精听建议：

　　先完整地把一条新闻听一到三遍，争取掌握大意。然后，一句一句精听，力争每句话都听明白。遇到实在不懂的地方，再听写。

　　下面的文本材料中空缺部分里面要填的词都很简单，不过是一些值得注意的连读或者典型的美式发音哦，有些语速比较快。试试看，你能不能全部写对？

　　（参考文本，欢迎指出错误^^）

　　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)