四级考试是许多童鞋必须通过的考试，其重要程度不言而喻。希望通过四级听力天天练，童鞋们可以提高听力水平，高分通过四级，冲刺六级。

全文听写，童鞋们注意数字听写规则哦~~


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Civil War
American
Memorial Day
Illinois
get-together
My Civil War veteran grandfathers had special American flags on their graves, and my grandmother never tired of telling me why they were there. The emphasis was truly on honoring and remembering the dead, as it is today in many ways. Of course, we children were interested in the chocolate cake that was always in picnic basket. This year we celebrated Memorial Day by getting together with good friends in the late afternoon. All of our dead relatives are buried in Illinois, about 400 miles from here, so we took no fresh flowers there. We had hoped our get-together would be a picnic in the backyard of a friend, but it rained so we had our picnic indoors. Still it was good to be with friends.