CNN新闻100篇

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CNN News Item 1

政治：美国因安全问题关闭在也门的大使馆

The

U.S.

government

closes

its

embassy

in

the

Middle Eastern country of Y

emen, and that is because of security concerns. One official says that a group called al

Qaeda

in

the

Arabian

Peninsula

might

be

planning

an

attack

against the

facility

.

That same

group said

it

was

behind an attempted plot to set off an explosive onboard a plane heading to Detroit, Michigan. That took place on

Christmas day. The suspect allegedly brought the explosives on the plane in his underwear. The plan failed when

the device he tried to use didn’t detonate correctly. Some people have asked how the suspect made it past security

.

One U.S. official says it’s because of human error

. President Obama has promised that everyone involved in

the

attack will be held accountable for it. But some critics argue that the president’s response to the situation hasn’t

been fast enough, hasn’t been aggressive enough.

CNN News Item 2

政治：印度石油工人结束三天的罢工

It’s

back

to

work

for

Indian

government

oil

worker

s

after

a three-day

strike that

crippled

Indian

commerce.

Some

45,000

oil

workers

walked

off

the

job

after

the

government

refused

their

demands for higher

pay.

The

labor

standoff ended

after

days

of intense

government

pressure,

including

threats

of

job

loss

and

even

arrest

to

strikers.

Meantime,

talks

with

a

second

group

of

nationwide strikers may soon be underway. The Indo-Asian News-

Service says India’s transport minister is ready

to discuss demands from truckers. Many across India have parked their rigs, calling for reduction in diesel and

tyre prices.

CNN News Item 3

政治：备受争议的安全港法案修正案获得通过

Lawmakers in Nebraska have approved a

big

change to the state’s controversial safe haven law

. Under the new measure, children older than 30 days can not b

e

dropped

off

at state

hospitals.

35

children, many

of

them,

preteens

or even

teenagers,

have

been

abandoned

in

hospitals since the original law took effect in July. State lawmakers say it was intended to prevent newborns from

being dumped in trash bins or even worse. The new law is expected to go into effect at midnight.

CNN News Item 4

政治：欧美担心伊朗建国会发生暴乱

The

nation

of

Iran

marking

a

milestone

later

on

this

week. On Thursday, the country will celebrate the anniversary of when it became an Islamic republic. This goes

back to 1979, when supporters of the Ayatollah Khomeini, a religious leader

, overthrew the country’s government.

Khomeini became the supreme leader of Iran, and the nation officially became an Islamic state. The United States

and the European Union are worried about potential violence during Thursday’s celebrations. U.S. and Euro

pean

Union

are

urging the

Middle

Eastern

nation

to

“end

its

abuses

against

its

own

people.”

Iranian

leaders have

denied any accusations that the government has abused citizens.

CNN News Item 5

政治：伊拉克全国选举投票结束

Iraqis

put

democracy

into

action

today

in

elections

held

across the country. The polls have closed and a vote-counting has begun. Voters went to 6,000 polling stations to

pick from among 14,000 candidates including 4,000 women. Security is very tight though, voters were searched

before they entered the polls. The borders with Iran and Syria were sealed and a curfew has been put into place.

Now even the United Nations was involved in monitoring those elections.

CNN News Item 6

政治：

伊朗前总统将参加六月份总统竞选

Iranian media reports former President Mohammad

Khatami

has

announced

he

will

run

in

the

June

presidential

elections.

T

oday’s

announcement

ends

weeks

of

speculation. Khatami is considered a reformist and overwhelmingly won the presidency in 1997 but h

e couldn’t

bring

about

religious

and

democratic

freedoms

because

of

strong

opposition

from

the

country’s

religious

establishment. Khatami was succeeded by current President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad four years ago.

CNN News Item 7

政治：奥巴马行程

Meanwhile

U.S.

President

Barack

Obama

is

taking

crisis

talks

to

an

international level. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is traveling to the United States on Monday to push for

global solutions to the economic crisis. He will be the first E.U. leader to meet the new president in Washington

and Mr. Obama will meet the remaining E.U. leaders at a special summit in Prague in April. That will be his first

trip to Europe since taking office. Also on that trip, the G20 summit on the economic crisis and a NATO meeting.

