NPR邊聽邊練37:尋找心靈里的那一片凈土

【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(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?

(參考文本，歡迎指出錯誤^^)

I believe in cultivating hidden talents, buried and unrelated to what we do for a living.In ordinary life, I'm a civil engineer. I make a satisfying, comfortable living working quietly in my cubicle. But in my other life, I am a pianist, bringing to life with my own hands the genius of Bach, Mozart and Chopin.While __1__my engineering degree, I worked as a waitress in the dining hall of a retirement community. One day during a break, I discovered a piano in a meeting room. I sat down to play a few Bach Two-Part Inventions. Those crisp, driving rhythms and harmonics __2__into the hallways. Residents, numb from ceaseless easy-listening radio, tentatively peeked in, __3__ sat to listen.Disbelieving, they saw plain, old, invisible Mel, the lunch waitress."She plays the piano!" "Where did you study?" "How long have you played?" "Can you play Rachmaninoff?"They no longer wanted me to quickly and quietly disappear from their dining tables. "Mel, wait a minute. Who do you think was better, Gould or Horowitz?" I answered "Gould," and __4__.

參考答案：

1 earning

2 flew out

3 then

4 a raging debate ensued