【NPR边听边练】致力于提供新鲜有趣、饶有意味的时讯资料，致力于通过精听的方式促进听力提高，致力于不断开阔眼界和深入了解美国观点。

精听建议：

先完整地把一条新闻听一到三遍，争取掌握大意。然后，一句一句精听，力争每句话都听明白。遇到实在不懂的地方，再听写。

下面的文本材料中空缺部分里面要填的词都很简单，不过是一些值得注意的连读或者典型的美式发音哦，有些语速比较快。试试看，你能不能全部写对?

(参考文本，欢迎指出错误^^)

By Mississippi law, the casinos had been on water which means they were ___(1)___ boats attached to big hotels. But being on water also may have ___(2)___ especially vulnerable to big storms, as Katrina vividly illustrated."The casinos are devastated. You know, the damages… are just unbelievable devastation."William M. is president of a large commercial construction company that helped build some of the casinos. His office was virtually destroyed by the storms, but by this weekend ____(3)___ were back at work using a generator for power in a building literally without walls. Only now, instead of building casinos, they've got contracts for ____(4)___ some of the ___(5)___ that line Biloxi streets.

参考答案：

1.built on

2.made them

3.he and his staff

4.clean up

5.mountains of debris