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1. A woman and her baby daughter have died in the wild fires that have spread across parts of Texas. Thousands of acres are burned in the eastern and central parts of the state. Officials say the flames were propelled by high winds from tropical storm Lee.

2. A small plane crash that led one person dead in southern California has sparked a brush fire. It forced residents of 100 homes to evacuate¹. Officials say more than 400 firefighters are working to contain the flame.

3. The tropical depression that was once tropical storm Lee is moving northeast, now threatening to cause flash flooding in the Appalachians. Over the weekend, the storm dumped more than a foot of rain on New Orleans and caused wind damage and flooding in parts of the Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi coasts.

4. At least 26 people are dead in Japan after the worst typhoon that hit the country in 7 years. Rescue workers and search parties are spreading out across the central part of the country which is still reeling from the catastrophic tsunami² of 6 months ago.

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1 evacuate
v.遣送；搬空；抽出；排泄；大(小)便
参考例句：
We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵！ They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。

2 tsunami
n.海啸
参考例句：
Powerful quake sparks tsunami warning in Japan.大地震触发了日本的海啸预警。 Coastlines all around the Indian Ocean inundated by a huge tsunami.大海啸把印度洋沿岸地区都淹没了。