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1.President Barack Obama is using this tax-filing day to say he wants to get the dread1 out of deadline day with “a simpler tax code.” "For too long we've seen taxes used as a wedge to scare people into supporting policies that actually increased the burden on working people instead of helping2 them live their dreams. That has to change."

2.Dozens of young women took to the streets of Kabul to protest an Afghan law that lets husbands demand sex from their wives. About 800 counter-protestors showed up. Some of the women were pelted3 with small stones.

3.A close call at a Phoenix4 elementary school. The pilot of a small plane made an emergency landing on the playground just feet from a jungle gym and nearby classrooms. The pilot walked away, no one on the ground was hurt.

4.Follow that boat. A teenager pulling a boat behind his truck led police officers in a high-speed chase in Kingston, Tennessee. During the entire chase, another man was lying down in the boat. The teen's been charged with DUI.

 


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1 dread Ekpz8     
vt.担忧，忧虑；惧怕，不敢；n.担忧，畏惧
参考例句：
  • We all dread to think what will happen if the company closes.我们都不敢去想一旦公司关门我们该怎么办。
  • Her heart was relieved of its blankest dread.她极度恐惧的心理消除了。
2 helping 2rGzDc     
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的
参考例句：
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
3 pelted 06668f3db8b57fcc7cffd5559df5ec21     
（连续地）投掷( pelt的过去式和过去分词 )； 连续抨击； 攻击； 剥去…的皮
参考例句：
  • The children pelted him with snowballs. 孩子们向他投掷雪球。
  • The rain pelted down. 天下着大雨。
4 phoenix 7Njxf     
n.凤凰，长生(不死)鸟；引申为重生
参考例句：
  • The airline rose like a phoenix from the ashes.这家航空公司又起死回生了。
  • The phoenix worship of China is fetish worship not totem adoration.中国凤崇拜是灵物崇拜而非图腾崇拜。

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