雅思听力提分训练素材：特殊的圣诞节

本期雅思听力提分训练素材：我们仿佛回家了：流离失所的波多黎各人庆祝圣诞节的传统帕拉达(We Feel Like Home': Displaced Puerto Ricans Celebrate Traditional Christmas Parranda)。本听力素材来自NPR，NPR新闻是美国的国家公共广播，纯公益，所以内容更加去纯粹，直击心灵。可作为雅思听力泛听训练的日常素材，坚持长期听，除了锻炼英语听力，还能积累雅思听力词汇。

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雅思听力泛听内容原文：We Feel Like Home': Displaced Puerto Ricans Celebrate Traditional Christmas Parranda

RAY SUAREZ, HOST:

It's the Christmas season, And in Puerto Rico, that's a really big 12-day deal. For the tens of thousands of people who've been forced to leave the island after Hurricane Maria, that means celebrating Christmas in an unfamiliar place. Ryan Caron King from member station WNPR in Hartford, Conn., has the story of how a Puerto Rican community in Hartford welcomed new arrivals with an island holiday tradition to remind them of home.

这是圣诞节，而在波多黎各，这真是一个大12天的交易。对于在玛丽亚飓风过后被迫离开小岛的数万人来说，这意味着在一个陌生的地方庆祝圣诞节。Ryan Caron King从哈特福德、Conn. wnpr成员站，有在哈特福德的波多黎各人社区欢迎新来的一个海岛传统节日提醒他们关于家的故事。

UNIDENTIFIED SINGERS: (Singing in Spanish).

RYAN CARON KING, BYLINE: Merely Torres-Garcia has been living in a hotel room with her husband and two kids after losing part of her house in Puerto Rico to Hurricane Maria. She says spending the Christmas season in the northeastern cold has been hard for her family. But last night in the noisy atrium of Hartford City Hall, it felt a little bit like Christmas on the island.

MERELY TORRES-GARCIA: My kids are happy. We feel like home in here right now.

KING: Torres-Garcia was at a Christmas celebration called the parranda, where members of Hartford's Puerto Rican community greeted families displaced by the storm with a musical parade and a hot meal.

UNIDENTIFIED SINGERS: (Singing in Spanish).

KING: A traditional Puerto Rican parranda is where carolers go from one house to the next, sharing food, drinks and song late into the night. The celebration was held inside because Hartford is cold. It even snowed Saturday night. But Torres-Garcia says the parranda in Hartford made her proud to be Puerto Rican.

TORRES-GARCIA: It's part of us, what we are. We are loud, and we like to dance, and we like to sing, and we like to do all that stuff. And that only means Puerto Rico

KING: Carmen Cotto grew up in Hartford and had recently moved to the island before the hurricane flooded her house. She says the event started the Christmas season for families who have focused more on recovering from the hurricane.

CARMEN COTTO: Christmas hasn't really started for many, and this was like our kickoff for Christmas.

KING: Cotto's father, Angel Luis, also came to live on the mainland after the storm.

He says he enjoyed the night's festivities, but he wants to go home as soon as he can.

ANGEL LUIS COTTO: It's different, different, different. It's nice over here, but there's no place like Puerto Rico.

KING: Cotto says he was sad during the parranda, as he thought about all the people still suffering on the island. But he says, at the same time, he was also happy because this was the first time they had gotten to celebrate since the storm.

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)

KING: For NPR News, I'm Ryan Caron King in Hartford.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "DE PARRANDA EN PUERTO RICO")

ODILIO GONZALEZ: (Singing in Spanish).

雅思听力高频词汇

unfamiliar 陌生的

suffering 受苦的

mainland 大陆

feel like 感觉就像

community 社区

celebrate 庆祝

hurricane 热带风暴

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