CNN News Item 8

政治：英国航空公司机舱服务员罢工计划

Strike is off, the judge says plans for a walkout by a

British Airway’s Cabin Crew cannot happen. As we reported yesterday, this strike which would have last through

the

holidays

could

have

effected

a

million

passengers’

holiday

t

ravel

plans.

But

the

judge

has

blocked

it

from

happening. Now the airline says it hopes the Cabin Crews Labor Union would take some time to think about its

next steps. The union representatives say this dispute is not over and unless the two sides can come

to a solution,

they could vote to strike again, but after Christmas.

CNN News Item 9

政治：泰国内乱

Heading

overseas

to

Thailand

where

grenade

attacks

in

the

capital

city

of

Bangkok have killed

at least three people. A

Thai official said the grenades came from an area where people who

were protesting the government were gathered together

. The protesters say they are not responsible. They have

been

fighting

with

police

for

a

while

here

you

can see them

throwing

rocks

and

other things

at

police.

They

support the country’s former prime minister and they want the current leader to leave office. After

these recent

attacks, Thailand’s prime minister called an emergency meeting to figure out how to deal with the situation.

CNN News Item 10

政治：

十字架纪念碑争议获最高法院裁定

U.S. Supreme Court says that a memorial out in

the Mojave Desert does not violate the U.S. Constitution. The memorial is a large cross. It was put up in 1934 to

honor fallen soldiers. But it’s located in a national park, and some people

argue that it’s a religious symbol that

goes against the concept of separation of church and state. The cross was boarded up because of the legal battle.

Y

esterday’s Supreme Court decision was close: 5 to 4. Writing for the majority, Justice Anthony Kenned

y said

that

this

cross

represents

“

far more

than religion.”

But

in

opposition,

Justice

John

Paul

Stevens

argued

the

government can’t lawfully endorse a religious symbol as a way to pay tribute to veterans.

CNN News Item 11

政治：三名美国人质关押五年后获自由

Freed

at

last

after five

years

in

captivity, three

Americans held hostage by leftist rebels in Colombia are back on U.S. soil and will be reunited with their families.

Marc

Gonsalves,

Thomas

Howes

and

Keith

Stansell

were

among

those

rescued

during

an

incredible

operation

yesterday. Columbian secret agents tricked leftist rebels into handing them over without a single shot being fired.

The men are now undergoing tests at an army medical center in San Antonio, T

exas.

CNN News Item 12

政治：奥巴马总统的医疗改革案阻力重重

Health care reform enters a new era in about

two hours. President Obama is scheduled to sign that bill into law

. Then, he is going to travel around the country

to sell the plan to skeptics. But Republicans say that battle is on to get ready for legal challenges, nearly a dozen

states

plan

to

argue

that

it’s

not

constitutional.

As early

as

tomorrow

,

the

debate moves to

the

Senate

where

lawmakers

will

consider

a

companion

measure,

and

Republicans

plan,

parliamentary

objections

that

could

change that bill and force it back to the House. Now

, even before the first votes were cast in the health care debate,

Barack Obama’s overall approval rating dropped to his lowest level ever recorded.

CNN News Item 13

政治：美国参议员和众议员本月会面商讨医改终案

Members

of

the

U.S.

Senate

and

House of Representatives will be meeting this month to put together a final health care reform bill. The Senate

passed

its

version

on

Christmas

Eve.

The

House

had

already

passed

its

bill.

But

there

are

some

pretty

big

differences between the two. One of them: cost. The Senate bill checks in at $$871 billion. The House version: Over

$$1

trillion.

Another

issue:

the

so- called

public

option,

a

government-run

health

insurance

program.

House

bill

includes it; S

enate bill doesn’t. So, some compromises need to be made to come up with a final bill. And since that

then has to be approved by both Houses of Congress, there are some concerns about whether it will pass.

CNN News Item 14

政治：津巴布韦总统遭遇国际压力

Another

day

of international

pressure

levied

against

Zimbabwe’s

embattled

President

Robert

Mugabe.

British

officials

have

announced

they

are

stripping

Robert

Mugabe’s honorary knighthood title. Nobel Prize winner Desmond T

utu is also speaki

ng out about the election

mess

there.

He’s urging

the

nations

of the

world

to

intervene.

The

calls

come

after

opposition

leader

Morgan

T

svangirai withdrew from the election, citing violence against his party. The Zimbabwean Electoral Commission

ruled today that the presidential election will go on as planned.

