NPR邊聽邊練27:左撇子蝸牛和螃蟹

【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聽力提高，致力于不斷開闊眼界和深入了解美國觀點。

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^^)

And he notice something, the crabs that like to crash and eat snails tend to have powerful right claws. That reminded Diedo who’s also a righty of sports “Having played sports myself as a child, remember there is, you know, this thing of ___1___. But I thought we’ll trying to look at this a little bit more.” What sports did you play? “I played baseball.” How did you like ___2___ left-handed pitchers? “ I wasn’t very good at it.” So he wondered do right-handed crabs have a problem when facing a left-handed snail. To find out first he went back in time, his team___3___ nearly two thousand fossil snail shells most were 3 or 4 million years old, and about half were lefty species and half righties. Then the researchers looked at every shell. They wanna to see did ancient crabs ___4___the right-handed snails or the lefties. What they found is that the right-handed shells had far more scars meaning far more crab attacks. “So it’s kind of like being a detective almost when you ___5___, each shell tells a story to me.”

參考答案：

1.left-handed advantage

2.hitting against

3.rounded up

4.prefer to attack

5.go back into the past