英语听力：澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2014-03-21

 The search will resume this morning for possible debris¹ from missing Malaysian Airlines flight 370. Satellites have captured images of two objects that could be wreckage² from the plane. Four aircraft and several ships are scouring³ a 23,000-square-kilometre area southwest of Perth. The initial search has been disappointing. The acting⁴ Prime Minister Warren Truss says more satellite images are being taken of the area. 

 

Prime Minister Tony Abbott will press Papua New Guinea to speed up the pro⁵...processing of asylum⁶ seekers being held on Manus Island. Mr.Abbott has arrived in Port Moresby for his first visit there since becoming prime minister. The two-day trip also focuses on improving economic ties between the two countries.

 

U.S.President Barack Obama has announced new sanctions targeting the Russian president's inner circle. He's also threatened to impose economic sanctions if there's any further increase of the crisis in Ukraine. Russia has retaliated⁷ by announcing its own sanctions on U.S. officials and politicians.

 

Gina Rinehart has sealed a milti-billion-dollar finance deal for her Roy Hill iron ore mine in Western Australia. The 7.2-billion-dollar deal is made up of loans and guarantees from five export credit agencies and 19 commercial banks, including Australia's big four. 

 

And militants⁸ have killed at least 11 people during a suicide attack and gun battle in Afghanistan. Two bombs were detonated before dawn at a police station in the city of Jalalabad in the country's east. Police responded along with NATO helicopter gunships in a fire fight that lasted for three hours.

1 debris   

n.瓦砾堆，废墟，碎片

参考例句：

• 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。

2 wreckage   

n.（失事飞机等的）残骸，破坏，毁坏

参考例句：

• They hauled him clear of the wreckage.他们把他从形骸中拖出来。
• New states were born out of the wreckage of old colonial empires.新生国家从老殖民帝国的废墟中诞生。

3 scouring   

擦[洗]净，冲刷，洗涤

参考例句：

• The police are scouring the countryside for the escaped prisoners. 警察正在搜索整个乡村以捉拿逃犯。
• This is called the scouring train in wool processing. 这被称为羊毛加工中的洗涤系列。

4 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

5 pro   

n.赞成，赞成的意见，赞成者

参考例句：

• The two debating teams argued the question pro and con.辩论的两组从赞成与反对两方面辩这一问题。
• Are you pro or con nuclear disarmament?你是赞成还是反对核裁军？

6 asylum   

n.避难所，庇护所，避难

参考例句：

• 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。

7 retaliated   

v.报复，反击( retaliate的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• When he once teased her for her inexperience, she retaliated. 有一次，他讥讽她没有经验，她便反唇相讥。 来自辞典例句
• The terrorists retaliated by killing three policemen. 恐怖分子以杀死三名警察相报复。 来自辞典例句

8 militants   

激进分子，好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
• Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。