CNN 2012-05-25

 I’m K and you’re watching CNN student news. Today we’ll take you to Joplin, Missouri to check on recovery efforts out there one year after a massive tornado¹ struck. But we’re starting today in Chicago with the NATO meeting about the war in Afghanistan. War leaders got together on Sunday and Monday to talk about plans to end that war. The international security force led by US troops is scheduled to end combat operation and be out of Afghanistan by the end of 2014. President Obama says that plan is on track.

 

Two years ago, in Lisbon, our nations agreed on the framework for transition in Afghanistan that would allow us to responsibly wind down the war. We agreed that this transition to Afghanistan lead for a security would begin in 2011, and that we conclude in 2014. At the same time, we said we would seek a long-term partnership² with Afghanistan and the Afghan people. Over the past two years, we’ve made important progress. Our forces broke the Taliban’s Momentum³. More Afghans are reclaiming⁴ their communities, Afghan’s security forces have grown stronger, and the transition that we agreed to Lisbon is well underway.

 

Meanwhile, protestors outside the NATO meeting probed with the police officers on Sunday. A law enforcement official said at least 45 people were arrested and 4 officers were injured.

 

Turning now to the race for the White House. Its primary day, Tuesday is the day. Voters are heading with the post in O and Kentucky. Primary season is winding⁵ down though. After Tuesday’s republican contest, 7 more to go. The Texas’ primary is next Tuesday, then 5 states the week after that, and you talk closest things out in late June.

 

Yeah we’re suddenly stressful, and it’s so much harder than like, like how my wife was, like it has changed a lot, and it’s still different, but I know it’s gonna be better.

 

EF5 is the most powerful and the most destructive category of tornado, and that is what hit the city of Joplin, Missouri exactly one year ago today. More than 150 people were killed. There were homes, businesses, the local schools just destroyed. This is a quick look back at the natural disaster and its immediate⁶ aftermath.

 

A lot of us started in shock, because we’ve always expected like go, Joplin is always a place with tornado, misses all we always spend *, nothing ever happened to Joplin.

 

***, with hospital down, the high school down.

 

So that was a year ago. And today Joplin is rebuilding. Officials estimated nearly 130,000 workers have spent hundreds of thousands of hours helping⁷ with the recovery process. Juniors and Seniors in high spent this year going the classes in part of a shopping mall. Schools graduation ceremony was yesterday, the speaker was president Obama. And one of this year’ graduates L M, talked about her city’s efforts to move forward.

1 tornado   

n.飓风，龙卷风

参考例句：

• A tornado whirled into the town last week.龙卷风上周袭击了这座城市。
• The approaching tornado struck awe in our hearts.正在逼近的龙卷风使我们惊恐万分。

2 partnership   

n.合作关系，伙伴关系

参考例句：

• The company has gone into partnership with Swiss Bank Corporation.这家公司已经和瑞士银行公司建立合作关系。
• Martin has taken him into general partnership in his company.马丁已让他成为公司的普通合伙人。

3 momentum   

n.动力，冲力，势头；动量

参考例句：

• We exploit the energy and momentum conservation laws in this way.我们就是这样利用能量和动量守恒定律的。
• The law of momentum conservation could supplant Newton's third law.动量守恒定律可以取代牛顿第三定律。

4 reclaiming   

v.开拓( reclaim的现在分词 )；要求收回；从废料中回收（有用的材料）；挽救

参考例句：

• People here are reclaiming land from the sea. 这儿的人们正在填海拓地。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• How could such a man need reclaiming? 这么一个了不起的人怎么还需要别人拯救呢？ 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹

5 winding   

n.绕，缠，绕组，线圈

参考例句：

• A winding lane led down towards the river.一条弯弯曲曲的小路通向河边。
• The winding trail caused us to lose our orientation.迂回曲折的小道使我们迷失了方向。

6 immediate   

adj.立即的；直接的，最接近的；紧靠的

参考例句：

• His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
• We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。

7 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。