Spot-Dictation

When Americans think about hunger, we usually think in terms of mass-starvation in far-away countries, but hunger too often lurks in our backyards. In 2006, 35.1million people, including 12.4million children in the United States did not have access to enough food for an active healthy life. Some of these individuals relied on emergency food sources and some experienced hunger.

Although most people think of hungry people and homeless people as the same, the problem of hunger reaches far beyond homelessness. While the number of people being hungry or at the risk of hunger may be surprising, it is the faces of those hungry individuals that would probably most shock you. The face of hunger is the older couple who has worked hard for their entire lives, only to find their savings wiped out by unavoidable medical bills, or a single mother who has to choose whether the salary from her minimum wage job will go to buy food or pay rent, or a child who struggles to concentrate on his schoolwork because his family couldn’t afford dinner the night before.

At December 2006 survey estimated that 48 percent of those requesting emergency food assistance, were either children or their parents. Children are twice as likely to live in households where someone experiences hunger and food insecurity than adults. One in ten adults compared to one in five children live in households where someone suffers from hunger and some food insecurity. Child poverty is more wide spread in the United States than in any other industrialized country. At the same time, the US government spends less than any industrialized country to pull its children out of poverty. We have long known that the minds and bodies of small children need adequate food to develop properly. But science is just beginning to understand the full extent of this relationship. As late as the 1980s, conventional wisdom held that only the most severe forms of malnutrition actually alter brain development. The latest empirical evidence however shows that even relatively mild under-nutrition produces cognitive impairments in children which can last a life time.

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1）In our own backyard?????? in our own bkyd or backY

2）12.4 million??? 12.4 M

3）some experienced hunger??? sm x hunger

4）Far beyond homelessness????? far bey homeX

5）at the risk of hunger?????? at th rk of hg

6）most shock you?????? +3 shk u

7）Older couple???????? older cp

8）Wiped out by unavoidable medical bills??? wp out by unavd(b) mdc bl

9）Her minimum wage job?????????????? her min?? wg?? job

10）Concentrate on his school work????????? conctr on his schl wk

11）48% of

12）Are twice as likely??????? r twi as lkly

13）One in ten adults??? 1 in 10 adt

14）Or food insecurity??????? or fd insec(y)

15）Any other industrialized country?? any oth inds ctr

16）Pull its children out of poverty???? pl its chd out of pv(y)

17）Minds and bodies????? minds n bds

18）To develop properly????? to devp prp

19）Most severe forms of malnutrition? +3 sevr fm of malnutri(n)

20）Produces cognitive impairments?? prdc cgn(v) impair~

本篇文章是關(guān)于食品短缺及食品安全類的話題，因?yàn)楫吘?8年加沙地帶食品短缺和亞洲含三聚氰胺牛奶事件影響很大。但是相關(guān)詞匯不難，難詞如melamine等并沒(méi)有考到，因?yàn)檫@部分重點(diǎn)在于速記而不在詞匯。只有最后兩個(gè) malnutrition 和 impairment 稍有難度。重點(diǎn)在于對(duì)速記的熟練使用。在新東方課堂上和考前串講中列舉的高頻詞多有考到。如and, you, most, experience, industrial, 等，其他詞匯大部分為對(duì)“音節(jié)法”和“頭尾法”這兩大基本方法的靈活應(yīng)用。所以這部分題的技巧在于對(duì)考試高頻詞（通常為非常熟悉詞）的縮寫(xiě)。我在新東方09年新版的《高級(jí)口譯考試筆試備考精要》一書(shū)中，對(duì)第一部分Spot Dictation的幾種考試必備的速記法的詳盡詮釋，可供大家參考。

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