听力练习

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，欢迎指正^^）

Lesson51 Best Medicine

Jim worked in the office of a big company. He lived alone in a small comfortable apartment with two rooms, 1 and a bathroom.

At first he cleaned his apartment himself, but he soon found that he was not able to 2 because he was often too busy. So he hired an old lady called Mrs. Roper to do the cleaning for him. Mrs. Roper accepted the employment with pleasure because she thought that was the right job for her.

After she had been working for Jim for two weeks, Jim looked at the 3 in his bedroom and found that mirror was covered by a thick layer of 4 . As a polite young man, he did not want to order Mrs. Roper around, so he wrote a message on the mirror with his finger "I'm coughing these days in this apartment because I have breathed in too much dust."

He came home late that evening. He went into his bedroom and looked at the mirror. "Mrs. Roper didn't seem to have cleaned the room." He said to himself. But then he 5 and saw a bottle in front of the mirror. "I didn't put that bottle there," he thought. "Mrs. Roper must have left it here. He picked the bottle up and looked at it carefully.
"She's written some message for me," he said to himself. It said, "This is the best medicine for your cough."

中文翻译

良药

吉姆在一家大公司的办公室工作。他独自住一套两屋、一厨、一卫的公寓。

起初他自己打扫住处，但很快发现因常常工作忙碌而没有时间做卫生。因此他雇了一个叫做罗珀夫人的老太太给自己打扫房间。罗珀夫人愉快的接受了这份工作，因为她认为这是适合自己的工作。

她工作两周后，吉姆在卧室照镜子时发现镜子上有厚厚的一层灰。作为一个有礼貌的年轻人，他不想当面对她发号施令，因此用手指头在镜子上写了个留言：“这些天我一直咳嗽，因为吸入了太多灰尘。”

当晚他很晚才回家，然后进卧室查看镜子。“看来罗珀夫人没有打扫过房间，”他心里说道，但当弯下腰时他看到镜子前有个瓶子，“我没把瓶子放这儿，”他想，“准是罗珀夫人落下的瓶子。”他把它拾起来，又仔细看了看。

“她给我留言了，”他心想。瓶子上写着：“这是治疗咳嗽最有效的药。”
车，大片大片的郊区——和烟雾。如今的电影大多都在室内拍摄，能找到黄金的最好的地方是在珠宝商店里。

词汇讲解

1. apartment 一套公寓房间

I have an apartment in downtown Manhattan.
我在曼哈顿中心区有一套住房。

We are fascinated by the delicate interior design of the apartment.
我们被这所公寓的精致的室内装潢设计吸引。

2. cough 咳嗽

You really ought to/should do something about that cough!
你咳嗽那麽厉害, 真得治一治了!

She gave a quiet cough to attract my attention.
她轻轻地咳了一声好引起我注意。