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 1. Attorneys for a Texas nurse accused of fatally shooting a mother and speeding away with the dying woman's newborn son say they plan to evaluate her mental state. Lawyers for Verna McClain say she was confused, visibly upset and mumbling1 to them during a brief court hearing Thursday which was delayed until next week. 

 
 
 
2. A team of police officers and FBI agents began tearing apart a New York City basement. It is part of a decades-old investigation2 into the disappearance3 of 6-year-old Etan Patz. Etan vanished without a trace in 1979 after leaving his family's Manhattan apartment for a short walk to catch a school bus.
 
 
 
3. Republicans have pushed an election-year, 46-billion-dollar tax cut for most employers through a sharply divided House. The bill will go nowhere in the Democratic-controlled Senate, and the White House says President Barack Obama would veto it anyway.
 
 
 
4. And NASA has turned space shuttle Discovery over to the Smithsonian Institution, which is putting it on display at the National Air and Space Museum annex4 near Dulles Airport in Virginia. Discovery will be displayed as if it just landed with its large payload bay doors closed.

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1 mumbling 13967dedfacea8f03be56b40a8995491     
含糊地说某事，叽咕，咕哝( mumble的现在分词 )
参考例句：
  • I could hear him mumbling to himself. 我听到他在喃喃自语。
  • He was still mumbling something about hospitals at the end of the party when he slipped on a piece of ice and broke his left leg. 宴会结束时，他仍在咕哝着医院里的事。说着说着，他在一块冰上滑倒，跌断了左腿。
2 investigation MRKzq     
n.调查，调查研究
参考例句：
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
3 disappearance ouEx5     
n.消失，消散，失踪
参考例句：
  • He was hard put to it to explain her disappearance.他难以说明她为什么不见了。
  • Her disappearance gave rise to the wildest rumours.她失踪一事引起了各种流言蜚语。
4 annex HwzzC     
vt.兼并，吞并；n.附属建筑物
参考例句：
  • It plans to annex an England company in order to enlarge the market.它计划兼并一家英国公司以扩大市场。
  • The annex has been built on to the main building.主楼配建有附属的建筑物。

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