【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^^）

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___.