CNN News Item 15

政治：茶党出炉支持和反对的候选人名单

The

T

ea

Party

movement

is

getting ready

for

the mid-term elections coming up in November. The group has released a list of heroes and targets. The heroes on

the list are candidates that the T

ea Party plans to support in the elections. The targets are anyone that the group

would like to see voted out of office. Of course lists are not the only way that the T

ea Party gets its message out.

Rallies

are

the

group’s

bread

and

butter.

This

one

in

Washington

DC

yesterday

was

a

wrapping

up

of

a

three-week tour across the U.S. The timing? No coincidence. Y

esterday, of course, was tax day. And the group is

opposed to what it sees as the government overspending.

CNN News Item 16

政治：

奥巴马欲与伊朗冰释前嫌

T

oday marks the 30th anniversary of the Iranian hostage

crisis. And President Obama said that he wants to move beyond the past and build a relationship with Iran based

on

mutual

interest

and

mutual

respect.

U.S.-Iran

relations had

been

hostile

since

the

day

that

Islamic students

stormed the U.S. embassy in T

ehran and held 52 Americans hostage for more than 400 days. Iran’s government

holds

rally

every

year

to

celebrate

that

event.

T

oday

there’s

something

different

though,

anti

-government

protesters are also on the streets. We are also getting some reports of clashes with those police. No word about any

injury yet.

CNN News Item 17

政治：参议员考虑医疗保健立法的部分替代方案

Senators are considering alternatives to

part

of

their

healthcare

legislation,

specifically,

the

so-called

public

option,

government-run

health

insurance

program. Senate republicans and some democrats and independents are against that plan. A group of Democratic

Senators was working to come up with some other ideas they could

replace the public option. And late last night,

they said they had reached an agreement. If the Senate passes its healthcare bill, that does not make it law

, woul

d

still need to be combined with Health bill and then that final version would need to pass both the House and the

Senate.

CNN News Item 18

经济：施瓦辛格呼吁立法者关注加州财政赤字

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says he

refuses to

borrow

money

to keep

his

state

running,

he

wants

legislators

to focus

on the

state's

24

billion

dollar

deficit

or

the

state

could

be

forced

to

cut

thousands

of

jobs,

eliminate

health

care

for

a

million

low

income

children.

Meanwhile

lawmakers

are

debating

hundreds

of

other

bills

including

creating

a

state

blueberry

commission. Banning toy cigarette lighters and mandating a larger font size for medical worker name tags.

CNN News Item 19

经济：

丰田汽车公司感谢美交通部长对召回事件的澄清< /p>

Ray LaHood, the head of the U.S.

Transportation Department, is weighing in on T

oyota’s recall of millions of vehicles due to a faulty gas pedal. But

what

Mr.

LaHood

is

saying

might

be

causing

some

confusion.

During

a

hearing

on

Capitol

Hill

yesterday,

Secretary LaHood said that anyone who owns one of the cars affected by the recall should “stop driving it and

take it to a dealer.” That scared and frustrated a lot of owners, and later in the day, LaHood corrected himself.

T

oyota rele

ased a statement thanking Secretary LaHood for clarifying his remarks. They also said, “We want to

make sure that our customers understand that this situation is rare and generally does not occur suddenly. If you

experience

any

issues

with

your

accelerator

pedal,

please

contact

your

dealer

without

delay.

If

you

are

not

experiencing any issues with your pedal, we are confident that your vehicle is safe to drive.”

CNN News Item 20

经济：

油门事件让丰田汽车公司蒙 受损失

T

oyota says that a glitch in the electronic brakes

could c

ause a delay when you step on the pedal. They say it only affects 2010 models sold last year. And it’s those

very same cars that are being credited with T

oyota’s cash cow

. New numbers just out say they made $$1.7 billion

last quarter

, but it won’t last for long. For the first time, T

oyota is admitting it’s going to take a huge beating due

to this gas pedal nightmare. $$2 billion for repairs and lost sales.

CNN News Item 21

经济：美国国际集团发放高管奖金

AIG

is trying to prevent a new wave of backlash over

paying

out

bonuses

to

its

top

executives.

The

Washington

Post

reports

the

company

has

asked

the

Obama

Administration to approve millions of dollars in promised bonuses. The payments are s

cheduled to go out next

week. AIG

doesn’t actually need approval. Because the payments were linked to contracts from last year before

received

aid

from

the

federal

bailout

funds.

