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　　Communities along the US east coast are engaged in massive cleanup after the devastation¹ of hurricane Isabel. A Hurricane caused about 25 deaths and up to a billion dollars in damage as it slammed into North Carolina's B. islands and turned its way north to Virginia and Maryland. President Bush has declared those states and the Washington D.C. disaster area and enabling them to get federal assistants. The hurricane damaged or destroyed thousands homes and business, uprooted² trees washed away roads and bridges and cut electricity to about six million people.
Attacks in Iraq killed 2 US soldiers and wounded at least 3 others Wednesday. 1 soldier was killed late Wednesday after coming under fire in Baghdad. Earlier a roadside bombing killed another US soldier in Tikrit. Elsewhere Iraqi police opened fire outside employment offices in central Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul to disperse³ groups of demonstrators demanding jobs. Meanwhile US officials say they are discussing with other United Nations Security Council members on newly revised draft resolution on Iraq.
At least one Saudi Arabian policemen and 3 militants⁴ were killed Tuesday in a shootout in J. province near the border with Yemen. An Interior Ministry⁵ statement says 5 militants were involved in the shootout and 4 other policemen were wounded. Saudi Security forces have had several clashes with suspected militants since launching a crackdown after the last May's suicide bombings that killed 35 people in the Capital Riyadh.
OPEC has officially announced that 3.5% cut in output, that's sent oil prices soaring. US stock markets fell sharply on Wednesday after the announcement and the reduction in its production quotas⁶. The Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled 150 points at 9426.
On Wall Street today the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 19 points. The S&P 500 which is a measure of the activities of a broad segment of the market rose 2 points. And the NASDAQ, which includes many technology stocks, finished 4 points higher.
Europe has launched its first mission to the moon. An A-5 rocket carrying a Smart-I moon exploration probe and 2 commercial satellites blasted off from French Diana Saturday night. The European space agency's moon probe is scheduled to reach a lunar orbit in 15 months to begin carrying out scientific experiments.
Electric Power has not been restored across Italy following a country-wide outage left 57-million people in the dark.Planes and trains were left strained, traffic accidents occured darken in the sections. authorities blame three death on the outage.whose origin is still being investigated.
President George W. Bush has signed a law allowing people to tell telephone sales people not to call them any more.Americans prefer not to receive random⁷ sales pictures at all hours of the day, and the Americans people should be free to restrict these calls.Federal communication's commission chairman Michael Paul says his agency will enforce the law vigorously.The minute that we believe that a tele-marketer has been given the notice required that they can not call somebody or they are going to trigger our rules, and we will forcefully enforce them.
US first lady Laura Bush meanwhile was in Palace to mark the US return to the United Nations Educational Scientific and Culture Organization after a 20-year boycott⁸.As of 8.1 the United States government will once again be a full active and enthusiastic participant in UNESCO's important mission to promote peace and freedom. Laura Bush.The United State quit the UNESCO in 1984 accusing it of mismanagement and anti-western bias⁹.
Burundi's government and the main rebel group there have reached a deal on key security and political issues aimed at ending twenty year's of civil war. Reports say the two sides have worked out a sharing leadership of the military and police and on the transformation¹⁰ of the force, the Defense¹¹ and Democracy rebel group into a political party. However, issues of immunity¹² for the rebels and bringing them into senate have yet to be resolved. The two sides signed a peace agreement last month.
Researchers in Taiwan say genetics may explain why Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome¹⁴ affected¹⁵ mostly Asians. A team from Mackay Memorial Hospital in Taipei says patients found to have a variant¹⁶ of an immune system gene¹³ called HLA were more likely to develop SARS. The team says the gene is common in people in southern Chinese descent and is rarely found in European populations. SARS first arose in China's southern Guangdong province.
And scientists in South Africa say they will begin the nation's first clinical trial of a potential vaccine¹⁷ for the AIDS virus that with 48 volunteers. Half of those volunteers come to the United States. The other half are in South Africa. Testing of two other potential vaccines¹⁸ is to begin soon.

