NPR磨耳朵：愤怒使人进步

听写完了每天的VOA，是否还想再找点材料来培养一下“听感”？耳朵经常磨，听觉才会越来越灵敏哦~~~
让我们一同走进NPR的广阔世界，丰富盛宴等着你！快来叫醒你的耳朵吧！

一、主餐一道：泛听练习

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Morning Edition, September 26, 2005 · Cecilia Munoz is vice president of the Office of Research, Advocacy and Legislation at the National Council of La Raza. Born in Detroit to Bolivian immigrants, she has worked on behalf of Hispanic-Americans. Munoz was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2000.

注：今天采用的材料是NPR每周一的This I Believe，是一档给听众发表自己观点，朗读自己文章的栏目。文章有官方文稿。

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泛听作业：请用一句话概括上面材料的内容。

二、点心一碟：填空练习（看看你的耳朵有多灵敏？）

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这是从上面材料中截取的一段。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？

After a dinner table conversation ___(1)___ about the wars going on in Central America and the involvement of the United States (my country by birth and my parents' country by choice), a good friend said the thing that ___(2)___. He told me that he thought the U.S. might someday go to war somewhere in ___(3)___. He looked me in the eye and told me that if it happens, he believes my parents belong in an internment camp just like the Japanese-Americans during World War II.
Now this was someone who knew us, who had ___(4)___ and knew how American we are. We are a little exotic maybe, but it never occurred to me that we were anything but an American family. For my friend, as for many others, there will always be doubt ___(5)___ whether we really belong in this country, which is our home, enough doubt to justify taking away our freedom

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