NPR边听边练43:那个雪天,我的父亲
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^^)
Any snowfall which brings traffic to a ___1___ and closes schools takes me back to one particular storm in my youth on the ___2___ of Lake Erie. On that day, schools and stores were closed because of the weather. What ___3___ for me is a six-block walk I took with my father from our house to the post office. He bought me stamps for my recently started stamp collection. I early had a wild assortment of ___4___ stamps from around the world. He bought me brand new stamps. I can ___5___ in my mind, walking on snow-covered sidewalks in the streets. It was unusual to be going for a walk with my father on a weekday and so close to home. In the following years I never talked about that walk with him. I never even thought about it until it appeared to me about a decade ago. A winter memory now return to the forefront.
参考答案：
1. stand-still
2. shores
3. resonates
4. cancelled
5. retrace the route
