Listening
Comprehension: Get familiar with the words or phrases given below, and
then listen to the tape until you can complete the talk.
Topic:
Safeguarding newborns
Category:
News
热身词语
trial:试验,尝试
the Garden State:美国新泽西州的昵称
anonymous:匿名的
groundwork:基础,底子
legislation:立法
headline: (报纸的)通栏大标题
dumpster:(大型金属制)垃圾箱
infant:婴儿
Announcer: A ___________________that aims
to ________________ could soon be ______________ the Garden State. It
would ____parents to __________ leave their children at hospitals
_____________________.
Reporter: Charlotte Vander Vaughn, the
_________ of the Assembly Health Committee, is ________________________
for possible ___________ to create a _______________ here in Jersey.
Vander Vaughn: We're certainly not trying
to _________ people to _______ babies, but we are trying to
_________________________________ that are going to be
_____________________.
Reporter: Two Burgon County ____ made
national _________ a few years ago when they
______________________________. The _____ was found ____. The father was
_______ from ____ earlier this week. David Matthaw, News Jersey Burgon
County.
Topic:
Beating your children
Category:
Phone-in
热身词语
spank:打屁股(惩罚)
slap:揍,用手掌拍打
literally:严格说来,照字面说
get out of hand:失去控制
rear end:=butt臀部,屁股
discipline:规矩,纪律
Caller: I have ____ children, all of them
are different, I am not going to be a parent that's going to ______ here
and ___ and say, I have never __________. Sometimes somebody
______________________ to say, it's not ___________ behavior. And I think,
_______________ right now is a society full of children who think they can
get whatever they want, whenever they want.
Presenter: Oh, tell me about it. You…
Caller: If you don't get it, we'll talk to
you about it.
Presenter: How many times, Diane, have you
been in a store, and you'd see kids running amok. And the parents seem
______ afraid to ______ their own children.
Caller: I have friends that go to the store
and go food shopping and _______________________. No, we don't
_____________. We _______ what we need, not for what you want. And
children should know there are certain times…again, I have three
children, I don't say I sit here and beat them, but when somebody
_____________, and if we _____________________ to say, hey, reality here,
this isn't…and that's ________! If you're telling a parent they can't do
that, that's taking away teaching a child discipline. They need to know
there's rules in life.
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