英语听力：澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2014-01-06

 And leading the news this morning.

 

Controversial Liberal Senator Cory Bernanke has called for an end to the rising rate of abortions² in his new book“the Conservative Revolution”. Senator Bernanke accused some women of using abortion¹ as a harm form of birth control. He also labelled those replicate³ pro-choice as pro-death. 

 

An autopsy⁴ will be conducted on an Australian woman and her daughter who died in Bali to try to determine the cause of their deaths. Fifty-four-year-old Noelene Bischoff and her 14-year-old daughter Yvana fell ill after eating at a local restaurant. It's suspected the pair may have suffered food poisoning after eating fish. 

 

Police in Melbourne are continuing to investigate an explosion in an apartment that left three officers badly burned. They were trying to help a man who was threatening to harm himself when an LP-gas explosion ripped through the middle park unit. Police are hoping to interview the man soon. 

 

And Llyeton Hewitt is celebrating a stunning⁵ tennis comeback after years of injury. He's beaten 17-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer at the Brisbane international final. The win put Hewitt back inside the top 50 again ahead of the Australian Open later this month. 

 

And the warring parties in South Sudan are due to begin peace talks in Ethiopia to try to end three weeks of conflict. Meanwhile, fighting is continuing in South Sudan. A South Sudanese army general has been killed in fighting outside the rebel-held town of Bor.

1 abortion   

n.流产，堕胎

参考例句：

• She had an abortion at the women's health clinic.她在妇女保健医院做了流产手术。
• A number of considerations have led her to have a wilful abortion.多种考虑使她执意堕胎。

2 abortions   

n.小产( abortion的名词复数 )；小产胎儿；（计划）等中止或夭折；败育

参考例句：

• The Venerable Master: By not having abortions, by not killing living beings. 上人：不堕胎、不杀生。 来自互联网
• Conclusion Chromosome abnormality is one of the causes of spontaneous abortions. 结论：染色体异常是导致反复自然流产的原因之一。 来自互联网

3 replicate   

v.折叠，复制，模写；n.同样的样品；adj.转折的

参考例句：

• The DNA of chromatin must replicate before cell division.染色质DNA在细胞分裂之前必须复制。
• It is also easy to replicate,as the next subsection explains.就像下一个小节详细说明的那样，它还可以被轻易的复制。

4 autopsy   

n.尸体解剖；尸检

参考例句：

• They're carrying out an autopsy on the victim.他们正在给受害者验尸。
• A hemorrhagic gut was the predominant lesion at autopsy.尸检的主要发现是肠出血。

5 stunning   

adj.极好的；使人晕倒的

参考例句：

• His plays are distinguished only by their stunning mediocrity.他的戏剧与众不同之处就是平凡得出奇。
• The finished effect was absolutely stunning.完工后的效果非常美。