英语听力：澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2014-01-13

 A large bushfire in the Perth hills has destroyed at least 27 homes. Hundreds of people have spent the night in evacuation centres. The blaze has burnt out about 650 hectares. Fire authorities say the bushire is contained, but not under control. 

 

And fire crews across Australia are preparing for a week of scorching¹ temperatures. A heatwave is making its way across much of the country with temperatures in some areas expected to top 40 degress in the coming days.

 

Police believe an excess of speed may be to blame for a triple fatality² in Melbourne's southeast. Police say a car hit a 45-year-old man as he was crossing Dandenong(丹德农，澳大利亚地名）Road at Oakleigh shortly after half past eleven last night before crashing into another car. The pedestrian and two passengers in the second car died at the scene. 

 

Police hold grave fears for the safety of a missing Queensland man and his daughter lost on a New South Wales' far north quote(口误）coast. Thirty-five-year-old Greg Hutchings and four-year-old Eeva Dorendahl were last seen on Saturday when they set out on a walk to meet the girl's mother at Pottsville. 

 

Israelis have been paying their last respects to their former prime minister Ariel Sharon. Mr. Sharon died at the weekend after eight years in a coma³. His body is lying in state ahead of a funeral to be held later today.

1 scorching   

adj. 灼热的

参考例句：

• a scorching, pitiless sun 灼热的骄阳
• a scorching critique of the government's economic policy 对政府经济政策的严厉批评

2 fatality   

n.不幸，灾祸，天命

参考例句：

• She struggle against fatality in vain.她徒然奋斗反抗宿命。
• He began to have a growing sense of fatality.他开始有一种越来越强烈的宿命感。

3 coma   

n.昏迷，昏迷状态

参考例句：

• The patient rallied from the coma.病人从昏迷中苏醒过来。
• She went into a coma after swallowing a whole bottle of sleeping pills.她吃了一整瓶安眠药后就昏迷过去了。