NPR邊聽邊練18:生活在科幻世界里

【NPR邊聽邊練】致力于提供新鮮有趣、饒有意味的時(shí)訊資料，致力于通過精聽的方式促進(jìn)聽力提高，致力于不斷開闊眼界和深入了解美國觀點(diǎn)。

精聽建議：

先完整地把一條新聞聽一到三遍，爭取掌握大意。然后，一句一句精聽，力爭每句話都聽明白。遇到實(shí)在不懂的地方，再聽寫。

下面的文本材料中空缺部分里面要填的詞都很簡單，不過是一些值得注意的連讀或者典型的美式發(fā)音哦，有些語速比較快。試試看，你能不能全部寫對?

(參考文本，歡迎指出錯(cuò)誤^^)

From outside it looks just like a regular old apartment, inside it is a full-scale recreation of the Starship Enterprise. The place is strange, and so is the tale of how it came to be. “My wife left me in 1994, and I kind of___1___for a couple of years, was kind of a little bit down, a little bit depressed, and taking tranquillizers and antidepressants as a result of that traumatic experience.” To ___2___ funk, a friend loaned him a copy of Star Trek: The Next Generation technical manual. A book that documents all the details of how the fictional starship EnterpriseD was constructed. “So I just ___3___the manual and decided to like, like it did to have a go at building the transported control console.” The project that was to ___4___ his breakup misery took off ___5___.

答案：

1.lost in a way

2.pull him out of that

3.fell in love with

4. transport Tony out of

5.at warp speed (warp speed-An extremely rapid speed or state of activity)