But

the

Post

reports executives still

are

reluctant to

pay

without

official approval. An earlier round of 2008 AIG

employee bonuses drew widespread criticism earlier this year

.

CNN News Item 22

经济：医疗保险改革方案之争

The raw politics of health is heating up in the Senate. Just

before

air

last

night,

Senate

Majority

Leader

Harry

Reid

announced

a

group

of

10

liberal

and

conservative

Democrats had reached a deal to replace the hotly debated public option with a package of alternatives. Senator

Reid

offered

few

details.

But

today,

President

Obama

praised

the emerging

compromise.

Now

,

the

public

plan

deal came just hours after the Senate killed a controversial amendment to restrict abortion coverage in its health

care bill to ensure that no federal funds go toward covering any kind of abortion in this new reform. Nebraska

Senator Ben Nelson had introduced that amendment. He called it a deal-

breaker

. He’s also one of the 10 senators

to hammer out the deal to drop the public plan.

CNN News Item 23

经济：欧洲一些国家经济前景堪忧

Over

in

Europe,

the

financial

outlook

for

a

few

countries isn’t looking too good. The investment ratings for Spain, Portugal and Greece all went down this week.

Greece might

be

the

worst

situation.

Exper

ts

are

using

the

word

“junk”

to

describe

that nation’s

investment

rating. Basically

, they’re saying that it’s very risky to put your money there. Greece has a massive debt, nearly

$$400

billion.

That’s

bigger than

the

country’s economy.

Greece

is

developing

ways

to

cut

spending,

but

Greek

workers aren’t too happy about some of those plans, and they’ve been protesting about it. Greece is also asking

for financial help from the European Union: a bailout of more than $$50 billion.

CNN News Item 24

经济：

新加坡经济前景黯淡

W

ell moving around to the East of Asia now

, Southeast of Asia,

a gloomy forecast out of Singapore. The government says its economy will likely shrink by between 6 and 9% this

year. The announcement comes as the city-

state’s first quarter GDP f

ell almost 12% from the, from a year ago. In

seasonally adjusted terms it was even more brutal than that actually. Singapore is reducing its output for the third

time

this

year,

as

demand

for

its

exports

continues

to

fall

amidst

a

worsening

financial

crisis.

It

previously

predicted just a 5% contraction for the full year.

CNN News Item 25

经济：九大金融机构将收到政府的资金援助

The

T

reasury

says

the

country’s

largest

banks will start receiving 125-billion dollars this week. Beginning the biggest government bailout in history, the

money is being sent to 9 major financial institutions including Bank of America,

Citigroup and JP Morgan chase.

The

government

is

also

in

talks

with

a

group

of more

than

a

dozen

regional

banks

about sharing

part

of

an

additional

125-billion

dollars.

T

reasury

Secretary

Henry

Paulson

says

250

of

the

700-billion-dollar

bailout

package will be spent by the end of the year.

CNN News Item 26

经济：

奥巴马就小企业贷款问题会见美国银行巨头

In the United States, President Obama

is scheduled to sit down today with the heads of some of the country’s biggest banks to talk about small businesses,

ones that have 500 or fewer employees. Many of them are having a hard time getting loans from banks. But banks

argue that the policies put in place because of this financial crisis have affected how they can offer the loans.

CNN News Item 27

经济：高盛集团新表现

Goldman

Sachs

surprised

investors

on

Monday

with

an

early

release

of

its

quarterly

profits,

which

were

way

better

than

analysts

had expected,

twice

as

good, in

terms

of

earnings per share. Now profits for the first 3 months of the year came into a total of $$1.81 billion. Goldman also

announced plans for a $$5 billion share sale to help back its, help pay back rather, its so called T

ARP loan from the

U.S. government. $$10 billion under the troubled assets relief program.

CNN News Item 28

经济：两党会面以解决

7000

亿美元救助法案的分歧

Lawmakers

say they’re

close

to a

deal

on

the

700-billion-dollar

package

to

rescue

the

troubled

financial

system.

A

bipartisan

group

has

been

meeting

today

to

hash

out

differences.

Democratic

Senator

Chuck

Schumer,

chairman

of

the

joint

economic

committee, says he hopes to reach a deal by this afternoon. Among the details being hammered out, how much the

plan

will

cost?

