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1. An attorney for the captain of the Costa Concordia says his client has been placed under house arrest. Captain Francesco Schettino has been accused of causing Friday's deadly shipwreck¹ off the Italian coast. In a newly released recording², Schettino can be heard resisting orders to return to the ship to help passengers evacuate³.

2. Supporters of an effort to force Wisconsin's governor out of office say they've collected one million signatures on their recall petitions. The drive started largely in reaction to a law pushed by Governor Scott Walker that ended nearly all collective bargaining rights for most public workers.

3. Mitt⁴ Romney says he will release his 2011 tax returns in April. And they'll show he pays close to 15 percent of his income in taxes. The multimillionaire has been under pressure from his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination⁵ to release the information.

4. After making its way across 5,000 miles of high seas and thick ice, the crew of a Russian tanker⁶ is now unloading more than a million gallons of fuel to the city of Nome, Alaska. Officials expect the transfer to take about five days to complete.

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1 shipwreck
n.船舶失事，海难
参考例句：
He walked away from the shipwreck.他船难中平安地脱险了。 The shipwreck was a harrowing experience.那次船难是一个惨痛的经历。

2 recording
n.录音，记录
参考例句：
How long will the recording of the song take?录下这首歌得花多少时间？ I want to play you a recording of the rehearsal.我想给你放一下彩排的录像。

3 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。

4 mitt
n.棒球手套，拳击手套，无指手套；vt.铐住，握手
参考例句：
I gave him a baseball mitt for his birthday.为祝贺他的生日，我送给他一只棒球手套。 Tom squeezed a mitt and a glove into the bag.汤姆把棒球手套和手套都塞进袋子里。

5 nomination
n.提名，任命，提名权
参考例句：
John is favourite to get the nomination for club president.约翰最有希望被提名为俱乐部主席。 Few people pronounced for his nomination.很少人表示赞成他的提名。

6 tanker
n.油轮
参考例句：
The tanker took on 200,000 barrels of crude oil.油轮装载了二十万桶原油。 Heavy seas had pounded the tanker into three parts.汹涌的巨浪把油轮撞成三载。