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 Leading our news this morning, hundreds of Australian families are still desperately1 trying to make contact with their loved ones in Nepal after the weekend’s earthquake disaster. The death toll2 has now reached 2500. International help is arriving in Nepal as powerful after shocks continue to rock the region.

 
“Those who have family members in that part of the world (is) try first to make contact with those individuals and obviously make contact with the Department of Foreign Affairs.”
 
Australian drug smuggler3 Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran could face the firing squad4 as early as Wednesday. Indonesia has formally notified the men of their pending5 execution, but an exact date has still not been announced. Family and friends will again visit the men on their island prison today.
 
Two of the country’s key crime agencies are set for a shake-up in next month’s budget. The ABC has learned preparations are underway to scrap6 the Australian Institute of Criminology and merges7 its functions with the Australian Crime Commission. Now that move would save millions of dollars but a final decision is yet to be made.
 
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton will receive a 4000-page petition today, asking him not to deport8 a 10-year-old boy who has autism. Tyrone Sevilla has been refused an Australian visa because of the diagnosis9. His mother Maria came to Australian from the Philippines 8 years ago to study nursing and now works in the Townsville hospital.

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1 desperately cu7znp     
adv.极度渴望地，绝望地，孤注一掷地
参考例句：
  • He was desperately seeking a way to see her again.他正拼命想办法再见她一面。
  • He longed desperately to be back at home.他非常渴望回家。
2 toll LJpzo     
n.过路(桥)费；损失，伤亡人数；v.敲(钟)
参考例句：
  • The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
  • The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
3 smuggler 0xFwP     
n.走私者
参考例句：
  • The smuggler is in prison tonight, awaiting extradition to Britain. 这名走私犯今晚在监狱，等待引渡到英国。
  • The smuggler was finally obliged to inform against his boss. 那个走私犯最后不得不告发他的首领。
4 squad 4G1zq     
n.班，小队，小团体；vt.把…编成班或小组
参考例句：
  • The squad leader ordered the men to mark time.班长命令战士们原地踏步。
  • A squad is the smallest unit in an army.班是军队的最小构成单位。
5 pending uMFxw     
prep.直到，等待…期间；adj.待定的；迫近的
参考例句：
  • The lawsuit is still pending in the state court.这案子仍在州法庭等待定夺。
  • He knew my examination was pending.他知道我就要考试了。
6 scrap JDFzf     
n.碎片；废料；v.废弃，报废
参考例句：
  • A man comes round regularly collecting scrap.有个男人定时来收废品。
  • Sell that car for scrap.把那辆汽车当残品卖了吧。
7 merges a03f3f696e7db24b06d3a6b806144742     
（使）混合( merge的第三人称单数 )； 相融； 融入； 渐渐消失在某物中
参考例句：
  • The 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Mo Yan"who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary". 2012年诺贝尔文学奖得主为莫言，他“很好地将魔幻现实与民间故事、历史与当代结合在一起”。
  • A device that collates, merges, or matches sets of punched cards or other documents. 一种整理、合并或比较一组穿孔卡片或其它文档的设备。
8 deport aw2x6     
vt.驱逐出境
参考例句：
  • We deport aliens who slip across our borders.我们把偷渡入境的外国人驱逐出境。
  • More than 240 England football fans are being deported from Italy following riots last night.昨晚的骚乱发生后有240多名英格兰球迷被驱逐出意大利。
9 diagnosis GvPxC     
n.诊断，诊断结果，调查分析，判断
参考例句：
  • His symptoms gave no obvious pointer to a possible diagnosis.他的症状无法作出明确的诊断。
  • The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做一次彻底的调查分析。

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