2018-01-14

        Her ostentation (卖弄)sickens me --I mean, look at that stupid hat. I was thinking there was a cat on her head, it was so hilarious (滑稽的)of her.

针对昨天的问题：

1. Item 2: 国外称习一般也是用President，比如What Motivates Chinese President Xi Jinping's Anti-Corruption Drive?至于chairman，有定义是这样：The chairman (also chairperson, chairwoman or chair) is the highest officer of an organized group such as a board, a committee, or a deliberative assembly.

2. Item 4 : 填写的应该是step down，再听听？

3. Item 7: 有空再听听这个。

Unit 7 Section B

Senate 参议院；上议院

House of Representatives 众议院

        今天就听了Item1,基本的感受是这样的，根据我现在的情况，在听前两遍的时候，基本获得的信息是某个女性将会成为US的首个woman speaker, 在总统就职后这个女性将会发生某种变化。这就是这条新闻的总体，分成了两部分。然后继续听三四遍，获得的信息包括House of Representatives ,confirm,second in line to presidency。在这以后的几遍，我就基本能将句子给复述一遍，当然还有部分的细节没理解。

        Demorats in the House of Representatives have unanimously confirmed Nancy Pelosi as United States first woman speaker. Mrs Pleosi would be (the?)second in line to presidency after vice President Dick Cheney went to take office in January. 

        注意的连读：would be ,after vice.