时间:2018-12-24 作者:英语课 分类:CNN2012年(十)月


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 Kaila, Blake, Tyler and dozens more of you on our Facebook page said the NFL needs to get the real referees 1 back. Done. A crew of regular officials, one with 70 combined seasons of experience, were set to work last night’s Browns-Ravens game. That happened after the league temporarily lifted its lockout against the officials. The lockout started when the NFL and its referees couldn’t agree on the terms of a new contract. The league hired replacement 2 refs from lower levels of college football and high school. The replacements 3 were criticized for mistakes and blown calls, and then on Monday night, on the last play of the game, two refs made opposite calls in the in-zone. One said touchdown the other interception 4. 48 hours later the NFL reached a deal with the regular officials. It still has to be approved. When it is, that’s when the lockout will officially be over.


The Untied 5 Nations General Assembly, it’s going on all week at the UN headquarters in New York City. The assembly has heard speeches from some of the leaders of the 193 countries that are members of the U.N.
This isn’t one of those leaders, but he wants to be. It’s Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority. Right now, Palestinians are considered a permanent observer at the UN. The group is hoping to eventually become a full member, but in order to do that, Palestine would have to be recognized as an independent country. That’s something President Abbas says Israel isn’t willing to do. That’s part of the conflict between Palestinians and Israel. This is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He spoke 6 at the UN yesterday too, after President Abbas’s speech. He said the two sides need to sit down and negotiate together in order to solve their differences. But he said part of that negotiation 7 would be for Palestinians to recognize Israel as a legitimate 8 nation.
See if you can ID me. I’m a process of giving off energy in waves or particles. I’m used in some medical treatments, and I’m also transmitted by microwaves, TVs and radios. I’m radiation. From a Latin word that means "beam of light."
Cell phones give off radiation as well. You might have heard some questions or maybe you have some of your own, about how safe it is to hold one of these things up next to your head when it’s giving off these energy waves, when it’s giving off radiation. And so far, studies haven’t shown a consistent link between cell phones and cancer. But Dr. Sanjay Gupta runs through some of the reasons why people are concerned about this, and he offers some tips on how to cut down on these energy waves.
We’ve only been using cell phones regularly in this country since 1996, and that’s important because research takes time. It can take decades to actually get answers, so when you hear that we know that they are 100 percent safe, we actually don’t know.
We’re talking about something known as non-ionizing radiation. That’s different than what comes out of a an X-ray machine, for example, which is ionizing radiation.
What allowed the scientists will use to describe it, they are saying it’s sort of causes a heating up of the brain, much like an egg, for example, that’s being cooked. So we don’t know how long it takes to actually get those effects, but we know people use their cell phones more than ever; we know that they start at a very young age, and some people keep some source of radiation next to their brain all day long. So that’s part of the concern as well.
Most people, including myself, don’t always read the inserts that come with the devices. But if you were to, on a BlackBerry Bold, for example, you’d find that it actually tells you in the manual to keep this about an inch, .89 inches away from your head. I don’t know how many people talk on the phone like this, but that’s essentially 9 what they are asking you to do. With an iPhone, for example, it’s .58 of an inch.
So if you read those manuals closely, you’ll see that that’s what they are asking you to do, and it’s also part of the reason that they give you earpieces to wear instead of holding the phone to your ear.
Your phone is not always emitting the same level. In those really tough times, when you are really struggling with your phone, which I do all the time, you are in a bad cell area, you are not getting good reception, your phone is actually working harder. It sends signals back and forth 10 to the nearest tower, but if your phone is not working well, it means it’s sending more of those signals, more of that energy and more of that radiation. Those are good times to put the phone away.
It does appear that children’s brains are more vulnerable. Their skulls 11 are just thinner. So when you talk about the radiation, it’s easier to get through, because of those thin sculls. And also, keep in mind, that most of us didn’t use cell phones until we were already adults. We didn’t have this technology as kids. They are going to grow up their entire lives with it.
Simply use an earpiece. I mean all the research, all the science is pointing that way, and while we don’t know enough yet, you don’t want to find out 15, 20 years from now, in fact, there was a cancer link, and you didn’t do anything about it. The solution is simple.

