【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^^）

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."