The

most

common

amount

being

talked

about

is

700-billion

dollars;

another key

point

in

the

negotiations is whether the government will actually become a shareholder in troubled companies. One part of the

plan that seems certain to become a law will be a provision to limit executive pay and bonuses at companies that

sell assets to the T

reasury

.

CNN News Item 29

经济：奥巴马就增加就业和拯救经济发表演讲

During

a

speech

yesterday,

President

Obama offered some ideas on how to create new jobs and help out the country’s economy. Offering tax breaks to

small

businesses,

expanding

some

of

the

government’s

stimulus

programs,

and

spending

mor

e

money

on

infrastructure

projects things

like

roads,

bridges

and

water systems.

The

thing

is,

all

of

that

costs money

and

that’s where the T

ARP comes in. That’s the T

roubled Asset Relief Program, the financial industry bailout passed

last year

. The bailout ended up not costing as much as expected and President Obama thinks the extra could be

used to help out in other ways.

CNN News Item 30

经济：欧佩克石油产量再减

OPEC is going ahead with another oil production cut. OPEC

has agreed to cut production by 2.2 million barrels a day. U.S. crude for January delivery dropped to just over 42

dollars

a

barrel

after

the

announcement.

Crude

oil

prices

have

dropped

nearly

70%

since

July.

OPEC

cut

production in September and October, but those cuts didn’t have much impact on prices.

CNN News Item 31

经济：美国克莱斯勒公司重组协议

Chrysler and Italian automaker Fiat has signed off on

a deal brokered by

Uncle Sam to become what’s k

nown as Chrysler Group. Fiat will initially take a 20 percent

stake. It

can’t take

a

majority

stake until the

new

Chrysler

pays

back

the

15.5

billion

dollars

it took

from

the

T

reasury Department. The UA

W holds a 55 percent stake, leaving an 8 percent stake for the U.S., 2 percent for

Canada. The Supreme Court cleared the way for the deal yesterday, after delaying the sale pending review of a

case brought by Indiana state pension

6

funds.

CNN News Item 32

经济：通用汽车公司面临危机

Major

concerns

now

about

the

U.S.

auto

industry,

these

numbers are just out, and T

oyota finally overtook GM as the world’s biggest automaker in terms of sales for all of

last year

. That’s a title GM has held for nearly eight decades. Even wor

se than that, a GM executive warns the

company will run out of cash by March 31st if it doesn’t get that second installment of government funds soon.

GM is supposed to get the five-billion installment within a matter of days.

CNN News Item 33

经济：对伯纳德

?

u40614X

道 夫的保释听证会今日取消

Some

new

developments

in

the

Wall Street investment fraud case, the bail hearing for Bernard Madoff has been canceled for today, meaning he

will remain free for the time being. Meantime, the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission

is criticizing

his own agency for failing to spot the investment scheme by former NASDAQ Chairman Bernard Madoff. SEC

Chairman Christopher Cox says there were many instances over a decade that should have been flagged.

CNN News Item 34

经济：美国三大汽车公司

CEO

办理贷款事宜

CEOs

from

Ford,

Chrysler

and

General

Motors

are

making

their

case

for

a

25-billion-dollar

emergency

loan.

They

want

Congress

to

tap

into

the

700-billion-dollar

Wall

Street

bailout

approved

last

month.

Many

Republican

critics

point

to

financial

mismana

gement

at the

Big

Three

and

argue

the

companies

don’t

deserve

any

help.

Most

Democrats

disagree,

saying the auto industry is too important to the overall economy to fail.

CNN News Item 35

经济：中美财长会晤中国北京

China is where U.S. T

reasury Secretary Timothy Geithner

was yesterday. During a week-long trip to Asia that he is taking, Secretary Geithner stopped over in Beijing and

meet with his Chinese counterpart. One issue they were expected to talk about was the value of the yuan; that’s

China’s currency. Some U.S.

officials claim that China is undervaluing the yuan; they’re accusing China of saying

that the yuan is worth less than what it should be. China denies that. This matters because the yuan and the dollar

are connected. And if the value of the yuan is down, it could encourage people to spend more on Chinese products

than on American ones.

CNN News Item 36

经济：

7870

亿美元的经济刺激法案之争将结束

The

battle

over

the

787-billion-dollar

stimulus bill officially ends after President’s Day. President Obama says he will sign the

bill into law in Denver On

T

uesday.

