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 1. Canada’s Prime Minister says Wednesday’s shooting inside Parliament and the fatal shooting of a soldier at a war memorial nearby are an act of terrorism. The gunman, 32-year-old Michael Zehaf Bibeau was shot and killed inside parliament by a sergeant1 at arms. 

 
2. President Barack Obama says he is more optimistic about the Ebola situation in the US. Now that two Dallas nurses diagnosed with the disease are doing better.
 
3. The University of North Carolina is cracking down on 9 employees after an investigation2 found thousands of students, nearly half of the athletes, took classes they didn’t have to show up for, and received inflated3 grades for research papers.
 
4. More than 500 clowns from across Latin American staged a laughter session in Mexico City to promote world peace. They tried to set a record by laughing nonstop for 15 minutes. But the laugh stopped, coming a little short of that.

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1 sergeant REQzz     
n.警官，中士
参考例句：
  • His elder brother is a sergeant.他哥哥是个警官。
  • How many stripes are there on the sleeve of a sergeant?陆军中士的袖子上有多少条纹？
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 inflated Mqwz2K     
adj.（价格）飞涨的；（通货）膨胀的；言过其实的；充了气的v.使充气（于轮胎、气球等）( inflate的过去式和过去分词 )；（使）膨胀；（使）通货膨胀；物价上涨
参考例句：
  • He has an inflated sense of his own importance. 他自视过高。
  • They all seem to take an inflated view of their collective identity. 他们对自己的集体身份似乎都持有一种夸大的看法。 来自《简明英汉词典》

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