美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2013-05-05_在线英语听力室

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　　1.President Obama heads to Costa Rica Friday to meet with central American leaders. He'll speak to students in Mexico city before leaving Mexico.

　　2.A Boston area funeral home has claimed the body of the deceased marathon bombing suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Officials say Tsarnaev's family hired the funeral home.

　　3.More than 500 people are now known dead after the collapse¹ of a building in Bangladesh. The building's owner and an engineer who allegedly added three stories to the structure are both facing charges.

　　4.And southern California is contending² with growing wildfires. Thursday, one fire cut a 10-mile path to the Pacific Ocean, forcing the evacuation of a university and hundreds of homes.

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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 contending
争夺( contend的现在分词 )；竞争；搏斗；争斗
参考例句：
The fairy king and queen were contending over possession of the cat. 仙王和仙后争着要这只猫。 Our football team is contending with one from the next town for the championship. 我们的足球队正与邻镇的足球队争夺冠军。

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美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2013-05-05