美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2014-03-30_在线英语听力室

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The Obama administration is extending an affordable¹ care act deadline. The White House says that anyone in line for completing health insurance applications with the March 31st deadline to sign up hits will get more

time to finish.

At least 16 people are confirmed dead in last weekend's massive mudslide north of Seattle. Officials say more bodies have been spotted² but not yet recovered.

Planes and ships from a half dozen nations are searching waters southwest of Australia Wednesday for any sign of the missing Malaysian plane. Storms kept many of the ships and planes from searching Tuesday.

And President Obama is in Belgium attending a U.S.-European Union summit where he's solidifying³ the West's response to Russian intervention⁴ in Ukraine.

Matt Small, The Associated Press with AP News Minute.

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1 affordable
adj.支付得起的，不太昂贵的
参考例句：
The rent for the four-roomed house is affordable.四居室房屋的房租付得起。 There are few affordable apartments in big cities.在大城市中没有几所公寓是便宜的。

2 spotted
adj.有斑点的，斑纹的，弄污了的
参考例句：
The milkman selected the spotted cows,from among a herd of two hundred.牛奶商从一群200头牛中选出有斑点的牛。 Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.山姆的商店屯积了有斑点的短袜。

3 solidifying
（使）成为固体，（使）变硬，（使）变得坚固( solidify的现在分词 )；使团结一致；充实，巩固；具体化
参考例句：
The substances are formed from a mixture of liquids solidifying under pressure. 这些材料是由几种液体混合在一起并加压使之凝固而成的。 Painting is an art solidifies time and space for solidifying. 绘画是凝固了的时间和空间的艺术。

4 intervention
n.介入，干涉，干预
参考例句：
The government's intervention in this dispute will not help.政府对这场争论的干预不会起作用。 Many people felt he would be hostile to the idea of foreign intervention.许多人觉得他会反对外来干预。

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美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2014-03-30