时间:2018-12-19 作者:英语课 分类:CNN2014年(三)月


英语课

 Happy to have you watch on this world wide Wednesday March 19, I am Carol Lerzu from cnn student news, first the maps on your class room wall and in your geography book may be changing, yesterday Russia president Putin signed a treaty that makes Crimea to be part of Russia, his actions followed Sunday vote in Crimea, Crimean residents overwhelmingly choosing fleet away from Ukraine and joining Russia, the Russia leader says he wont 1 put any pressure for any further division of Ukraine. But the move is unacceptable to the EU and the US, vice 2 president Joe Biden called Russia’s actions a land grab. the us and eu has put sanctions limiting the rights of certain Russia officials and threatening more sanctions against Russia over Ukraine.


 
12 years ago the US congress  signed a military review, trying to find out if the American troops who served in combat in decades ago might been passed over for the mental honor because they were Spanish or Jewish, the investigation 3 found 7 people including the Africa Americans who likely mood received the highest military decoration if not for their skin color, so yesterday in the white house president awarded 24 medals of honor most of them were people who were discriminated 4  and served in world war II, the Korea war and Vietnam, the president says their courage almost defines imagination,  21 of the medal were awarded passed away, for the three receiptiant were still alive it is the honor decades in the making. 
 
 
Tough time for the general motors, the maker 5 of Buick,Cadillac, Chevrolet and GMC is recalling more than 1 and half vehicles, it believe a flaw in the  xxx switch which has lead dozens of crashes and the death of at least 12 people, because this problem made date back years the recall were just issued last month, the company is being accused of dragging its fee in addressing the issue and a lot the heat is on the GM first female leader. She is the ceo center of the huge auto 6 safety nightmare, just two months on the job, Marry heading on GM massive xxx which recall and the stakes could be higher. this past lasting 7 she wants to have in her first TV just couple months on the job. GM is part of my blood, that is the first women in US to head a car company but she has climbing the GM ladder for over thirty years, Barral says she became aware of the safety issues in a few weeks ago and said the GM recall without hesitation 8, but GM own recorders show its engineers are aware of the problem earlier in 2004 the company said and quoted the cronolagy showed that the process employed to examine the phenomena 9  was not as a robot as she can, and for this reason Barrla 's long term insider status could pose a top spot, it is going to be difficult for her may be distance herself from this crisis because she can just come out and say well this was under someone else watch. Ending to Barral problem, a justice department and criminial probe  whether GM hide the evidance about defects upcoming hearing on capital hill as well as law suit from victims family and its shareholders 10. as toyota found out four years ago  during its mess recall unintended vihcle acceleration 11, ocngress like to go for the xxx , it shadowed me deeply that shames some where along the way public safety decreased the value as profit margins 12 soared, toyota shares tumbled during its crisis as did their reputation, GM investor 13 are clearly worry here falling more than 15 percent this year. Crisis management experts say the quicker barras beats out  the better , that the trical information that keeps coming the headlines, the company will be better off, getting all many of the facts out of the possibly carry to the transparency  has to get out there to the public. But some believe  GM layers might pour their cars close. the fact the company has announced the instititute is only investigation  means there are a lot of things trying to figure out, sure I think, 

