2008-7-28听写小结

Schools Look to Save Money With Four-Day Week(1/2)

DICTATION:

As we said last week, American schools are looking for ways to save money on bus transportation because of high fuel prices. More children may have to walk, ride their bikes or find other ways to get to school. But, as another reflacted effect of the high prices, they may not have to go to school as often. Some schools, especially in the rural areas, are changing to a four-day-week. That means longer days instead of the traditional Monday through Friday schedule. Beginning in the fall, students in the Maccray school district in Minnesota will be in school Turthday Tuesday through Friday. Each school day will be 65 minutes longer. Superintendent Greg Schmidt says the district excepts to save about 65 thousand dollars a year in transportation costs. The district texted has about 7 hundred students living in an area of 9 hundred squire square kilometers. State officials have proved approved the plan for three years. They may change their mind before then if learning suffers. In Custer, sufft coder South Dakota, students have then been going to school Monday through Tthirday Thursday since 1995. Super intenden Superintendent Tim Creal says the change has saved at least estimated one million dollars over just the past eight years.

NEW WORDS:

rural 乡下的、田园的 superintendent 管理人 square 正方形、广场 estimate 估计

OLD WORDS:

schedule Tuesday Thursday

TRANSLATION:

接着我们上周的话题，由于高油价美国学校正在想办法节省校车运输的成本。更多的孩子只能步行，骑自行车或者通过其它方式去上学。但是，高油价的另一个影响，就是他们可能不能经常去学校了。一些学校，尤其是些乡村地区的学校正在改制为4日制。这就意味着更长的教学日取代了传统的周一到周五的时间表。从这个秋天开始，Maccray学校的明尼苏达学区将执行周二到周五的在校制度。每一个教学日的时间将延长65分钟。学校管理者Greg Schmidt说学区预期每年能省下大约6万五千美元的运输费用。这个学区有大约七百名学生住在900平方公里内的地区。国家官员用了三年时间来审核。如果学会了承受，那么在那之前他们可能会改变主意。在卡斯特，南达科塔，学生从1995年起就是周一到周四去学校。管理者Tim Cread说，在过去的近8年中，估计这项改变节省了一百万美。

GOSSIP:

暴汗，星期二和星期四不会拼……

estimate这个词前几天才听过的，可是今天还是属于新词范畴，还是不会

another effect 和district has都连读了，听不出来。沪江上听不出来也蛮多的，看来以后要多注意连读的部分了。