NPR邊聽邊練33:迪拜港口收購案又惹國家安全話題

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

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(shí)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(duì)?

(參考文本，歡迎指出錯(cuò)誤^^)

Okay. The controversy over the port deal raises concern about foreigners owning all kinds of pieces of America, ___1___ in places. As NPR's Eric Weiner reports, it's not for the first time.

Close you eyes and ___2___ your mind back to a ___3___, an ancient time that's difficult for modern man to fathom: 1988. Japan is an economic juggernaut, swallowing pieces of America like so much tekka-maki: Rockefeller Center, Universal Studios, Pebble Beach. "Where will Japan Strike Next?" screams a typical headline.

Well, we now know that those fears were unfounded. Japan turned out to be a toothless tiger. But in the years since, something funny happened, something that doesn't usually make headlines. Other countries have been slowly buying up pieces of America. Clyde Prestowitz is president of the Economic Strategy Institute. "The supermarkets in the US are owned in Holland, and a lot of the hotels in the US are owned in the UK, and a lot of the semi-conductor industry in the US is in foreign ownership. ___4___, it's very ___5___."

參考答案：

1. at least

2. cast

3. bygone era

4. I mean

5. extensive