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^^）

British homes

British homes are usually smaller than american homes. But like americans, all people,young families and american people do not 1 . Many brats love old houses and there are more expensive than 2 . They also love gardening and you will see gardens everywhere you go in towns,villages and 3 .

Some are very small with just one tree and a few flowers, others are in normal with plenty of flowers 4 , trees to fed a family. There are 19 million homes in Britain, big homes and small homes, all the colleges and few high rise building, houses and flats. 5 families in britain own their own homes. Million of these, owner occupy houses are the same with two or three bedrooms and bathroom stairs,a sitting room,dinning rooms and kitchen downstairs and small garden at back and front of the house. To pay for their house, home owners borrow money from a building society and pay back a little every month. One third of british population live in rented stays on the homes called counsel houses. Many of these are flats. But some of house is each with small pieces of gardens. Other people rent their homes or gardens from private owners.

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中文翻译

英国人的家
英国人的家一般比美国人的家要小一些。但是和美国人一样，所有的人，年轻的家庭和美国人通常不住在一起。许多英国人喜欢老房子，老房子比现代的房子要贵很多。
他们也喜欢园艺，你在城镇、乡村以及村子外面，随处都可以看到花园。
有些园子比较小，仅有1棵树和一些花儿，有的花园则很大，有许多花儿和足以供家庭食用的蔬菜和果树。
英国的住所共计1,900万处，包括大大小小的家庭、历史悠久的高校、一些高楼大厦、房子以及公寓。英国半数的家庭都有自己的房子。上百万的个人房，相同之处在于，都有两三个卧室，楼上一个浴室，
楼下一个客厅、餐厅以及厨房，房子后面和前面有小花园。为了支付房子的费用，房主可以从建房互助协会借钱，每月分期支付小额费用。英国三分之一的人口租住在国家住房里面，也就是地方当局营造的简易住宅。
这些简易住宅许多都是公寓。但是也有一些房子每套都配有小花园。其他人也从私人手中租赁他们的家或者公寓。