美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2016-5-11_在线英语听力室

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1. The Alberta government says the massive blaze in the Canadian province has covered nearly 400,000 acres. Canadian officials said on Sunday that the evacuations in the area were completed.

2. Two buses and a fuel tanker¹ collided on Sunday on a major highway in Afghanistan, killing² 52 people and wounding dozens. Local residents helped firefighters and first responders pull survivors³ from the wreckage⁴.

3. Archaeologists clashed on Sunday in a conference in Egypt over a theory that secret chambers⁵ could be hidden behind a wall of King Tutankhamun's tomb. The tomb has been extensively scanned by Radar⁶ with preliminary results, suggesting two open-spaces with sign of metal and organic matter lie behind the western and northern walls.

4. Award-winning actress and singer Rita Moreno showed up a rapping skill, while delivering the commencement address at Boston's Berklee College of Music on Saturday. The 84-year old credited Lin-Manuel Miranda, the musical "Hamilton" inspiring her to rap.

Krysta Fauria, the associated press, with AP news minute.

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1 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。

2 killing
n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财
参考例句：
Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。 Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

3 survivors
幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )
参考例句：
The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。 survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者

4 wreckage
n.（失事飞机等的）残骸，破坏，毁坏
参考例句：
They hauled him clear of the wreckage.他们把他从形骸中拖出来。 New states were born out of the wreckage of old colonial empires.新生国家从老殖民帝国的废墟中诞生。

5 chambers
n.房间( chamber的名词复数 )；（议会的）议院；卧室；会议厅
参考例句：
The body will be removed into one of the cold storage chambers. 尸体将被移到一个冷冻间里。来自《简明英汉词典》 Mr Chambers's readable book concentrates on the middle passage: the time Ransome spent in Russia. Chambers先生的这本值得一看的书重点在中间：Ransome在俄国的那几年。来自互联网

6 radar
n.雷达，无线电探测器
参考例句：
They are following the flight of an aircraft by radar.他们正在用雷达追踪一架飞机的飞行。 Enemy ships were detected on the radar.敌舰的影像已显现在雷达上。

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美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2016-5-11