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听力文本如下：
Shawn says that Chris will “wrap things up” with the team's recommendations.
“To wrap (wrap) things up” has the same meaning as “to conclude”: to end a presentation or a project, or to finish something.
In other words, Chris is going to end the presentation by talking about the team's recommendations.
We're going to “wrap things up” in this lesson by listening to the informal meeting at a native rate of speech.
Shawn asks the participants to “please feel free to interrupt” him during the presentation if they have any questions.
When we tell someone to “please feel free” to do something, it's a polite way to ask someone to please do something, or to let them know that it's okay to do something.
For example, you might say to someone, “Please feel free to call me if you have questions” - it's okay for you to call me.
The verb “interrupt” (interrupt) means to say or do something while another person is talking so that the other person has to stop speaking.
It's usually very rude (not polite) to interrupt another person, but in this case Shawn is asking people to “please feel free to interrupt” him, meaning that they should ask their questions whenever they have them, not waiting for him to stop speaking first.
Let's listen to Shawn again as he speaks at a faster, native rate.
Shawn: All right, let me start by saying thanks to all of you for your interest in this presentation.
Does everyone have the printed handouts?
Great. Let's start by taking a look at what we're going to cover today.
As you can see in this outline here, we'll start off by talking about how our market share has been falling over the past year, and the reasons why.
After that, Hannah's going to tell you about the focus groups she conducted and what we can learn from them.
She'll also share her ideas about who our target market really should be.
We'll finish off with Chris talking about how his team has been able to change our product so that it has more appeal to our customers.
Then he'll wrap things up with our team's recommendations.
Any questions so far? If you have questions later on during the presentation, please feel free to interrupt me at any time.
I hope this lesson has helped you understand how to begin a presentation in formal and informal meetings in English.
Our next lesson, number four, is about giving the actual formal and informal presentations in English.
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