Directions: In this section you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read the second time you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from s1-s7 with the exact words you have just heard. For the blanks numbered s8-s10 you are required to fill in the issing information. For these blanks you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in our own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written. Now, listen to the passage.
听写的核心原则：精听速记
1、放第一遍录音时开始写，对于长难单词写缩略语。 Difficult – dif difficulty – dify environment – env environmental – envl especially – esp University – uni
2、符号助记法。
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President Clinton later today joins （S1）________presidents Ford, Garter and Bush at“the president's summit for America's future”（S2）________at recruiting one million volunteer tutors to provide after-school, weekend and summer reading help for up to three million children. Mr. Clinton will ask Congress this coming week for nearly three （S3） ________dollars to fund a five-year program called “America Reads”.The program would fund the （S4）_______efforts of 20 thousand reading （S5） and it would also give （S6）________ to help parents help children read by the third grade, or about age eight. During his Saturday radio （S7________, the president explained why the program is important:“We need 'America Reads' and we need it now. Studies show that if the fourth-graders fail to read well.
（S8）__________________________________________________________But 40 percent of them still can't read at a basic level.
Volunteer tutors, who provide community service in exchange for college funding, are being used in literacy and tutoring programs.
（S9）__________________________________________________The president says many of the Philadelphia summit's corporate sponsors will recruit tutors.
第一个空格里面，通过快速扫描第一句话，发现有美国总统克林顿Clinton，又有美国总统福特，卡特，布什（Ford, Garter and Bush），那么后者跟前者相比较，同学们一定可以感觉到后者为前总统，因此第一个空格应填入former或类似含义的单词。第二个空格我们看到后面有一个介词，于是能发现应当在里面填一个动词，此时就需要注意时态，单复数的问题。空格三明显是一个量词，第四个空格不好预测，第五个可以估计出来应填名词，此时应注意名词单复数的问题，第六同上，第七个空格技巧性较强，需要背景知识，同学们可以想想，美国总统一般去电台（during his radio______）干什么？此时蹦入脑海的一定是“电台演讲，演说”，于是应当是“lecture, presentation, address”等词汇。后面的长难句由于过长，很难提前预测判断，但是在短短的几十秒钟的时间里面, 能预测出来这么多的信息, 实属难能可贵.因此同学们应努力做到把前面的小知识点提前好好分析一下，定能熟练掌握听前预测这一技巧。
参考答案：
S1 former S2 aimed S3 billion S4 coordination S5 specialists S6 grants S7 address S8. They're likely to drop out of school and less likely to succeed in life. S9. The program, initiated by President Clinton, has come under criticism by Congress.
S10. Dozens of colleges and universities are prepared to send thousands of their students in support of the program
