AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-02-02

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1. Five days after a devastating¹ ice storm hit Kentucky, almost a half million residents are still without power. Governor Beshear has deployed² Kentucky's Army National Guard and part of the Air Guard. But authorities warned it could be days or even weeks before power is restored in the most remote spots.

2. Olympic great Michael Phelps has acknowledged regrettable behavior and bad judgement. That's after a photo in a British newspaper showed him inhaling³ from a marijuana pipe. Phelps won a record eight gold medals at the Beijing Games last August.

3. More than 100 people are dead in Kenya after a fuel truck exploded, another 200 were injured in the accident. The tanker⁴ truck had initially⁵ overturned, but as people rushed to the scene to scoop⁶ up free fuel, the truck blew up.

4. And a new patriarch has taken charge of the Russian Orthodox Church. Metropolitan⁷ Kirill is the first leader of the world's largest Orthodox church to take office after the fall of the Soviet⁸ Union.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. marijuana: n. 大麻

2. scoop up: phr v.

if a lot of people scoop something up, they buy it quickly so that soon there is none left