美联社新闻一分钟 2005-10-01

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1.New York Times reporter Judith Miller¹ testifies before a grand jury, ending her silence in the investigation² into whether White House officials leaked the name of a covert³ CIA operative.

2.Sunni insurgents⁴ hit two Shiite towns in two days with brutal⁵ bombings that kill more than 110 people, apparently⁶ aiming to scare Shiites from the polls ahead of a crucial vote on the new constitution.

3.Funerals were held for two Palestinians killed when Israeli soldiers raided the Ballata refugee camp outside the West Bank city of Nablus. Five Palestinian gunmen have been slain⁷ by Israel in the West Bank in the last two days.

4.A school bus overturned on a New York expressway Friday, injuring dozens of children. Scores of emergency workers responded to the crash scene on the Major Deegan Expressway, where the bus, with 46 children and 8 adults, flipped⁹ on to its side.

5.For the first time, biologists have documented the gorillas¹⁰ in the wild, using simple tools to perform rudimentary tasks such as poking¹¹ a stick in a swampy¹² pool of water to check its depth. Until now scientists have seen gorillas use tools only in captivity¹³.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. covert: a. Not openly practiced, avowed¹⁴, engaged in, accumulated, or shown: covert military operations; covert funding for the rebels.

2. flip⁸ : vi. To turn over

3. rudimentary: a. Of or relating to basic facts or principles; elementary

4. poke¹⁵: vt. To push; thrust