1 devastation   

n.毁坏；荒废；极度震惊或悲伤

参考例句：

• The bomb caused widespread devastation. 炸弹造成大面积破坏。
• There was devastation on every side. 到处都是破坏的创伤。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 uprooted   

v.把（某物）连根拔起( uproot的过去式和过去分词 )；根除；赶走；把…赶出家园

参考例句：

• Many people were uprooted from their homes by the flood. 水灾令许多人背井离乡。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The hurricane blew with such force that trees were uprooted. 飓风强烈地刮着，树都被连根拔起了。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 disperse   

vi.使分散；使消失；vt.分散；驱散

参考例句：

• The cattle were swinging their tails to disperse the flies.那些牛甩动着尾巴驱赶苍蝇。
• The children disperse for the holidays.孩子们放假了。

4 militants   

激进分子，好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
• Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。

5 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

6 quotas   

（正式限定的）定量( quota的名词复数 )； 定额； 指标； 摊派

参考例句：

• In fulfilling the production quotas, John made rings round all his fellow workers. 约翰完成生产定额大大超过他的同事们。
• Quotas of the means of production are allocated by the higher administrative bodies to the lower ones. 物资指标按隶属关系分配。

7 random   

adj.随机的；任意的；n.偶然的(或随便的)行动

参考例句：

• The list is arranged in a random order.名单排列不分先后。
• On random inspection the meat was found to be bad.经抽查，发现肉变质了。

8 boycott   

n./v.(联合)抵制，拒绝参与

参考例句：

• We put the production under a boycott.我们联合抵制该商品。
• The boycott lasts a year until the Victoria board permitsreturn.这个抗争持续了一年直到维多利亚教育局妥协为止。

9 bias   

n.偏见，偏心，偏袒；vt.使有偏见

参考例句：

• They are accusing the teacher of political bias in his marking.他们在指控那名教师打分数有政治偏见。
• He had a bias toward the plan.他对这项计划有偏见。

10 transformation   

n.变化；改造；转变

参考例句：

• Going to college brought about a dramatic transformation in her outlook.上大学使她的观念发生了巨大的变化。
• He was struggling to make the transformation from single man to responsible husband.他正在努力使自己由单身汉变为可靠的丈夫。

11 defense   

n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩

参考例句：

• The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
• The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。

12 immunity   

n.优惠；免除；豁免，豁免权

参考例句：

• The law gives public schools immunity from taxation.法律免除公立学校的纳税义务。
• He claims diplomatic immunity to avoid being arrested.他要求外交豁免以便避免被捕。

13 gene   

n.遗传因子，基因

参考例句：

• A single gene may have many effects.单一基因可能具有很多种效应。
• The targeting of gene therapy has been paid close attention.其中基因治疗的靶向性是值得密切关注的问题之一。

14 syndrome   

n.综合病症；并存特性

参考例句：

• The Institute says that an unidentified virus is to blame for the syndrome. 该研究所表示,引起这种综合症的是一种尚未确认的病毒。
• Results indicated that 11 fetuses had Down syndrome. 结果表明有11个胎儿患有唐氏综合征。

15 affected   

adj.不自然的，假装的

参考例句：

• She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
• His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。

16 variant   

adj.不同的，变异的；n.变体，异体

参考例句：

• We give professional suggestions according to variant tanning stages for each customer.我们针对每位顾客不同的日晒阶段，提供强度适合的晒黑建议。
• In a variant of this approach,the tests are data- driven.这个方法的一个变种，是数据驱动的测试。

17 vaccine   

n.牛痘苗，疫苗；adj.牛痘的，疫苗的

参考例句：

• The polio vaccine has saved millions of lives.脊髓灰质炎疫苗挽救了数以百万计的生命。
• She takes a vaccine against influenza every fall.她每年秋季接种流感疫苗。

18 vaccines   

疫苗，痘苗( vaccine的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• His team are at the forefront of scientific research into vaccines. 他的小组处于疫苗科研的最前沿。
• The vaccines were kept cool in refrigerators. 疫苗放在冰箱中冷藏。