AP美联社一分钟新闻 2008-11-29

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1.New York’s Jewish community as well as a mediation¹ center in Virginia are in mourning after they both lost members of their community in the terror attacks in India. A rabbi from New York and his wife were killed at a Jewish center in Mumbai while a Virginian man and his daughter were gunned down at a hotel there.

2.Indian commandos are still battling militants² holed up in a hotel in Mumbai. Gunfire could be heard through the night there as they tried to flush out the remaining terrorists.

3.It's been a rather bleak³ black Friday. At least three people have been killed at shopping centers in the U.S. A Wal-Mart employee died after he was trampled⁵ by overanxious customers in New York and two people have been killed in a shooting at a Toys “R” Us in California.

4.The oldest woman in the world has died. Edna Parker was 115 when she passed away Wednesday at a nursing home in Indiana. The title now falls to a Portuguese⁶ woman who was born back in 1893.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1.mediation center: n.

A mediation center offers the service of facilitation to assist others to discuss their conflicts and to agree on ways to resolve them

2.rabbi: n.

Rabbi a scholar qualified⁷ to interpret Jewish law

3.commando: n.

a soldier who is specially⁸ trained to make quick attacks into enemy areas

4.bleak: adj.

without anything to make you feel happy or hopeful

5.trample⁴: v.

to step heavily on something, so that you crush it with your feet

6.Toys “R” Us: n.

Toys "R" Us is the leading kids store for toys, video games, baby products, etc.