Instructions
隱藏性文字聽力練習
What are Hidden Word exercises?
什麼是隱藏性文字練習？
Hidden word exercises are multiple-choice exercises designed to help you listen to fluent spoken English. In particular, they will help you to notice the little words that are often spoken very quickly and quietly in fast speech.
這裡的隱藏性文字練習是一項選擇題練習，為的是要幫你聽懂一般英國人所說的話。尤其是要幫你聽懂在話說得快了以後，就胡圇吞的那些部份。
How do they work?
怎麼做這個練習？
You hear a sentence or short text, and can listen as often as you like.
你先聽一個句子，或一段短文，想聽多少次都可以。
You see four words; only one of the four words was used in the sentence. Choose that word
and click on it. If you are right you see the whole sentence with the word you chose highlighted.
你會看到四個選項，但只有一項是曾經用在剛剛聽過的句子裡，選這個字，按一下前面的鈕。如果選對了，就可以看到整個句子，你也會看到你剛選的字會以別的顏色出現。
What if you are wrong? The other three words are all similar to sound sequences in the original sentence. If you did not understand the whole sentence, you may have though that you "heard" one of these words. If you click on one, you will see the actual words that were spoken, and now you can try again to find the correct word.
如果選錯了怎麼辦？因為所有其他選項在整個句子裡，聽起來都和正確的差不多，要是聽不懂整個句子，你就可能以為聽到是其他選項，如果錯選了這些，你會看到系統回應「不對」，而你錯選的字在原來句子裡所代表的意思，也會一併出現。
The exercise will be very easy if you understand the meaning of what you hear. If you
understand the whole sentence, you will be able to "see it" in your mind and can pick out the right word of the four. If, however, you did not understand the sentence completely, or if the whole sentence was a blur of sound, then you will have heard the sounds of all four words and will have to make a guess.
如果你聽得懂你聽到的，這個練習對你就非常簡單。如果聽得懂整個句子，你便能在腦海中「看到」這些字，然後直接就可四選一。但如果完全聽不懂，或者，所聽到的句子像是胡圇吞棗一樣說的，你就只得用猜的了。
If you have guessed wrong, listen to the sentence and try to work out why it was difficult. Was it because there was an important word which was new to you? Or was it because you did not recognise some short common words when they were spoken quickly and run together?
如果真的猜錯了，請再把句子仔細聽過，弄清楚問題在哪裡，是不是某個重要的字是生字？還是你沒弄清楚某個常見的字，在說快了以後的習慣說法？
An example
例子
Take this sentence:
例如這個句子：
I wouldn't do that if I were you.
我要是你，我才不會這樣做。
In the real exercise you will not be able to read the sentence, but you can listen to it by clicking the Play button below:
在練習裡，你是看不到這個句子的文字的，但你可以按下面的鈕反復聽它。
You also see these four words:
你會看到這些字在四個選項裡：
wood
tiff
fire
you
The word you occurred in the sentence. If you click on it you will see:
you 這個字曾出現在句子裡，如果你按了它，你會看見：
CORRECT: I wouldn't do that if I were you.
正確：I wouldn't do that if I were you.
If you click on the other words you will get feedback like this:
但如果你選了其他字，你會看到系統回應這些：
wood NO: ... wouldn't ...
wood 不對：... wouldn't ...
tiff NO: ... that if ...
tiff 不對： ... that if ...
fire NO: ... if I were ...
fire 不對： ... if I were ...
Now try the exercises. There are about ten sentences
好，可以開始了，這裡大約有十題練習題。