【NPR边听边练】致力于提供新鲜有趣、饶有意味的时讯资料，致力于通过精听的方式促进听力提高，致力于不断开阔眼界和深入了解美国观点。

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^^)

To keep those gadgets going, the military is ___1___ methanol. Just a teacup of methanol can hold ___2___ energy: four or five times more than a battery of the same size and weight. Bolton works Ft. Belvoir near Washington, D.C., at his lab he ___3___ one methanol power pack he's been testing. It's a device size of an office phone-square and green. He___4___ plastic bottle of methanol “we screwed that onto the system. Then it has a simple little on-and-off switch. You hear some noise on ___5___, it's basically a little chemical plant."

答案：

1.taking a close look at

2.a huge amount of

3.shows off

4. picks up a

5.start up