He

is

calling the

measure

“a

major

milestone

in

the recovery

of

the

U.S. economy.”

Administration

officials say the President wants to get away from the politics of Washington and sign the bill in an area hit hard

by the

recession. They say Denver is a place that will see the bill’s benefits in hiring workers.

CNN News Item 37

军事：一名重要的恐怖分子丧命

One

of

the

FBI’s

most

wanted terrorists is

dead. Imad

Mougniyeh was killed in an explosion in Syria this morning. Mougniyeh was a top Hezbollah commander

. He was

blamed

for several high-profile terrorist

acts

that

left

hundreds

of

Americans

and

Israelis

dead,

including

the

17-day

hijacking

of

a

TW

A

Flight

in

1985.

He

was

also

suspected

of

masterminding

the

attacks

on

the

U.S.

embassy and Marine barracks in Lebanon that killed more than 260 Americans in 1983.

CNN News Item 38

军事：伊朗进行为期三天的大规模军事演练

Moving

from

Thailand

to

the

Persian

Gulf

now

, where Iran is running a massive military drill expected to last three days. An Iranian official says the goal is

to show off the country’s military strength. It might look like a real battle what you are s

eeing here is just practice.

U.S. Navy says Iran has done this sort of thing in the past. This one is getting more attention because Iran talked

about it ahead of time.

CNN News Item 39

军事：奥巴马外政顾问出来辟谣

No commitment by President-elect Barack Obama on a

mi

ssile

defense

program in

Eastern

Europe.

That’s

according

to

a senior

Obama

advisor

.

The statement

comes

after

claims

on

the

Polish

president’s

website

—

The

two

had

a

call

on

the

matter

and

that

Obama

said

he

intended

to

continue

the

program.

Obama’s

seni

or

foreign

policy

advisor

denied

that

claim.

He

said

Obama

talked

with

the

Polish

president

about

continuing

military

and

political

cooperation

and

possibly

meeting

in

person some time soon.

CNN News Item 40

军事：胡德堡枪击受伤士兵获紫心勋章

Congress

considers

a

new

bill

that

would

make

some soldiers eligible for the Purple Heart. Representative John Carter introduced the new legislation yesterday.

The Fort Hood army post is located in his home district in T

exas. This bill is focused on the victims of the recent

shooting there. The Purple Heart first created in 1782 is given to any U.S. service member who is wounded and

killed while serving in action against an enemy or in a terrorist attack. Representative Carter says the Fort Hood

victims deserved the Purple Heart because he considers the shooting to be an enemy attack.

CNN News Item 41

军事：美国宣布停止制造新核武器

The

U.S.

government

says

it

will

stop

making

new

,

nuclear weapons, and it’s reconsidering what to do with the weapons that already exist. The announcement came

yesterday, two

days

before

President

Obama

is scheduled

to sign

a

treaty

with

Russia

that

would

reduce how

many nuclear weapons both countries have. It also comes one week before he hosts a global meeting on nuclear

security.

More than

40

countries

are expected

to

attend

that.

But

back

to

yesterday’s

announcement.

This

new

policy

would

stop

production

of

nuclear

weapons. It

would

also

invest

about

$$5

billion

in

extending

the

life

of

weapons

that

already

exist.

Seven

countries

are

officially

recognized

as

nuclear

powers,

meaning

they

have

nuclear weapons. But there are other countries that are suspected of trying to make them. U.S. officials hope this

change from America will encourage other countries

—

all countries

—

to

help

control

the

spread

of

nuclear

weapons.

U.S.

has

promised

not

to

use

its

own

nukes

against

anyone

who

does

that.

But

as

Defense

Secretary Robert Gates pointed out, that doesn’t mean retaliation is out of the question in every situation.

CNN News Item 42

军事：加沙遭遇四十年来最严重的人道主义危机

Gaza

is

facing

its

worst

humanitarian

crisis in more than 40 years. A new report by aid agencies and humanitarian groups says things haven’t been this

dismal

since Israel’s

1967

occupation. It says the Israeli

blockade

has

left more

t

han

one

million

Palestinians

isolated, dealing with poverty, dealing with unemployment, with little access to education and healthcare services.

It found water and sewage systems are on the verge of collapse. Israel blames the hardships on Hamas militants

who keep firing rockets into Israel.

