美联社新闻一分钟 2006-07-11

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1. A four-storey building on the East Side of Manhattan collapsed¹ after a thunderous explosion this morning. At least 15 people were injured, including 10 firefighters. Investigators² say the blast may have been caused by a suicidal doctor who lived in the building.

2. On May 10th, 2005 Northwest Airlines Flight 1495 bumped Northwest Airbus A319 as it was taxiing to the gate. One passenger, four crew members and two ground employees were injured. The plane was traveling about 15 miles an hour.

3. The jury selection is underway in the Florida case of a man accused of kidnapping, raping³ and murdering 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford. A former neighbor and convicted sex offender⁴ John Couey allegedly buried the girl alive in garbage bags in March of 2005.

4. The president of Poland appointed his identical twin brother as the new prime minister during a ceremony at the presidential palace in the capital Warsaw. When they shook hands, they looked almost indistinguishable. Good thing, one was wearing a grey suit, and the other a black one.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. -storey : comb
-storey is used after numbers to form adjectives that indicate that a building has a particular number of floors or levels.

2. East Side : noun
A section of New York City on Manhattan Island east of Fifth Avenue. The northern part, approximately between 57th Street and 96th Street, is also known as the Upper East Side and includes many fashionable shops and residences. The Lower East Side, south of 14th Street, was long a home to immigrants from eastern Europe.

3. thunderous : adj
If you describe a noise as thunderous, you mean that it is very loud and deep.
= deafening

4. bump : verb
If you bump into something or someone, you accidentally hit them while you are moving.

5. taxi : verb
When an aircraft taxis along the ground, or when a pilot taxis a plane somewhere, it moves slowly along the ground.

6. jury selection : noun
the means by which a jury is chosen, with a panel of potential jurors called, questioning of the jury by the judge and attorneys (voir dire), dismissal for cause, peremptory⁵ challenges by the attorneys without stating a cause, and finally impanelling of the jury.

7. under way : adj
also underway. If an activity is under way, it has already started. If an activity gets under way, it starts.

8. indistinguishable : adj
If one thing is indistinguishable from another, the two things are so similar that it is difficult to know which is which.