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 that families are not only blood relatives, but sometimes just people that___1___ and love you when no one else will.In May 1977, I ___2___Howard Johnson's motel off of Interstate 10 in Houston. My dad and I shared a room with two double beds and a bathroom way too small for a modest 15-year-old girl and her father. Dad's second marriage was in trouble and my stepmother ___3___ the house the previous week. Dad had no idea what to do with me. And that's when my other family showed up. Barbara and Roland Beach ___4___ their home because their only daughter, Su, my best friend, asked them to. I lived with them for the next seven years.Barb starched my drill team skirts same as Su's. She made sure I had lunch money, doctors' appointments, help with homework, Jordache jeans, puka shell necklaces and nightly hugs. Barbara and Roland attended every football game where Su and I marched, every drama performance I was in even when I had no speaking lines. As far as I could tell, for the Beaches, there was no difference between Su and me: I was their daughter, too.When Su and I ___5___ rival colleges, they kept my room the same for the entire four years I attended school.

词汇解析

1.show up

v. 揭露, 露出, 露面

例句与用法:
The dust on the shelf show up in the sunlight.
在阳光照射下能看见架子上有灰尘。
Careful contrast of the two plan show up some key difference.
把这两个计划仔细地加以对比就可以看出一些关键性的差异
His show-off only serves to show up his ignorance.
他的卖弄只不过暴露了他自己的无知。

2.starch [stɑ:tʃ]

n. 淀粉
vt. 给...上浆

例句与用法:
An edible starch made from these plants.
葛粉从这些植物中提取的食用淀粉
Sugar and starch are broken down in the stomach.
糖和淀粉在胃里被分解.
You eat too much starch.
你吃的含淀粉的食物太多了。

3.As far as

就...而言,至于,远到

例句与用法:
This is a book, which I dare say, is unequaled as far as translation practice is concerned.
就翻译训练而言我认为这是一本无出其右的好书。
You'll be accompanied as far as the border, thereafter you must find your own way.
有人送你到边境，然后你必须自己走了。
As far as I know, he is kind.
就我所知，他人不错。

4.attend [ə'tend]

v. 参加,注意,照料

例句与用法:
I shall be attending the meeting.
我会参加会议。
Danger attended everything he did.
他所做的每一件事都有危险。