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^^）

Lesson17 A Tiring Party
Mr. Harris and his wife moved to another town, and they met a lot of interesting people. They often 1 or to parties at other people's houses. So Mr. and Mrs. Harris decided to host a big party, too.
They chose a date, and then Mrs. Harris began to 2 invitations. One of the sentences in the invitation said,"Mr. and Mrs. Harris would like the pleasure of your company at the party in their residence. The time is between 6:30 to 8:30 p.m."
"That isn't very nice, is it?"Mr. Harris said. "You're telling our guests that they must go 3 . So Mrs. Harris just wrote, "The party begins at 6:30 p.m."
A lot of guests came, and they all enjoyed their time. In fact, they stayed until midnight when a policeman arrived. He said, "You must stop the party because someone has 4 ."
Mr. Harris didn't want to argue with the policeman. All the guests went home quickly. When Mr. and Mrs. Harris were alone again, she asked, "It was a surprise, wasn't it? Who complained about the noise?"
"I did," Mr. Harris answered 5 .

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