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1. At least four people are dead and there is damage in 19 Massachusetts communities after tornadoes1 ripped through Wednesday. In Springfield, police are going door to door this morning, making sure no one is trapped in rubble2. Governor Deval Patrick has declared a state of emergency.

 

2. Cities in central South Dakota may be hit with flooding as excess water is released from dams on the Missouri River. The governor has urged some people in Pierre, Fort Pierre, and Dakota Dunes3 to evacuate4. Officials say flooding in the northern Plains could stretch into July.

 

3. Mitt5 Romney plans to announce today that he's running for president in 2012. The Republican says he's positioned to defeat the incumbent6 Democratic president and turn around the country. Romney says Barack Obama has failed America.

 

4. And more than 40 red pandas have moved into their new home in southwest China. The Pu'er National Park in China's Yunnan Province is a new habitat. Officials hope that in time the park will be home to more than 100 of the endangered red pandas.


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1 tornadoes d428421c5237427db20a5bcb22937389     
n.龙卷风，旋风( tornado的名词复数 )
参考例句：
  • Tornadoes, severe earthquakes, and plagues create wide spread havoc. 龙卷风、大地震和瘟疫成普遍的毁坏。 来自互联网
  • Meteorologists are at odds over the working of tornadoes. 气象学者对龙卷风的运动方式看法不一。 来自互联网
2 rubble 8XjxP     
n.（一堆）碎石，瓦砾
参考例句：
  • After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后，花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
  • After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。
3 dunes 8a48dcdac1abf28807833e2947184dd4     
沙丘( dune的名词复数 )
参考例句：
  • The boy galloped over the dunes barefoot. 那男孩光着脚在沙丘间飞跑。
  • Dragging the fully laden boat across the sand dunes was no mean feat. 将满载货物的船拖过沙丘是一件了不起的事。
4 evacuate ai1zL     
v.遣送；搬空；抽出；排泄；大(小)便
参考例句：
  • We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵！
  • They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。
5 mitt Znszwo     
n.棒球手套，拳击手套，无指手套；vt.铐住，握手
参考例句：
  • I gave him a baseball mitt for his birthday.为祝贺他的生日，我送给他一只棒球手套。
  • Tom squeezed a mitt and a glove into the bag.汤姆把棒球手套和手套都塞进袋子里。
6 incumbent wbmzy     
adj.成为责任的，有义务的；现任的，在职的
参考例句：
  • He defeated the incumbent governor by a large plurality.他以压倒多数票击败了现任州长。
  • It is incumbent upon you to warn them.你有责任警告他们。

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