美联社新闻一分钟 2007-08-07

Six miners are trapped 1500 feet underground in Huntington, Utah, about 140 miles south of Salt Lake City. The cave-in at the Genwal mine was so strong that authorities first thought it was an earthquake.

Crews in Minneapolis are using a high-resolution camera to search underwater after last week's deadly bridge collapse¹. Meanwhile divers² continue the delicate task of looking for eight missing people. At least five others died in the collapse.

President Bush and Afghan President Hamid Karzai are wrapping up a two-day meeting at Camp David. Bush says Afghanistan has made progress since the Taliban fell in 2001, but acknowledges³ there is still work to be done.

Police in France are looking for a group of armed masked men who stole four famous paintings from a museum in broad daylight. The artwork is worth more than one million dollars. One of the pieces was painted by Claude Monet in 1897.

WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. cave-in: noun
when the roof of something such as a mine falls in

2. Genwal mine:
a mine operated by Genwal Resources Inc.

3. high-resolution: adj
高分辨率，高清晰的

4. delicate: adj
needing to be dealt with carefully or sensitively in order to avoid problems or failure

5. wrap up:
to finish a job, meeting etc

6. fall: verb
if a leader or a government falls, they lose their position of power

7. in broad daylight:
if something, especially a crime, happens in broad daylight, it happens in the daytime and in public

8. artwork: noun [U and C]
paintings and other objects produced by artists

1 collapse   

vi.累倒；昏倒；倒塌；塌陷

参考例句：

• The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
• The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。

2 divers   

adj.不同的；种种的

参考例句：

• He chose divers of them,who were asked to accompany him.他选择他们当中的几个人，要他们和他作伴。
• Two divers work together while a standby diver remains on the surface.两名潜水员协同工作，同时有一名候补潜水员留在水面上。

3 acknowledges   

v.承认( acknowledge的第三人称单数 )；鸣谢；对…打招呼；告知已收到

参考例句：

• Chagrin is not something a great man often acknowledges. 一位伟大的人物往往是不肯承认自己恼羞成怒的。 来自辞典例句
• The Daily Food Guide acknowledges this by identifying the fat-sweets group. 每日膳食指南通过鉴定脂肪一糖类确认了这一点。 来自互联网