AP美联社一分钟新闻 2008-10-01（在线收听）

1.Congressional leaders are scrambling to make changes to the 700 billion dollar financial bailout bill that failed in Congress Monday. Presidential candidates McCain and Obama both said they back Republican measure to increase the FDIC insurance limit to 250,000 dollars. Lawmakers are trying to reassure nervous Americans.

2.Nearly 170 people were killed in a stampede at a Hindu temple in western India. More than 12,000 people are gathered to worship when false rumors of a bomb spread through the crowd.

3.Eleven people who were kidnapped in Egypt have returned to their home countries. The five Italians, five Germans and one Romanian flew home after a week-long ordeal. One former captor says the hostage-taker suddenly told them to get in their car and drive away.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1.scramble v.

informal act in a hurried, disorderly, or undignified manner

2.stampede n.

a sudden rapid movement or reaction of a mass of people due to interest or panic.

3.ordeal n.

a prolonged painful or horrific experience

4.captor n.

One who captures any person or thing, as a prisoner or a prize.

5.hostage-taker n.

A person or party which seizes hostages is/are known as (a) hostage-taker(s)