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1. Fire crews in southern California are getting some help from calmer winds. The fires have destroyed hundreds of homes and forced thousands of people to evacuate1. Some 34 square miles have been blackened since Thursday.

2. Two top Republican senators are saying they will oppose a Democratic plan to bail2 out Detroit automakers, calling the US industry "a dinosaur3" whose "day of reckoning" is coming. Democratic leaders want to use 25 billion dollars of the 700-billion-dollar financial industry bailout to help General Motors, Ford4 and Chrysler.

3. Iraq's Cabinet has approved a security agreement that lets US forces stay there for another three years. A stamp of approval from parliament is considered likely.

4. And a dramatic video shows the aftermath of a bridge collapse5 in an Indian-controlled region of Kashmir. Four workers were killed, 19 others missing. The bridge was under construction.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. dinosaur: n.

If you refer to an organization as a dinosaur, you mean that it is large, inefficient6, and out of date.

2. reckoning: n.

a time when you are judged or punished for your actions, or when they have results that affect you

 


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1 evacuate ai1zL     
v.遣送；搬空；抽出；排泄；大(小)便
参考例句：
  • We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵！
  • They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。
2 bail Aupz4     
v.舀（水），保释；n.保证金，保释，保释人
参考例句：
  • One of the prisoner's friends offered to bail him out.犯人的一个朋友答应保释他出来。
  • She has been granted conditional bail.她被准予有条件保释。
3 dinosaur xuSxp     
n.恐龙
参考例句：
  • Are you trying to tell me that David was attacked by a dinosaur?你是想要告诉我大卫被一支恐龙所攻击？
  • He stared at the faithful miniature of the dinosaur.他凝视著精确的恐龙缩小模型。
4 Ford KiIxx     
n.浅滩，水浅可涉处；v.涉水，涉过
参考例句：
  • They were guarding the bridge,so we forded the river.他们驻守在那座桥上，所以我们只能涉水过河。
  • If you decide to ford a stream,be extremely careful.如果已决定要涉过小溪，必须极度小心。
5 collapse aWvyE     
vi.累倒；昏倒；倒塌；塌陷
参考例句：
  • The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
  • The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。
6 inefficient c76xm     
adj.效率低的，无效的
参考例句：
  • The inefficient operation cost the firm a lot of money.低效率的运作使该公司损失了许多钱。
  • Their communication systems are inefficient in the extreme.他们的通讯系统效率非常差。

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