NPR邊聽邊練303:美醫(yī)保網(wǎng)站投入運(yùn)行

以下段落是摘自新聞里的一些重要信息,并不是一個(gè)段落的聽寫?？諆?nèi)信息可在本新聞中全部找到,大家可以根據(jù)這些信息復(fù)述新聞。

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(guān)鍵信息。遇到相似的詞，寫下來(lái)。

The federal government's new health insurance website _1_ twice its usual weekday traffic as Americans try to beat the deadline to sign up for coverage begins January 1st. NPR's Scott Horsley reports some would-be users _2_ into an online waiting area.

聯(lián)邦政府新開設(shè)的政府醫(yī)保網(wǎng)站的訪問數(shù)量是平常的兩倍，因?yàn)槊绹?guó)民眾試圖趕在最終期限前登記購(gòu)買將于1月1日起生效的保險(xiǎn)。據(jù)NPR新聞的斯科特·霍斯利報(bào)道，一些潛在用戶被迫在線等候。

The Obama administration says some 375,000 people have logged onto the website by noon Monday, testing the limits of the site's new and improved capacity. As response time _3_, and error rates rose, some users were forced to wait or _4_ to supply emails so that they could come back later. White House Spokesman Jay Carney says that was by designed.

奧巴馬政府表示，截至周一中午共有37.5萬(wàn)人上網(wǎng)瀏覽，檢測(cè)網(wǎng)站剛剛改善的容量限制。由于反應(yīng)時(shí)間減慢、錯(cuò)誤率上升，一些用戶被迫等待并提供他們的郵箱地址，以便之后繼續(xù)訪問網(wǎng)站。白宮發(fā)言人杰伊·卡尼表示，這些都在計(jì)劃中。

"We absolutely anticipated that on this day in particular, we would see a surge."

“我們完全預(yù)計(jì)到了今天的特殊情況，我們知道訪問量會(huì)激增。”

The website fell short of its target of accommodating 50,000 simultaneous users, but officials say it should still meet the goal of _5_ 800,000 users per day. Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.

網(wǎng)站未能達(dá)成同時(shí)為5萬(wàn)人提供服務(wù)的目標(biāo)，但是官員表示，網(wǎng)站會(huì)完成每天登記80萬(wàn)名用戶的目標(biāo)。NPR新聞，斯科特·霍斯利華盛頓報(bào)道。

詞匯解析：

1、log onto

登錄，進(jìn)入

eg:Some risk management software will track habits, such as detecting when people log onto which workstations or when they log in on a holiday.

有些風(fēng)險(xiǎn)控制軟件可以跟蹤習(xí)慣，比如監(jiān)測(cè)人們何時(shí)登錄進(jìn)哪一臺(tái)工作站，還有他們何時(shí)在假期登錄進(jìn)系統(tǒng)。

2、simultaneous

adj. 同時(shí)的;聯(lián)立的;同時(shí)發(fā)生的

n. 同時(shí)譯員

eg:The two guns fired almost simultaneously.

兩支槍幾乎同時(shí)開火。

參考答案：

1、is seeing 2、have been pushed

3、slowed 4、asked 5、handling