NPR邊聽邊練43:那個雪天,我的父親

【NPR邊聽邊練】致力于提供新鮮有趣、饒有意味的時訊資料，致力于通過精聽的方式促進聽力提高，致力于不斷開闊眼界和深入了解美國觀點。

精聽建議：

先完整地把一條新聞聽一到三遍，爭取掌握大意。然后，一句一句精聽，力爭每句話都聽明白。遇到實在不懂的地方，再聽寫。

下面的文本材料中空缺部分里面要填的詞都很簡單，不過是一些值得注意的連讀或者典型的美式發(fā)音哦，有些語速比較快。試試看，你能不能全部寫對?

(參考文本，歡迎指出錯誤^^)

Any snowfall which brings traffic to a ___1___ and closes schools takes me back to one particular storm in my youth on the ___2___ of Lake Erie. On that day, schools and stores were closed because of the weather. What ___3___ for me is a six-block walk I took with my father from our house to the post office. He bought me stamps for my recently started stamp collection. I early had a wild assortment of ___4___ stamps from around the world. He bought me brand new stamps. I can ___5___ in my mind, walking on snow-covered sidewalks in the streets. It was unusual to be going for a walk with my father on a weekday and so close to home. In the following years I never talked about that walk with him. I never even thought about it until it appeared to me about a decade ago. A winter memory now return to the forefront.

參考答案：

1. stand-still

2. shores

3. resonates

4. cancelled

5. retrace the route