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^^）

I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions and traumatic events that come with being alive. When I was 12 years old, I was responsible for the death of my younger brother in a __1__accident. I __2__ that killed him. In a single moment, my world changed forever. I felt grief, terror, shame and despair more deeply than I __3__imagined. In the aftermath, no one in my shattered family could speak to me about my brother's death, and __4___ left me alone with all my agonizing emotions. And under those emotions, something even more terrible: a knowledge that all the easy meanings I had lived by until then had been suddenly and utterly abolished.One consequence of traumatic violence is that it isolates its victims. It can cut us off from other people, it can also cut us off from their own emotional lives until...

词汇解析

1.emotional

adj. 感情的,情绪的

例句与用法:
She had a major emotional upset.
她情绪上受到了沉重的打击。
Her emotional appeal left him completely cold.
她虽动情，他却无动於衷。

2.chaos

n. 混乱

例句与用法:
He sees that human stupidity and greed are about to plunge Europe into chaos.
他看到人间的愚蠢和贪婪即将使欧洲陷入一片混乱。
After the failure of the electricity supplies the city was in chaos.
电力供应中断，城市陷于混乱之中。

3.spiritual

adj. 精神的,心灵的
n. (尤指美国南部黑人的)圣歌

例句与用法:
They seem to exist on a different spiritual plane.
他们似乎生活在不同的精神境界.
I bought a book on the passing of spiritual authority from the apostles through successive popes and other bishops.
我买了一本关于神权自使徒传至教皇及其他主教的一脉相承的书。

4.confusion

n. 混乱,混淆

例句与用法:
The room was in confusion after the birthday party.
生日晚会之后, 房间里一片混乱。
This misprint led to great confusion.
这个印刷错误造成很大的混淆。

5.traumatic

n. 外伤药
adj. 外伤的,创伤的

例句与用法:
Our journey home was pretty traumatic.
我们归途中不太顺心.

6.rifle

n. 步枪
v. 洗劫,抢劫

例句与用法:
The hostage had a rifle levelled at his head.
一枝步枪瞄准著人质的头.
The hunter steadied his rifle and fired.
猎人端稳了猎枪，然后开了火。

7.grief

n. 悲痛,忧伤

例句与用法:
She uttered a wail of grief.
她悲痛地大声尖叫.
No words can express my grief.
我的忧伤无法用语言表达.

8.utterly

adv. 完全,全然,绝对

例句与用法:
I feel utterly zonked.
我感到精疲力竭了.
Considering the losses in the disaster area, our support was an utterly inadequate measure.
比起灾区的损失, 我们的支援不过杯水车薪。