NPR邊聽邊練240：美學校提前開學

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一、泛聽建議：

1、完整聽一遍，掌握大意。

2、繼續(xù)聽，特別注意關鍵信息。遇到相似的詞，寫下來。

While a number of schools _1_ earlier -- they did prior to Labor Day, many have already run to a problem -- high heat across much of the nation. As temperatures rose into the 90s last week in the Midwest, a number of schools had to either find creative ways for kids to cool off or simply canceled classes. In a number of school systems they were under pressure to start early, but they do not have air conditioning in much of the building. Schools have moved towards the early start days because they need more time for teacher training and testing.

許多學校提已經前開學，他們在勞動節(jié)前一天開學，許多學校都遇到了問題，那就是席卷全美的高溫。上周，中西部地區(qū)的氣溫上升至90華氏度，一些學?；驗閷W生提供降溫的有效方法，或是直接取消課程。在一些學校系統(tǒng)中，他們面臨著壓力所以選擇提前開學，但是他們的大多數教學樓中并沒有安裝空調。學校近來有提前開學的趨勢，因為他們需要更多的時間進行教師培訓和測試。

Hispanics in the US continue to disperse throughout the nation. Members of the country's largest minority group are gradually moving into new states and cities. NPR's Ted Robbins has more.

美國的拉美裔繼續(xù)分散在各處。美國最大少數種族的成員正逐漸搬往新興州和新興城市。NPR新聞的泰德·羅賓斯將帶來更多報道。

According to the Pew center's Hispanic Trends Project, Latinos _2_ away from traditionally Latino counties. Seventy-one percent of Latinos live in those counties compared with 78% two decades ago. Still even 71% is a large number in _3_ areas. Census data shows that half of all Latinos in the US still live in California,Texas and Florida. People of Mexican descent tend to live in the West and Southwest. Puerto Ricans and _4_ in the New York, New Jersey region, and Cuban Americans are concentrated in the Miami area. The largest growth area for Hispanics over the last decade has been in the nation's Southeast. Ted Robbins, NPR News.

據皮尤中心拉美裔趨勢項目的調查，拉美裔逐漸搬離傳統(tǒng)的拉美人口聚居縣?，F在有71%的拉美裔人口生活在這些縣，而20年前人口比重為78%。當然，在人口集中的地區(qū)71%也是個龐大的比重。人口普查數據顯示，在美國的所有拉美裔人口中有一半人仍然生活在加利福尼亞州、得克薩斯州和佛羅里達州。墨西哥人往往選擇生活在西部和西南部地區(qū)，波多黎各人和多米尼加人集中于紐約、新澤西地區(qū)，古巴裔美國人則多集中于邁阿密一帶。過去10年拉美裔人口增長最快的地區(qū)為美國的東南部地區(qū)。NPR新聞，泰德·羅賓斯報道。

Quite an up-and-down summer movie season. Hollywood is winding up the final weekend of the summer with the record 4.7 billion dollars in box office revenues. The boy band concert will be One Direction: This is us, raking in an estimated 18 million dollars for Sony Pictures. But that was not enough to unseat the No.1 box office draw over the weekend. Lee Daniels' The Butler would shoot an estimated 20 million dollars. Both attendance and revenues were up from last year.

今年的暑期電影檔極其起伏不定。最后一個夏季周末結束后，好萊塢獲得了創(chuàng)記錄的47億美元的票房收入。男孩團體的演唱會電影《單向樂隊：這就是我們》吸金約1800萬美元，該片由索尼影業(yè)發(fā)行。但是這并不足以撼動周末票房冠軍的位置。李·丹尼爾斯執(zhí)導的《白宮管家》預計會席卷2000萬美元的票房。相比去年，今年的上映影片數和票房收入均有所上升。

詞匯解析：

1. wind up

完成;停止;關閉;最終落得;(以…)告終;

eg. The President is about to wind up his visit to Somalia.

總統(tǒng)即將結束對索馬里的訪問。

eg. The Bank of England seems determined to wind up the company.

英格蘭銀行似乎決心要關閉這家公司。

eg. Little did I know that I would actually wind up being on the staff.

我完全沒有想到自己最后竟會在這里供職。

2. rake in

輕易賺取，大撈(一筆錢)

eg. The privatisation allowed companies to rake in huge profits.

私有化使許多公司大賺了一筆。

eg. Bull market makes many investors rake in much money.

股市多頭讓許多投資客大賺一筆。

參考答案：

1、have been opening 2、have been moving

3、concentrated 4、are centered