NCE-III 第1课 -请大家指正

Lesson 1: A Puma at Large

Pumas are large, cat-like animals which are found in America. When reports came into London Zoo that a wild puma had been spotted forty-five miles south of London, they were not taken seriously. However, as the evidence began to accumulate, experts from the Zoo felt obliged to investigate, for the descriptions given by people who claimed to have seen the puma were extraordinarily similar.

The hunt for the puma began in a small village where a woman picking blackberries saw 'a large cat' only five yards away from her. It immediately ran away when she saw it, and experts confirmed that a puma will not attack a human being unless it is cornered. The search proved difficult, for the puma was often observed at one place in the morning and at another place twenty miles away in the evening. Wherever it went, it left behind it a trail of dead deer and small animals like rabbits. Paw prints were seen in a number of places and puma fur was found clinging to bushes. Several people complained of "cat-like noises' at night and a businessman on a fishing trip saw the puma up a tree. The experts were now fully convinced that the animal was a puma, but where had it come from? As no pumas had been reported missing from any zoo in the country, this one must have been in the possession of a private collector and somehow managed to escape. The hunt went on for several weeks, but the puma was not caught. It is disturbing to think that a dangerous wild animal is still at large in the quiet countryside.

这几天一直在读这篇PUMA，自己实在是不满意，可是实在是不能再读了，真的恶心了。我现在也想明白了，就自己目前的水平，是怎样也不可能做到真正的读好的。比如说贴的这篇文章，是我相对比较满意的，可是第一句AT LARGE里，我明显的听出了自己加了个音在T的后面。我现在觉得还是应该量话，不能用自己的感觉来判断，否则真的是一种折磨。我想以后就三天一篇，每篇保证读90遍，争取精读每一句话！请大家帮助我进步，指出您能听出的问题，我的目标也是第三册读完后就到达40分的水平！

另外，大家又什么好的跟读软件可以推荐吗？最好是那一种能看波形与时间的！谢谢！