CNN News Item 43

军事：美俄签署核武器削减条约

W

e are getting things started with ST

ART

. It stands for

Strategic Arms Reduction T

reaty. It’s an agreement between the United States and Russia for both countries to

reduce the number of nuclear weapons they have. President Obama also says i

t’s part of the effort to “reset” the

relationship between the two countries. Y

esterday, he and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev got together in the

Czech

Republic

to sign

off

on

ST

ART

.

The

agreement

cuts

the

number

of

nuclear

weapons

that

the

U.S.

and

Ru

ssia have by about a third. The White House is scheduled to hold a meeting on nuclear security next week. It’s

something that President Obama says affects the entire world.

CNN News Item 44

军事：伊朗炫耀其军事防御能力

Just how far will Iran push the international community

this

weekend?

W

ell

today, it

reportedly

tested

two types

of short-

range missiles

and

a

launching system. Iran’s

military freely admitted it was showing off its defense capabilities. And it planned to keep up the missile exercises

for 10 or 11 more days. In other news, the show-off force does come just days after words that Iran is building a

second uranium enrichment plant. These satellite images supposedly show the location by the city

of Qom. The

U.S. and its allies quickly condemned this project. And T

ehran says it’s just a civilian energy program, but U.S.

official

believed

it

was

a

cover for

developing

nuclear

weapons.

The Iranian say

they

will

allow

international

inspectors into the plants.

CNN News Item 45

军事：巴以冲突不停

There

is

no

letup

of Israel’s

assault

on

Gaza

and

Hamas’s

rocket

attacks into Israel.

The

fighting

has entered

a

third

week

with

mounting

casualties

on

both

sides. Israel says

Hamas

commander

in

charge

of

launching

rockets

into

Israel

from

Gaza

City

was killed

by

ground

fire.

Also

during

a

three-hour

lull

today

Israel

dropped

leaflets

warning

residence

to

evacuate

their

homes.

An

United

Stations

spokesman says

the

pausing fighting

was

not

longer enough

to

resume

aid

deliveries

into

Gaza.

The

humanitarian situation

there is

described

as

desperate

and

Palestinian

medical

sources say

at

least

800

people

have been killed in Gaza since Israeli offensive began. 13 Israelies including 10 soldiers have also died.

CNN News Item 46

军事：伊朗下月将进行大规模军事演习

A

holy

day

in

Iran

marked

by

violence

as

protesters

clashed

with

police

forces

about

a

week

ago.

Demonstrators

have

spoken

out

against

the

country’s

government for

months now

,

but the

clashes

on

the

Muslim holy

day

of

Ashura

were the

worst so

far.

At

least

seven people killed in the violence, though protesters and security forces disagree on how those deaths happened.

Meantime, Iran’s

government says

it’s

getting

ready to

hold

a

“large

-

scale

military exercise”

next

month.

The

country s

ays the goal is to prepare its forces to fight against an attack by the nation’s enemies. There’s been a lot

of tension based around Iran’s nuclear program. The country says the program is for peaceful purposes. Other

countries, including the U.S., believe Iran might be trying to build nuclear weapons.

CNN News Item 47

灾难：美国

25

年来最严重的矿难

Officials there are trying to figure out what caused the

worst U.S. mining disaster in 25 years. It happened Monday afternoon at the Upper Big Branch South Mine: a

massive blast inside the coal mine that killed at least 25 people, left 4 others trapped. Rescue workers are trying to

drill their way into the mine, but they need to get 1,200 feet down inside of it, and that could take a while. Not

only is the process slow

, it’s

dangerous. Crews are having to deal with potentially harmful gases. President Obama

and other officials, including both of West Virginia’s U.S. senators, have offered their thoughts and prayers to the

families

of

the

miners.

They’ve

also

said

they’re

dete

rmined

to

find

out

what

happened

and

how

it

can

b

e

prevented in the future. One government official said, “Miners should never have to sacrifice their lives for their

livelihood.” This all happened inside a facility that does what’s called longwall mining.

CNN News Item 48

灾难：大西洋中找到飞机残骸

Wreckages

have

been

found

in

the

Atlantic

Ocean

that

could have come from the Air France plane that disappeared yesterday. So far

, a drum, seats other items have

been found but it s not enough to make a confirmed connection to Flight 447. The

flight was headed from Rio d

e

Janeiro

to

Paris

when

it

encountered

turbulence

and

then

lost

radio

contact.

