美联社新闻一分钟 2007-06-01（在线收听）

1. We now know the identity of the federally-quarantined tuberculosis patient. He is Andrew Speaker, a 31-year-old Atlanta attorney. He is now at a Denver hospital that specializes in respiratory disorders. Speaker shuttled around Europe with the infection.

2. The director of FEMA says the agency is ready for the Atlantic hurricane season. It starts Friday and forecasters are predicting a spate of named storms. FEMA has pre-positioned supplies and equipment in key areas ready to move when storms strike.

3. In Baghdad, there is a new sort of power struggle to keep the lights on. A lack of a national power grid has entrepreneurs generating their own power to sell with generators going up around the city.

4. A salute to evangelist Billy Graham, a 27-million-dollar museum tracing his journey from a farm boy to befriending every US president since Harry Truman. Billy Graham is 88 years old and suffers from a range of health ailments.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. quarantine: verb
If a person or animal is in quarantine, they are being kept separate from other people or animal for a set period of time, usually because they have or may have a disease.

2. spate: n-count
A spate of things, especially unpleasant things, is a large number of them that happen or appear within a short period of time.

3. grid: n-count
A grid is a network of wires and cables by which source of power, such as electricity, are distributed throughout a country or area.