NPR邊聽邊練39:“沃爾瑪效應”作者訪談

【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^^)

This is All Things Considered from NPR News. I'm Melissa Block. And I'm Robert Siegel. To business journalist Charles Fishman, Wal-Mart is a mammoth American success story, a transforming but ___1___ force in the American economy. It is an expression of our preference for low prices. It is a force driving manufacturing jobs overseas. It is not so much a business as an economic phenomenon. And he's written a book about it, The Wal-Mart Effect. Charles Fishman says, we have to know more about Wal-Mart, because of its ___2___ and its power. There are nearly 4,000 Wal-Mart stores in the United States alone. 90% of Americans live within 15 miles to the Wal-Mart. So they are everywhere. The company is 2% of the United States' economy all by itself, which is ___3___. And Wal-Mart is the No.1 seller of guns in America, ___4___, DVDs, bicycles and toys. So if you makes guns or ___4___ or movies, every morning you wake up thinking about the same major customer, Wal-Mart.

參考答案：

1. secretive 隱秘的

2. sheer size 巨大的規(guī)模

3. extra-ordinary 非同尋常的

4. deodorant 除臭劑