NPR磨耳朵:日本-尖端电子产品的首发站
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一、主餐一道：泛听练习
On this Labor Day, David Wessel, deputy Washington bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal, talks to Steve Inskeep about wages of the American worker. Wessel says that according to new government figures, American productivity is up, but very often, wages are not.
泛听建议：
1、完整听一遍，掌握大意。
2、继续听，特别注意关键信息。
3、碰到听起来似曾相识的词汇，马上记录下来。
二、填空：
以下段落是摘自新闻里的一些重要信息,并不是一个段落的听写.空内信息可在本新闻中全部找到,大家可以根据这些信息复述新闻(本文稿由roxielost听写，欢迎指出错误^^)
Some of the world’s must-have gadgets or products you normally can not have if you shop in American electric stores. Some stuff like:
1.A ___1___video camera and a digital-still camera all in one unit. It is the size of a cellphone can___2___. It works pretty well.
2.___3___: 5-inch wide screen, only 1-inch thick. This can actually fit in a purse or in my back pocket.
Why would it been for sale for Tokyo first?
There’s been this concept that technology and consumer electronics in Japan are ___4___. They are more mobile and used to it. We do have a earlier adopt rate but a lot of times people ___5___ and buy the first innovation and first version of a product. They’d rather wait to see of other ___6___ are gonna be out.
There is a market in U.S.
European and Asia electronic companies are starting to realize there is a market in U.S. and doing some kind of ___7___. The ___8___ is shortening. It used to be this window of 18 months or 12 months ___9___. And now you started to see some products show up sooner. Nintendo has decided to launch Nintendo DS in the States relatively quickly as it launched it in Japan.