NPR邊聽(tīng)邊練36:禽流感蔓延的禍?zhǔn)资撬B(niǎo)嗎？

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精聽(tīng)建議：

先完整地把一條新聞聽(tīng)一到三遍，爭(zhēng)取掌握大意。然后，一句一句精聽(tīng)，力爭(zhēng)每句話都聽(tīng)明白。遇到實(shí)在不懂的地方，再聽(tīng)寫(xiě)。

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

(參考文本，歡迎指出錯(cuò)誤^^)

Asian bird flu is turning up in Europe. Mute swans killed by the virus have been found in Greece, Italy, Austria, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Germany. Dead swans found in Denmark are still being tested. ___1___ say these discoveries show that waterfowl are moving this virus around. Ornithologists say that is far from proven. NPR's John Nielsen reports.

Migrating waterfowl, often rest at the ___2___ at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. Today ___3___ mallards does most of the ___4___ and quacking. Peter Marra, a migration expert with the zoo, says it's long been known that ducks, swans and geese can carry the bird flu virus.

"About 30 percent of ducks like these might be carrying some form of low pathogenic avian influenza, which doesn't hurt them or other ducks or animals that they might ___5___." Marra says it used to be assumed that the virulent H5N1 virus killed migrating waterfowl before they could go anywhere, but that assumption has taken some hits in recent months.

參考答案：

1. Health officials

2. duck pond

3. a crowd of

4. humphings

5. interact with