美联社新闻一分钟 2007-08-07

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Six miners are trapped 1500 feet underground in Huntington, Utah, about 140 miles south of Salt Lake City. The cave-in at the Genwal mine was so strong that authorities first thought it was an earthquake.

Crews in Minneapolis are using a high-resolution camera to search underwater after last week's deadly bridge collapse¹. Meanwhile divers² continue the delicate task of looking for eight missing people. At least five others died in the collapse.

President Bush and Afghan President Hamid Karzai are wrapping up a two-day meeting at Camp David. Bush says Afghanistan has made progress since the Taliban fell in 2001, but acknowledges³ there is still work to be done.

Police in France are looking for a group of armed masked men who stole four famous paintings from a museum in broad daylight. The artwork is worth more than one million dollars. One of the pieces was painted by Claude Monet in 1897.

WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. cave-in: noun
when the roof of something such as a mine falls in

2. Genwal mine:
a mine operated by Genwal Resources Inc.

3. high-resolution: adj
高分辨率，高清晰的

4. delicate: adj
needing to be dealt with carefully or sensitively in order to avoid problems or failure

5. wrap up:
to finish a job, meeting etc

6. fall: verb
if a leader or a government falls, they lose their position of power

7. in broad daylight:
if something, especially a crime, happens in broad daylight, it happens in the daytime and in public

8. artwork: noun [U and C]
paintings and other objects produced by artists