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1. The Los Angeles coroner's office says an autopsy¹ will be performed on Whitney Houston. The 48-year-old singer was found dead in a Los Angeles hotel room Saturday. She was also mourned Sunday at the church her family attended in Newark, New Jersey².

2. Nearly a month after a cruise ship capsized on the Italian coast, workers have started pumping fuel from the vessel³. It will take 28 consecutive⁴ days to remove the half-a-million gallons on board.

3. Rescuers pulled a five-year-old girl alive from the rubble⁵ of a house flatten⁶ by a massive avalanche⁷ that killed both her parents and at least seven relatives in Kosovo. The cold snap in Europe, which began in late January, has killed hundreds of people, most of them homeless.

4. And there was one winner of Saturday's 336-million-dollar Powerball lottery⁸. The ticket was purchased in Rhode Island, but no one has come forward to say they have it.

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1 autopsy
n.尸体解剖；尸检
参考例句：
They're carrying out an autopsy on the victim.他们正在给受害者验尸。 A hemorrhagic gut was the predominant lesion at autopsy.尸检的主要发现是肠出血。

2 jersey
n.运动衫
参考例句：
He wears a cotton jersey when he plays football.他穿运动衫踢足球。 They were dressed alike in blue jersey and knickers.他们穿着一致，都是蓝色的运动衫和灯笼短裤。

3 vessel
n.船舶；容器，器皿；管，导管，血管
参考例句：
The vessel is fully loaded with cargo for Shanghai.这艘船满载货物驶往上海。 You should put the water into a vessel.你应该把水装入容器中。

4 consecutive
adj.连续的，联贯的，始终一贯的
参考例句：
It has rained for four consecutive days.已连续下了四天雨。 The policy of our Party is consecutive.我党的政策始终如一。

5 rubble
n.（一堆）碎石，瓦砾
参考例句：
After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后，花了数月才清理完瓦砾。 After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。

6 flatten
v.把．．．弄平，使倒伏；使(漆等)失去光泽
参考例句：
We can flatten out a piece of metal by hammering it.我们可以用锤子把一块金属敲平。 The wrinkled silk will flatten out if you iron it.发皱的丝绸可以用熨斗烫平。

7 avalanche
n.雪崩，大量涌来
参考例句：
They were killed by an avalanche in the Swiss Alps.他们在瑞士阿尔卑斯山的一次雪崩中罹难。 Higher still the snow was ready to avalanche.在更高处积雪随时都会崩塌。

8 lottery
n.抽彩；碰运气的事，难于算计的事
参考例句：
He won no less than ￡5000 in the lottery.他居然中了5000英镑的奖券。 They thought themselves lucky in the lottery of life.他们认为自己是变幻莫测的人生中的幸运者。