NPR邊聽邊練36:禽流感蔓延的禍首是水鳥嗎？

【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^^)

Asian bird flu is turning up in Europe. Mute swans killed by the virus have been found in Greece, Italy, Austria, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Germany. Dead swans found in Denmark are still being tested. ___1___ say these discoveries show that waterfowl are moving this virus around. Ornithologists say that is far from proven. NPR's John Nielsen reports.

Migrating waterfowl, often rest at the ___2___ at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. Today ___3___ mallards does most of the ___4___ and quacking. Peter Marra, a migration expert with the zoo, says it's long been known that ducks, swans and geese can carry the bird flu virus.

"About 30 percent of ducks like these might be carrying some form of low pathogenic avian influenza, which doesn't hurt them or other ducks or animals that they might ___5___." Marra says it used to be assumed that the virulent H5N1 virus killed migrating waterfowl before they could go anywhere, but that assumption has taken some hits in recent months.

參考答案：

1. Health officials

2. duck pond

3. a crowd of

4. humphings

5. interact with