美国有线新闻 CNN 2013-10-29
时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:CNN2013年(十)月
Today's edition of CNN Student News begins with 2 tragedies involving school violence. There are 7 schools in Danvers, Massachusetts. Yesterday, officials closed all of them. That happened after the body of Cling Rester, a math teacher at Danvers High School was found in the woods behind the school. A 14-year-old has been shot with the murder. Students described Rester as an excellent teacher who wanna to help anyone in any way she could. The school said Danvers woul feel this loss for many years. The news from Massachusetts came 2 days after a shooting in a middle school in Neveda. Authorities said a 12-year-old wounded. 2 students and shot and killed a teacher before killing 1 himself. Police official said the teacher, Mike L., appeared to be trying to stop this accident when he was shot. They described what he did as heroic, walking toward the shooter and giving other students the chance to get away. Many of your schools have plans of dealing 2 with violence. You might have practiced lockdown drills. Stories like these aren't easy to talk about. If you do wanna talk about school violence, there's a post on your blog for you to do that. Students 13 and older can go to cnnstudentnews.com. Teachers, we've also included questions in today's daily curriculum to help you address top topic like this in your classrooms.
"Is this legit? The US surgeon general runs the health and human services department? No, not true. The surgeon general is in the department but it's run by the health and human services secretary."
That position is part of the president's cabinet. Right now, it's filled by Kathleen Sebilius. She was nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the US Senate. But now, Secretary Sebilius is facing some tough criticism. As the head of the HHS department, she helps create an implement 3 the president's health policies that includes the affordable 4 care act, also known as Obamacare. In Monday show, we talked about some of the problems with the Obamacare website. CNN asked Secretary Sebilius about the plans to get it fixed 5.
"What can we tell people because I mean there's a ... there's a little bit loss of confidence in this. So, if you say as quickly as possible, that meant Oct 1st."
"Well, what we call tell you is that it isn't where it needs to be. We are 3 weeks into a 26th week open enrollment 6 period. People are enrolling 7 everyday. Not as many as we would like, not at the volume we like and we would keep working on it until it is working as efficiently 8 as possible."
"The president's legacy 9 is part of this whole issue as well. I mean has it been tarnished 10 by what has happened?"
"I think that what we need to do is... is see the enrollment figures at the end of Mar 11 2014. That's when open enrollment ends and what I know from what we see in not only states that are run by federal website but states around the country is that the interest is huge that people are eager to have this affordable product and that the product is there. Insurance companies have to compete for one another for people's business, for the first time."
- 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。
- This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
- His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。
- Don't undertake a project unless you can implement it.不要承担一项计划,除非你能完成这项计划。
- The best implement for digging a garden is a spade.在花园里挖土的最好工具是铁锹。
- The rent for the four-roomed house is affordable.四居室房屋的房租付得起。
- There are few affordable apartments in big cities.在大城市中没有几所公寓是便宜的。
- Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗?
- Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定,我们就不应该随意改变。
- You will be given a reading list at enrollment.注册时你会收到一份阅读书目。
- I just got the enrollment notice from Fudan University.我刚刚接到复旦大学的入学通知书。
- They lashed out at the university enrolling system. 他们猛烈抨击大学的招生制度。 来自辞典例句
- You're enrolling in a country club, Billy. 你是注册加入乡村俱乐部了,比利。 来自辞典例句
- The worker oils the machine to operate it more efficiently.工人给机器上油以使机器运转更有效。
- Local authorities have to learn to allocate resources efficiently.地方政府必须学会有效地分配资源。
- They are the most precious cultural legacy our forefathers left.它们是我们祖先留下来的最宝贵的文化遗产。
- He thinks the legacy is a gift from the Gods.他认为这笔遗产是天赐之物。