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1. Israel was defending its morning raid deep into Lebanon. The prime minister told the UN secretary general it was stopping arms shipments to Hezbollah. Lebanon says it violated the ceasefire and is threatening to stop deploying1 its army to the south.

2. German authorities have arrested one suspect who allegedly tried to blow up two trains. The man is a Lebanese student suspected of planting two suitcase bombs on the trains last month. A video helped police nab the suspect. Authorities are still looking for another suspect.

3. The man who says he was with JonBenet Ramsey when she died is expected back in the US on Sunday. John Mark Karr is currently being held in Thailand. JonBenet was found the day after Christmas at her house in Colorado in 1996.

4. The Cincinnati Zoo is having a birthday party. Last weekend, Muke delivered a healthy baby boy. It's the first gorilla2 birth there since 1998. About seventy-five thousand lowland gorillas3 remain in the wild, but zoo officials say they are disappearing at a rate of a thousand a year.

WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. shipment : n-count
The act or an instance of shipping4 goods.

2. plant : verb
To set firmly in position; fix. For example: planted both feet on the ground.

3. nab : verb
To take into custody5 as a prisoner; to get hold of something moving.

4. gorilla : n-count
The largest of the anthropoid6 apes native to the forests of equatorial Africa, having a stocky body and coarse, dark brown or black hair.

5. lowland : n-count
An area of land that is low in relation to the surrounding country.

6. wild : n-count
A natural or undomesticated state. For example: returned the zoo animals to the wild; plants that grow abundantly in the wild.


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1 deploying 79c9e662a7f3c3d49ecc43f559de9424     
（尤指军事行动）使展开( deploy的现在分词 )； 施展； 部署； 有效地利用
参考例句：
  • Provides support for developing and deploying distributed, component-based applications. 为开发和部署基于组件的分布式应用程序提供支持。
  • Advertisement, publishing, repair, and install-on-demand are all available when deploying your application. 在部署应用程序时提供公布、发布、修复和即需即装功能。
2 gorilla 0yLyx     
n.大猩猩，暴徒，打手
参考例句：
  • I was awed by the huge gorilla.那只大猩猩使我惊惧。
  • A gorilla is just a speechless animal.猩猩只不过是一种不会说话的动物。
3 gorillas a04bd21e2b9b42b0d71bbb65c0c6d365     
n.大猩猩( gorilla的名词复数 )；暴徒，打手
参考例句：
  • the similitude between humans and gorillas 人类和大猩猩的相像
  • Each family of gorillas is led by a great silverbacked patriarch. 每个大星星家族都由一个魁梧的、长着银色被毛的族长带领着。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 shipping WESyg     
n.船运（发货，运输，乘船）
参考例句：
  • We struck a bargain with an American shipping firm.我们和一家美国船运公司谈成了一笔生意。
  • There's a shipping charge of ￡5 added to the price.价格之外另加五英镑运输费。
5 custody Qntzd     
n.监护，照看，羁押，拘留
参考例句：
  • He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
  • He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后，他立即被押了起来。
6 anthropoid keGyh     
adj.像人类的，类人猿的；n.类人猿；像猿的人
参考例句：
  • Man evolved from the anthropoid ape.人是从类人猿进化而来的。
  • Gorilla are the largest of the anthropoid apes native to the forests of equatorial Africa.大猩猩是栖居在赤道非洲的最大的类人猿。

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