The

228

passengers

and

crew

onboard are presumed dead.

CNN News Item 49

灾难：加州警方证实已找到失事飞机残骸

Police in California confirm that search teams

have found the wreckage of the plane Steve Fossett was flying when he disappeared. The development comes a

day after a hiker found ID belonging to Fossett near Mammoth Lakes, California. National T

ransportation Safety

Board

investigators

arrived

in

California

shor

tly

after

authorities

confirmed

the

wreckage

is

Fossett’s

plane.

Police say it appears to have crashed head-

on into a mountain in the Sierra Nevadas. Fossett’s remains have not

been recovered.

CNN News Item 50

恐怖活动：

伊拉克政府谴责连环自杀性爆炸事件

The head of Iraq’s government says that

a series of suicide bombing is designed to create chaos in that country and prevent progress toward elections that

is scheduled for next year

. Prime Ministry Nuri Al-

Maliki called yesterday’s te

rrorist attacks cowardly. The five

explosions killed

more

than

125

people

and

injured

more

than

440

others.

The

bombings

all

took

place

within

minutes of each other T

uesday morning. They targeted several government buildings around the capital city of

Baghdad, as well as a neighborhood in a business district.

CNN News Item 51

恐怖活动：

美情报机构担心来自基地组织及网络的袭击

First up, the heads of several U.S.

intelligence agencies have the same outlook on the country’s security. During a Senate hearing on T

uesday, they

said that in the next three to six months, it is certain that there will be an atte

mpted terrorist attack on the U.S.

An

attempt, though,

doesn’t

mean

an

actual

attack. In fact,

the

CIA

director

used

the failed,

Christmas

Day

bombing plot as an example. None of the intelligence leaders, which included the FBI director and the director of

national

intelligence,

talked

about

a

specific

threat.

But

they

did

say

that

their

top

concern

is

al

Qaeda,

the

terrorist

group

connected

to

the

Christmas

Day

plot.

The

hearing

also

focused

on

cyber- security;

protecting

against

online

attacks.

Those

are seen

as

a

growing

threat,

and

one

that

the intelligence

community needs

to

address. The national intelligence director said that the U.S. is not prepared for the kinds of cyber attacks it could

face.

Senator

Dianne

Feinstein,

the

chairwoman

of the

committee

holding

the

hearing,

agreed

that

the

country

does need to develop an overall, cyber-security strategy.

CNN News Item 52

医学：

艾滋病新疫苗的功效

Researchers say a vaccine to prevent HIV infection is showing

some modest results. This one was done in Thailand, it was paid for by the U.S. army. What makes this vaccine

unique is that it requires two separate shots. The study followed more than 16,000 volunteers in Thailand over the

last three years.

CNN News Item 53

医学：美国完成首例大面积脸部移植手术

For

the

first

time

in

America

and

only

the

fourth

time

in the

world,

surgeons

have

performed

a

near-total face transplant.

The

operation

was

done this

month

by a team of eight surgeons at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. A spokeswoman said that 80% of the patient’s

face

was

transplanted.

A

French

woman

who

had

been

marred

by

her

dog

was

the

first

to

receive

such

a

transplant a few years ago. It carries the risk of rejection and patients have to take immune-suppressing drugs for

the rest of their lives.

CNN News Item 54

医学：

H1N1

流感

Mexico

says

it’s

winning

the

war

against

the

H1N1

virus,

President

Phillipe

Calderon says,

aggressive

government

action

helped

get

a

grip

on

the

outbreak, hundreds

of

patients

showing symptoms are being treated in isolation units, but, the health minister says the number of new cases is

declining so the shut down of Mexico City may ease soon, businesses there have lost $$100 million a day by some

estimates. Officials may also reopen schools across the country, but the government says it’s going to

be cautious.

World

Health

officials

are

stressing

that

you

cannot

get

H1N1

from

eating

pork,

but

that isn’t

stopping

Egypt

from killing all the country’s pigs, that’s lead to clashes between police and pig farmers. Farmers in Cairo battled

Government forces with stones and bottles. There were several injuries and more than a dozen arrests. Egypt is a

mostly Muslim country and most of the people there, therefore consider Pigs unclean. The number of confirmed

cases in the U.S. has jumped, but officials say,

that’s from catching up on a backlog of lab tests, the count now

stands at 226, with confirmed cases in 30 states.