1 wont
adj.习惯于;v.习惯;n.习惯
  • He was wont to say that children are lazy.他常常说小孩子们懒惰。
  • It is his wont to get up early.早起是他的习惯。
2 vice
n.坏事;恶习;[pl.]台钳,老虎钳;adj.副的
  • He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
  • They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
3 investigation
n.调查,调查研究
  • 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。
4 discriminated
分别,辨别,区分( discriminate的过去式和过去分词 ); 歧视,有差别地对待
  • His great size discriminated him from his followers. 他的宽广身材使他不同于他的部下。
  • Should be a person that has second liver virus discriminated against? 一个患有乙肝病毒的人是不是就应该被人歧视?
5 maker
n.制造者,制造商
  • He is a trouble maker,You must be distant with him.他是个捣蛋鬼,你不要跟他在一起。
  • A cabinet maker must be a master craftsman.家具木工必须是技艺高超的手艺人。
6 auto
n.(=automobile)(口语)汽车
  • Don't park your auto here.别把你的汽车停在这儿。
  • The auto industry has brought many people to Detroit.汽车工业把许多人吸引到了底特律。
7 lasting
adj.永久的,永恒的;vbl.持续,维持
  • The lasting war debased the value of the dollar.持久的战争使美元贬值。
  • We hope for a lasting settlement of all these troubles.我们希望这些纠纷能获得永久的解决。
8 hesitation
n.犹豫,踌躇
  • After a long hesitation, he told the truth at last.踌躇了半天,他终于直说了。
  • There was a certain hesitation in her manner.她的态度有些犹豫不决。
9 phenomena
n.现象
  • Ade couldn't relate the phenomena with any theory he knew.艾德无法用他所知道的任何理论来解释这种现象。
  • The object of these experiments was to find the connection,if any,between the two phenomena.这些实验的目的就是探索这两种现象之间的联系,如果存在着任何联系的话。
10 shareholders
n.股东( shareholder的名词复数 )
  • The meeting was attended by 90% of shareholders. 90%的股东出席了会议。
  • the company's fiduciary duty to its shareholders 公司对股东负有的受托责任
11 acceleration
n.加速,加速度
  • All spacemen must be able to bear acceleration.所有太空人都应能承受加速度。
  • He has also called for an acceleration of political reforms.他同时呼吁加快政治改革的步伐。
12 margins
边( margin的名词复数 ); 利润; 页边空白; 差数
  • They have always had to make do with relatively small profit margins. 他们不得不经常设法应付较少的利润额。
  • To create more space between the navigation items, add left and right margins to the links. 在每个项目间留更多的空隙,加左或者右的margins来定义链接。
13 investor
n.投资者,投资人
  • My nephew is a cautious investor.我侄子是个小心谨慎的投资者。
  • The investor believes that his investment will pay off handsomely soon.这个投资者相信他的投资不久会有相当大的收益。
学英语单词
A lot Much water has gone under the bridges since.
air conditioning condition
alpine chough
amortization of bond premium
analytically normal
area symbol
azoic zone
batter into
beguiler
bendy-boys
black paint soil amendment and mulch
blow sky - high
Bottom-board
breathing pattern
byssogenous
Calochortus albus
carrhotus xanthogramma
collected liability
conformal mapping
contardo
crockfords
dismasking
DPCM
echo resonator
effective modulation
euthalia insulae
face-centered cubic lattice system
false respect
FDIC Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
fetishisations
geniculum canalis facialis
GMST
go wet
half wavelength criterion
hamadahs
hattins
heating roller
High Hesket
impedanceprobe
independent producer
indeterminate truss
infra-red light
inline booster
kha
light partition
liquid substance in bulk
longispina
make an answer to
meat plasma
mind-altering drug
motivator
Muratorian
neobaicalein
Neosporidia
non repaired item
octadecanoyl
operator name
overeat
pacific place
paramorphine
phnendoskiascope
plate-gauge
polymodal
polyopia
pretty-pretty
radio bearing position line
randomized response model
re-epitomize
reciprocal base vector
reduction process
reinscribe
roaringly
roller locker machine
round section joint ring
Rubus simplex
salting period
self-pubbing
ship subpermanent magnetism
short straw sieve
sialoliths
silicon contraceptive ring
sords
spiral type
station compound
strong point
substantia adamantina
system planner
thallium carbonate
tid (technical information division)
transcription termination region
tyonek
tyrosine
Ulmus laevis
unprotected site
untraduced
uprating project
upstream slope of dam
wairua
Wajh
wartime lighting restriction
widdleing
zoogleas