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^^）

Okay. The controversy over the port deal raises concern about foreigners owning all kinds of pieces of America, ___1___ in places. As NPR's Eric Weiner reports, it's not for the first time.

Close you eyes and ___2___ your mind back to a ___3___, an ancient time that's difficult for modern man to fathom: 1988. Japan is an economic juggernaut, swallowing pieces of America like so much tekka-maki: Rockefeller Center, Universal Studios, Pebble Beach. "Where will Japan Strike Next?" screams a typical headline.

Well, we now know that those fears were unfounded. Japan turned out to be a toothless tiger. But in the years since, something funny happened, something that doesn't usually make headlines. Other countries have been slowly buying up pieces of America. Clyde Prestowitz is president of the Economic Strategy Institute. "The supermarkets in the US are owned in Holland, and a lot of the hotels in the US are owned in the UK, and a lot of the semi-conductor industry in the US is in foreign ownership. ___4___, it's very ___5___."

词汇解析

1.controversy ['kɔntrəvə:si]

n. 争论,争议

例句与用法:
A disagreement or controversy.
意见分歧不一致或有争议
The remark touched off a heated controversy.
这句话引起了热烈的争论。

2.cast [kɑ:st]

n. 演员阵容,投掷
v. 投,掷,抛

例句与用法:
She's cast off three boy-friends in a month.
她一个月里就甩了三个男朋友。
I can't bear young people casting away their youth.
我无法忍受年轻人虚掷青春。

3.bygone ['bai.gɔ:n]

n. 过去的事
adj. 过去的

例句与用法:
His talk was evocative of the bygone days.
他的谈话令人回忆起往昔的时日。
The two boys agreed to let bygone be bygone and make friend again.
两个孩子决定捐弃前嫌，重新做朋友。

4.era ['iərə]

n. 纪元,时代,年代

例句与用法:
My professor studies flora of the Palaeozoic Era.
我的教授研究古生代的植物群。
His death marked the end of an era.
他的死标志著一个时代的结束.

5.fathom ['fæðəm]

n.&v. 测量深度,看穿,彻底了解

例句与用法:
He dipped the stick into the water to fathom its depth.
他把棍条浸入水中, 试探水的深度。
I cannot fathom his meaning.
我不能彻底了解他的意思。
The ship sank in four fathoms.
这条船沉下四英寻。

6.juggernaut ['dʒʌgənɔ:t]

n. 摧毁一切的强大力量

例句与用法:
The Juggernaut of war.
迷信战事而使人牺牲一切

7.extensive [iks'tensiv]

adj. 广泛的,广阔的

例句与用法:
The castle will undergo extensive and costly renovations.
那城堡要用钜资进行全面整修.
The teacher had both extensive knowledge and profound scholarship.
先生的学问博大精深。
There is now extensive literature dealing with the First World War.
现有大量关于第一次世界大战的文献。
He has an extensive vocabulary.
他词汇很丰富。