CNN 美国有线新闻 2014-09-22-英语课

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Today on CNN student news, the last space shuttle launched in 2011 was a blast from the past. We'll tell you NASA will look for the future of space exploration. First of those, we take California where fire fighters are recently containing wild fires that are scorching 1 part of the Sate 2. About 60 miles east of Sacromeno, an eldorado national forest, one fire has churned up about 8600 acres by yesterday afternoon. That's like 8600 football fields. And it was only 5% contained when we produce the show. Thousands of people had to evacuate 3 their homes. And this is only one of almost a dozen different fires that were fueled by the state story drought. California seized a lot of wild fires. It has a wild fire season that runs from mainly October. But Cowfires says this one is on track to be the most destructive season ever. A heat wave that settled over California this week isn't helping 4.

Jumping cross country to a land, Geogias, headquarters of the centers for disease control and prevention and it's where Presedent Obama spoke 5 yesterday about Ebola. Several nations in the west Africa are losing their fight against it. There are more people with suspected Ebola than there are hospital beds to treat them. The US has committed 100 million dollors to efforts to help stop the fever from spreading. Yesterday the President asked Congress to approve additional 88mln. It will be used to build trip centers in west Africa, and send more American medical workers to affected 6 regions. Obama administration officials say as many as 3000 additional US troops could be sent to west Africa as well. The U.N. says Ebola could become a major humanitarian 7 crisis.

NASA, the national aeronautics 8 space administration, is calling taxi. Its space shuttle program might be invented 3 years ago, but it's using some of the tax-payer funding gaits to pay private companies to invent space taxies. Vehicles that could potentially get Americans to the International space station may be beyond. The launch from Florida can be space station starting in 2017. So who will be making them?

A major mouth has in mind. A new private vasaries. Bona has warned a majority of mass commercial coupon 9 contract to a space shuttle.

Buliding CSTEEN100 will favor American astronauts back and forth 10 to the international space issue. This is a big deal since NASA cancel the shuttle program in 2017. We have to rely on Russia to get our astronauts into space. Seats on the Russian Soruse Capsule cost over 17mln $ each. Now actually be signed CSteen100 designed for safety.

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Boinbida, two other private companies to win this contract, seeavada and elonmaSpace X which one the smaller contract to developing alternative deborns capsule, the dragon. NASA turn to the private sector 11 to reduce the cost and risk in the long and short term. That set off a new private space race, and ne announce marks a big win for bowing. Both beneficiaries told me they believe the industry could be worth 20bln $ over the next 20 years.

1 scorching

adj. 灼热的

a scorching, pitiless sun 灼热的骄阳
a scorching critique of the government's economic policy 对政府经济政策的严厉批评

2 sate

v.使充分满足

Nothing could sate the careerist's greed for power.什么也满足不了这个野心家的权力欲。
I am sate with opera after listening to it for a whole weekend.听了整整一个周末的歌剧，我觉得腻了。

3 evacuate

v.遣送；搬空；抽出；排泄；大(小)便

We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵！
They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。

4 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。

5 spoke

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说