NPR邊聽(tīng)邊練57:紐約新年慶祝活動(dòng)
一、泛聽(tīng)建議：
1、完整聽(tīng)一遍，掌握大意。
2、繼續(xù)聽(tīng)，特別注意關(guān)鍵信息。遇到相似的詞，寫下來(lái)。
3、復(fù)述新聞。
Close to a million people show up each year for New Year's Eve celebrations in Times Square and organizers say more than a billion people around the world _1_ watch the festivities on television and on the Web.
As NPR's Margot Adler reports, planning for this night is a year round job and the days before the event _2_ tests. Testing the ball-drop, that makes sense, given some 32,000 LED lights. But many of the tests are fun and silly, like the confetti test. Tonight, confetti will _3_ seven buildings. On Saturday, there was a test with the media in tow.
Jeffrey Straus, of Countdown Entertainment, and Allison Hagendorf, a broadcast personality and host of this year's event, dropped confetti from an eighth floor window onto Times Square, over and over. Three, two, one, Happy New Year.Three, two, one, woo.
Whoa, beautiful. Beautiful, I _4_ my fluffing there. You see it _5_ perfectly.Now, this is taking place December 29th. And the cynic might say,Why wouldn't the confetti float?All this week, people have been visiting this building, One Times Square, to write their wishes on pieces of confetti. Those wishes _6_ with the regular confetti.So, if you're in Time Square you see all of these peoples' wishes falling down on you from the sky. And people actually _7_ and save them.
I watched Tracy Baggins(ph) write two wishes on a piece of confetti. I guess my first thought would be world peace and actually authentic love.The other thing tourists do here is get their pictures take in front of a big replica of The Time Square Ball. Wilbur Tune(ph), who works for the organizers, is taking pictures of each family group with their own camera or cell phone. And he's totally hamming it up as if they were models on a runway.
詞匯解析：
1、confetti . (婚禮、狂歡節(jié)中拋撒的)五彩紙屑;(舊時(shí)狂歡節(jié)或慶祝場(chǎng)合拋撒的)糖果
2、Countdown . 倒數(shù)計(jì)秒
3、cynic . 憤世嫉俗者;犬儒學(xué)派的人adj. 犬儒學(xué)派的
4、replica . 復(fù)制品，復(fù)制物
1、are expected to 2、are filled with 3、be dropped from 4、take pride in
5、floated 6、get mixed in 7、pick them up
