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1. Republicans in Mississippi and Alabama head to the polls today. The two states are holding their presidential primaries. Both states are deeply conservative, and are seen as a major test for Mitt¹ Romney who's struggling to attract conservative votes.

2. A University of Maryland honors student faces one misdemeanor charge for allegedly threatening to go on a campus shooting rampage. Campus police say they found no weapons in searches of Alexander Song's dorm room and his parents' home.

3. Taliban militants² attacked an Afghan government delegation³ in southern Afghanistan today, killing⁴ an Afghan soldier. The delegation was visiting one of the villages where a US soldier is suspected of killing 16 civilians⁵.

4. And British police arrested six people today in connection with the media phone hacking⁶ scandal. All of the arrests were in London. The investigation⁷ stems from phone hacking by British tabloids⁸.

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1 mitt
n.棒球手套，拳击手套，无指手套；vt.铐住，握手
参考例句：
I gave him a baseball mitt for his birthday.为祝贺他的生日，我送给他一只棒球手套。 Tom squeezed a mitt and a glove into the bag.汤姆把棒球手套和手套都塞进袋子里。

2 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。

3 delegation
n.代表团；派遣
参考例句：
The statement of our delegation was singularly appropriate to the occasion.我们代表团的声明非常适合时宜。 We shall inform you of the date of the delegation's arrival.我们将把代表团到达的日期通知你。

4 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。

5 civilians
平民，百姓( civilian的名词复数 )；老百姓
参考例句：
the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀 At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后，至少有300名平民下落不明。

6 hacking
n.非法访问计算机系统和数据库的活动
参考例句：
The patient with emphysema is hacking all day. 这个肺气肿病人整天不断地干咳。 We undertook the task of hacking our way through the jungle. 我们负责在丛林中开路。

7 investigation
n.调查，调查研究
参考例句：
In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。 He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

8 tabloids
n.小报，通俗小报（版面通常比大报小一半，文章短，图片多，经常报道名人佚事）( tabloid的名词复数 )；药片
参考例句：
The story was on the front pages of all the tabloids. 所有小报都在头版报道了这件事。 The story made the front page in all the tabloids. 这件事成了所有小报的头版新闻。