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1. The Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church held a memorial service in honor of the two people killed in a shooting rampage a week ago. Six others were hurt. The suspect in the case is due in court Tuesday.
2. A British man who was attacked during his Caribbean honeymoon1 has died. Benjamin Mullany was declared dead at a Wales hospital. He and his wife Catherine were attacked last week while they vacationed in Antigua, she was killed immediately.
3. One hundred and forty-five people were killed in a stampede at a Hindu temple in northern India. The pilgrims were attending a nine-day religious festival. Dozens of people fell over the edge of a mountain path when a railing gave way.
4. Brett Farve will return to the Green Bay Packers' roster2 effective Monday afternoon. Farve announced his retirement3 in March. The NFL commissioner4 held off on granting Farve's request for reinstatement for nearly a week, hoping he and the team would resolve their differences.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. Unitarian Universalism: n. 一位论-普救派
A religious association of Christian5 origin that has no official creed6 and that considers God to be unipersonal, salvation7 to be granted to the entire human race, and reason and conscience to be the criteria8 for belief and practice.
2. stampede: n.
If a lot of people all do the same thing at the same time, you can describe it as a stampede.
3. Hindu: adj.
Hindu is used to describe things that belong or relate to Hinduism(印度教).
4. railing: n.
A fence made from metal bars is called a railing or railings.
5. roster: n.
a list of the names of people on a sports team, in an organization etc.
6. hold off: v.
If you hold off doing something, you delay doing it or delay making a decision about it.
7. reinstatement: n.
Reinstatement is the act of giving someone back a job or position which has been taken away from them.
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