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The Hollywood actress Debbie Reynolds has died just one day after the death of her daughter, the film star Carrie Fisher. She was 84 and had been rushed to hospital with a suspected stroke. Her son said the stress of his sister's death had been too much for their mother.

The Turkish Foreign Minister says that Turkey and Russian are planning to implement¹ a ceasefire across the whole of Syria before the start of the New Year. The announcement from Mevlut Cavusoglu came on a day Syrian rebels said they would meet Russian officials in Turkey to discuss a ceasefire.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has condemned² as biased³ a speech by the US Secretary of State John Kerry that was highly critical of his country. He said Mr. Kerry was focusing obsessively⁴ on Israeli settlements but had hardly commented on Palestinian violence.

Police in Germany will today decide whether to issue a formal arrest warrant for a Tunisian thought to be linked to the man who drove a lorry into a Christmas market in Berlin. The man has been held under temporary detentions⁵ since Wednesday.

A study of more than 2,000 paintings by famous artists has provided new information about the development of brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson's. A mathematical analysis of the brush strokes used by artists has shown that changes occurred in those who developed neurological diseases sometimes decades before they showed any obvious symptoms.

Prosecutors⁶ in the American State of Arkansas have asked a court to force the online giant Amazon to provide data collected by a voice-control smart assistant being logged into a murder suspect. Amazon has so far said it objects to such requests as a matter of practice.

Police in Australia say they've smashed an international drug syndicate allegedly responsible for importing about 260 million dollars worth of cocaine⁷. Fifteen men have been arrested.

好莱坞女演员戴比·雷诺兹（Debbie Reynolds）在其女儿——影星凯丽·费雪（Carrie Fisher）去世后仅一天也相继离世。雷诺兹享年84岁，据称是因中风发作而被紧急送往医院。雷诺兹的儿子说，自己姐姐的离世对于母亲来说是很大的打击。

土耳其外长表示，土耳其和俄罗斯正计划在新年到来之前在整个叙利亚范围内实施停火协议。外长梅夫吕特·恰武什奥卢（Mevlut Cavusoglu）的这则声明与叙利亚叛军表示将在土耳其与俄罗斯官员会员讨论停火协议是在同一天。

以色列总理内塔尼亚胡斥责美国国务卿对以色列极尽犀利之词的评价有失公允。内塔尼亚胡表示，克里过分关注以色列的定居点事宜，却只字不提巴勒斯坦的暴力行径。

德国警方今天将会决定是否发布正式逮捕证以拘捕涉嫌将卡车开进柏林圣诞市场的突尼斯男子。该名男子自周三以来就处于被临时拘留。

一则对知名艺术家2000多幅画作的研究为包括阿兹海默症和帕金森在内的脑部疾病提供了新信息。对这些艺术家下笔的数学分析表明，对于患有神经疾病的人来说，有时候早在他们表现出明显症状前就会发生一些变化了。

阿肯色州警方请求法院迫使在线巨头公司亚马逊提供其声控智能助手收集到的有关某杀人嫌犯的数据。亚马逊表示其拒绝这样的请求。

澳大利亚警方表示其已粉碎了某个涉嫌进口价值近2.6亿美元可卡因的国际毒枭团伙。其中15名犯罪分子已被拘捕。

1 implement   

n.(pl.)工具，器具；vt.实行，实施，执行

参考例句：

• Don't undertake a project unless you can implement it.不要承担一项计划，除非你能完成这项计划。
• The best implement for digging a garden is a spade.在花园里挖土的最好工具是铁锹。

2 condemned   

adj. 被责难的, 被宣告有罪的 动词condemn的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• He condemned the hypocrisy of those politicians who do one thing and say another. 他谴责了那些说一套做一套的政客的虚伪。
• The policy has been condemned as a regressive step. 这项政策被认为是一种倒退而受到谴责。

3 biased   

a.有偏见的

参考例句：

• a school biased towards music and art 一所偏重音乐和艺术的学校
• The Methods: They employed were heavily biased in the gentry's favour. 他们采用的方法严重偏袒中上阶级。

4 obsessively   

ad.着迷般地，过分地

参考例句：

• Peter was obsessively jealous and his behaviour was driving his wife away. 彼得过分嫉妒的举止令他的妻子想离他而去。
• He's rude to his friends and obsessively jealous. 他对他的朋友很无礼而且嫉妒心重。

5 detentions   

拘留( detention的名词复数 )； 扣押； 监禁； 放学后留校

参考例句：

• Teachers may assign detention tasks as they wish and some detentions have been actually dangerous. 老师可能随心所欲指派关禁闭的形式，有些禁闭事实上很危险。
• Intimidation, beatings and administrative detentions are often enough to prevent them from trying again. 恐吓，拷打和行政拘留足以阻止请愿者二次进京的脚步。

6 prosecutors   

检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 )； 告发人； 起诉人； 公诉人

参考例句：

• In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方，检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
• You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。

7 cocaine   

n.可卡因，古柯碱（用作局部麻醉剂）

参考例句：

• That young man is a cocaine addict.那个年轻人吸食可卡因成瘾。
• Don't have cocaine abusively.不可滥服古柯碱。