1 referees
n.裁判员( referee的名词复数 );证明人;公断人;(专业性强的文章的)审阅人
  • The fiery player has had numerous run-ins with referees. 这位脾气暴躁的队员曾和裁判员发生过无数次争吵。
  • If you want to appeal, the Court of Referees will decide. 如果你要上诉,可以由仲裁法庭去判决。 来自辞典例句
2 replacement
n.取代,替换,交换;替代品,代用品
  • We are hard put to find a replacement for our assistant.我们很难找到一个人来代替我们的助手。
  • They put all the students through the replacement examination.他们让所有的学生参加分班考试。
3 replacements
n.代替( replacement的名词复数 );替换的人[物];替代品;归还
  • They infiltrated behind the lines so as to annoy the emery replacements. 他们渗透敌后以便骚扰敌军的调度。 来自辞典例句
  • For oil replacements, cheap suddenly looks less of a problem. 对于石油的替代品来说,价格变得无足轻重了。 来自互联网
4 interception
n.拦截;截击;截取;截住,截断;窃听
  • Aerial photography can provide valuable information on precipitation, evapotraspiration, interception, and runoff. 航空摄影可提供有关降水量、蒸发蒸腾量、入渗和径流量的有价值的资料。
  • Light interception and distribution in hedgerow orchards with different alleyway widths is indicated in Fig. 56. 图56显示篱壁果园不同行间宽度的光能截取和分配的情况。
5 untied
松开,解开( untie的过去式和过去分词 ); 解除,使自由; 解决
  • Once untied, we common people are able to conquer nature, too. 只要团结起来,我们老百姓也能移山倒海。
  • He untied the ropes. 他解开了绳子。
6 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
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
7 negotiation
n.谈判,协商
  • They closed the deal in sugar after a week of negotiation.经过一星期的谈判,他们的食糖生意成交了。
  • The negotiation dragged on until July.谈判一直拖到7月份。
8 legitimate
adj.合法的,合理的,合乎逻辑的;v.使合法
  • Sickness is a legitimate reason for asking for leave.生病是请假的一个正当的理由。
  • That's a perfectly legitimate fear.怀有这种恐惧完全在情理之中。
9 essentially
adv.本质上,实质上,基本上
  • Really great men are essentially modest.真正的伟人大都很谦虚。
  • She is an essentially selfish person.她本质上是个自私自利的人。
10 forth
adv.向前;向外,往外
  • The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
  • He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。
11 skulls
颅骨( skull的名词复数 ); 脑袋; 脑子; 脑瓜
  • One of the women's skulls found exceeds in capacity that of the average man of today. 现已发现的女性颅骨中,其中有一个的脑容量超过了今天的普通男子。
  • We could make a whole plain white with skulls in the moonlight! 我们便能令月光下的平原变白,遍布白色的骷髅!
学英语单词
?-subunit
Acanthephippium sinense
amilorides
analytical geometry of space
Association of Oil Pipe Lines
at the furthest
automobilists
balanced incomplete type
Bartica
beautiness
bocion
bockwurst sausage
brownell
build up to
calorimotor
carrottop
caveator
continuity coefficient
core cavitation
correction and compensation device
counterextortion
cultural diffusions
Dactyloctenium aegyptium
Dazoxibin
DBMS drivers
dead water zone
dialling tones
dietary antigen
diguanidinobutanase
eclipsing star
Elliont type knuckle
equilibrium, temperature
erythrocythaemic
fdp management science
fruitshop
gear in train
grey-back
high quartz solid solution
hooking pass
Hungarian grass
incendiary leaf
incumbent upon
India lawn
iridium sulfite
j-invariant of elliptic curve
kulm
laid siege
lift distribution
low-order
major first face
meadow ferns
mid-latitudes
midget
multicolor emission
multident
multiviscosity oil
Ngoc My
non-independent accounting unit
nonweekly
objective force level
Okawville
P-T region
Pedicularis dolichoglossa
photoactive reaction
pipe valve tray
pointwise ergodic theorem
prolific writer
quinonyl
quotation board
rapid scanning spectrometer
rational form
reinforcement bending shed
remines
repressibility
riveros
Sena, R.
send back system
send sb into bankrupt
side toppling
startscummers
stiede
Stiegel, Henry William
stove drying
stress in beam
suirs
swab man
sweat over sth
swept
tabards
Take someone to the woodshed
Terezinha
theory of matrices
thiofuradene
tropical automatic weather station
tropicalist
tulie
ultrasonic cell disintegration
unirrigated soil
unlight
vieulence alteration
wage drift
wave length-ship length ratio