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
after-peak bulkhead
after-shave lotions
American Internation Law
amorphous memory
annual contribution
ANOPLOPOMATIDAE
atouchment
auxiliary foundation
be conspicuous for
bearing oil groove
binghampton
calculating puncher
car life
catalog overlay structure
cauldronsful
check multiple
comes near
comprehensive rationality
Conyza sumatrensis
Corpus nuclei caudati
country ham
course predictor
cutoff effect
delayed type hypersensitivity T lymphocyte
denouncements
dual-media filter
equipment rack alarm
Eschscholzia californica Cham.
ethylate
euroized
Every little bit helps.
Five Bellies
fracture of capitulum radii
Genals
gerardoes
gray background
gulphes
hairstyling
head gates
heat of vaporization
Heterogeneous Distributed Computing
hot-air engine
Ichāra
impulsive noise
inclinable magnetic chuck
inflatable dunnage
intermittent duty motor
isopiline
lamentful
leisurelily
light hanging
line interruption
line wrap
liquid cargo operations Simulator
lotion Hardy's
macrocausality
magnesium hydroxide
mail-order
main contract
microsystin
milk-and-honey
minute wheel seating
monaul
morning-noon-and-night
Moroccanising
mutual share transfer
nominal addendum
nuclei globiformes
Olshevsky tube
parallel pipe thread
passeest
personalized pricing
phrontistery
picea aurantiaca mast.
pineapple aldehyde
pipe hook
preferredly
promotional markdown
Ra's al 'Ayn
rami zygomaticotemporalis
reachouts
return promise
rootier
Savaneta
schicchi
scolloped
self conditioned power plant
silver alert
slow up
small hydro electric plant
Spotton
steady acceleration
stroma free hemoglobin
swinging weight
unalakleet
undersea nuclear power plant
underwater window
undreamable
Vanityhydrazone
vice-chairperson
virilisation
wheel fiddle