【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^^）

The Super Bowl this weekend isn't just the most important advent in football. It's also a championship day for pizza delivery. Sunday is the biggest one-day revenue generator for the pizza business and no one knows this better than Domino's Pizza. Besides ___1___ on extra dose, some Domino's franchise owners are taking extra steps to get employees (to) mentally ___2___ for the big day, lots of deliveries on Sunday. Jeff Dufficy owns a Domino's franchise in Foxboro Massachusetts, and he joins us now.

"How are you?" "Hi, I'm very good. Thanks." "So, I understand you actually have pep rallies for your employees." "Yeah. It started the first time the Patriots, you know we are die-hard fans adhering (to) New England, and it started the first time the Patriots made ___3___. Back in '96, we were just so excited about the game, and (when) beated in the playoff, we came along all over the paths and started doing some jumping jacks and ___4___, this kind of stuff with football season ever since." "So ___5___ your employees go out into the parking lot and do jumping jacks?"

词汇:

1.championship

n. 冠军赛,冠军

例句与用法:
She persevered in her efforts to win the championship.
她为赢得冠军而不断努力.
Which football team is the leader in the football championship?
现在哪个队在足球锦标赛中领先？

2.stock up

vt. 储存(储备,囤积)

例句与用法:
People seldom stock up on Chinese cabbage now.
现在人们很少贮存大白菜了。
As soon as they heard about possible food shortages, they began to stock up.
他们一听说食物可能短缺, 就立即储备起来.

3.mentally

adv. 心理上,精神上,用脑筋

例句与用法:
Do you think in English or translate mentally from your own language?
你是用英语思考呢, 还是在头脑中把自己的语言翻译过来呢?

4.franchise

n. 特权, 公民权
v. 赋予特权, 赋予公民权

例句与用法:
He have buy a hot dog franchise.
他购买了一家热狗特许经营店。
A franchise to sell specified items in a certain area.
商品经销特许权在某一区域内出售某特定商品的特许权

5.push-ups

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