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Dear all: 上次作业认真做了吗？为了让大家放松下，我们给各位换一下口味，试试下面这篇有关口音有趣的文章吧~~大家先不要看文本,把听到的内容写出来再与文本对照,可以用来做复述: This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Steven Weinberger is the director of linguistics in the English Department at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Professor Weinberger says students in his beginning phonetics class are mostly interested in teaching English as a second language. They wanted to study how non-native speakers pronounce different sounds. STEVEN WEINBERGER: So we sent the students out to record non-native speakers, and we compared those speakers to each other and to native speakers of English. Professor Weinberger wrote a paragraph for all of the speakers to read. The paragraph uses common words but contains almost all of the sounds used in English. Here is that sixty-nine-word paragraph read by our own Bob Doughty: BOB DOUGHTY: “Please call Stella. Ask her to bring these things with her from the store: Six spoons of fresh snow peas, five thick slabs of blue cheese, and maybe a snack for her brother Bob. We also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids. She can scoop these things into three red bags, and we will go meet her Wednesday at the train station.” In nineteen ninety-nine, Professor Weinberger put the recordings online. The Speech Accent Archive is for anyone who wants to compare and analyze the accents of different English speakers. For example, here is a thirty-two-year-old Iraqi man: IRAQI MAN: “Please call Stella. Ask her to bring these things with her from the store.” And here is a twenty-three-year-old woman from Eritrea: ERITREAN WOMAN: “Six spoons of fresh snow peas, five thick slabs of blue cheese, and maybe a snack for her brother Bob.” Some people think the archive would be better if it included natural speech -- people talking freely, not just reading the same words. Professor Weinberger recognizes the strengths and weaknesses of his site. STEVEN WEINBERGER: “The biggest plus, of course, is that it is