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

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，歡迎指出錯誤^^）
This winter will bring with it some sticker shock. Economists say heating your home could cost almost 50% more than ____(1)___. A lot of that extra cost is due to hurricanes Katrina and Rita which wrecked many oil and gas rigs and pipelines in the Gulf of Mexico. The cost of consumer goods from shampoo to auto tires ____(2)____. Even the air could get dirtier. NPR's Christopher Joyce has more on the ongoing hurricane effect. This winter may be rough for Dorothy Tucker in Mannford Massachusetts. She is an 83-year-old retired heath worker on the fixed income. The hurricanes ___(3)___ her already high fuel prices even higher. Tucker ___(4)___ to an energy sub-committee in Congress, where democrat Edward Mackey in Massachusetts asked she how she managed. " Where do you get the extra money for what could wide up? ___(5)___ an extra eight hundred or a thousand dollars?" "Nobody knows when I don't eat. And a lot of people that have my income, we are proud we don't tell".