英语专业四级听力50篇023：America’s Worst Surprise(mp3+lrc)

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[00:05.56]America's Worst Surprise
[00:12.92]December 7,1941 was one of the worst days in American history. 
[00:20.76]Nearly all Americans who are old enough to remember 
[00:24.23]that day can still remember what they were doing 
[00:28.11]at the moment they heard "the news". 
[00:31.89]The news was that America had been attacked!
[00:37.27]Shortly before 2:00 P.M., 
[00:39.75]a radio dispatch came into Washington 
[00:42.87]from Honolulu, Hawaii, "Air Raid, Pearl Harbor― This is no drill." 
[00:52.20]Japanese planes had begun an attack 
[00:54.88]on the largest American military base in the Pacific. 
[00:59.93]They first destroyed planes on the ground. 
[01:03.65]Then they bombed the ships in the harbor.
[01:08.64]No one had expected the attack. 
[01:11.68]So no one was prepared for it. 
[01:14.79]And it did not take long for the Japanese to do their damage. 
[01:20.78]When the smoke cleared, the Navy counted its losses- Eighteen ships
[01:28.20]had been sunk or badly damaged. 
[01:31.00]Nearly 150 planes had been destroyed. 
[01:36.00]More than 2,400 Americans had been killed and more than 1, 200 wounded.

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英语专业四级听力50篇023：America’s Worst Surprise(mp3+lrc)