃

例句与用法:
The factory sells some of its better rejects cheaply, but it throws most of the rejects away.
这家公司廉价出售略好一些的次品，但将大多数次品丢弃。
I absolutely reject the management's line on this.
我断然否绝经理部门处理此事的方法.
Imperfect articles are rejected by our quality control.
我们进行质量检验时，有缺陷的产品均予剔除。