时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:澳洲ABC新闻快递2010年


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An audience of undecided voters has declared Tony Abbott the winner over Julia Gillard at a public forum 1 in western Sydney last night. The Prime Minister and the Opposition 2 Leader field questions from about 200 voters at the Rooty Hill RSL Club. Julia Gillard was asked a number of questions about the ousting 3 of Kevin Rudd and the general issue of trust, while Mr Abbott was grilled 4 on his broadband plan.


The United Nations has launched an appeal for half a billion dollars to help victims of Pakistan's flood disaster. More than 14 million people have been affected 5 by the floods and more than 1,100 have died.


The official death toll 6 from mudslides in China has risen above 1,100. In western Gansu province, 700 more are missing, buried in debris 7 caused by the mudslides. Ten thousand rescue workers are now searching for survivors 8.


The first person to be extradited from Indonesia to Australia to face people smuggling 9 charges, has been found guilty by a Perth court. Thirty-five-year-old Hadi Ahmadi was found guilty of helping 10 two boats travel from Indonesia to Christmas Island in 2001. The boats were carrying 550 asylum 11 seekers.


And the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare says the nation is spending an increasing amount to help people with mental health concerns. A report from the Institute shows national spending on mental health services between 2007 to 2008 was nearly six billion dollars. Governments bear 96 per cent of the cost, with private health funds paying the rest.



1 forum
n.论坛,讨论会
  • They're holding a forum on new ways of teaching history.他们正在举行历史教学讨论会。
  • The organisation would provide a forum where problems could be discussed.这个组织将提供一个可以讨论问题的平台。
2 opposition
n.反对,敌对
  • The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
  • The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
3 ousting
驱逐( oust的现在分词 ); 革职; 罢黜; 剥夺
  • The resulting financial chaos led to the ousting of Bristol-Myers' s boss. 随后引发的财政混乱导致了百时美施贵宝的总裁下台。
  • The ousting of the president has drawn widespread criticism across Latin America and the wider world. 洪都拉斯总统被驱逐时间引起拉丁美洲甚至全世界的广泛批评。
4 grilled
adj.不自然的,假装的
  • 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。
5 toll
n.过路(桥)费;损失,伤亡人数;v.敲(钟)
  • The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
  • The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
6 debris
n.瓦砾堆,废墟,碎片
  • After the bombing there was a lot of debris everywhere.轰炸之后到处瓦砾成堆。
  • Bacteria sticks to food debris in the teeth,causing decay.细菌附着在牙缝中的食物残渣上,导致蛀牙。
7 survivors
幸存者,残存者,生还者( survivor的名词复数 )
  • The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
  • survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者
8 smuggling
n.走私
  • Some claimed that the docker's union fronted for the smuggling ring.某些人声称码头工人工会是走私集团的掩护所。
  • The evidence pointed to the existence of an international smuggling network.证据表明很可能有一个国际走私网络存在。
9 helping
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
10 asylum
n.避难所,庇护所,避难
  • The people ask for political asylum.人们请求政治避难。
  • Having sought asylum in the West for many years,they were eventually granted it.他们最终获得了在西方寻求多年的避难权。
学英语单词
a cracker
accountingreport
adecticous pupa
amoralists
asphalt concrete flooring
at half cost
Aucklandia and Coptis Pill
b-tests
beat up on
Birger Magnusson
blue-form return
bonable
charanga
chlorimetrical
closet case
counter-planning
counterhegemonic
crown of the beet
cruciate ligament of leg
current taxable year
cytoreductions
damasine
dinoceratan
divisional
dramatizer
drimyl
dynamic scheduling simulator
E.H.V.
edtv
excocted
external irradiation protection
familar
file name generation
fine-screen halftone
fluid-bed catalytic cracker
gafa
geothermal flux density
gland tubes
gold shell inlay
Grasbeck
harbour-fronts
holarchies
Hook's
hydrogen scale of temperature
hydrophanes
incloser
intragenic mutation
introspectively
jug ears
jutia
lease rental
lipoamino
lusia
machine welding torch
maintenance funds
maranello
mark control
maximum adiabatic combustion temperature
melanocytoepidermal
metastereotype
microdistillation tube
Mirola
mosquetoe
multiresource
nonadd function
oar swivel
Paluan
particracy
passing place
passive matrices
peril of sea
phthalodinitrile
pokomoke
pslra
recreate
relativistic synchrotron instability
Rimariki I.
rudaceous sediment
rushmoors
sal alembroth
shore dotterel
shugged
smooth planes
spinning song
spirit lamp
stephanandra incisa(thunb.)zabel
subdeacons
supersink
suppressest
tapioca snow
the fifties
three-wheel roller
tigr-
tilting fillet
topological subspace
tuberculous gumma
Uncle Jeff
unimer
uveal framework
Vancouverish
x-chromosome
yellow paper daisies