| 美联社新闻一分钟 2007-07-13 |
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1. A Bush administration report says the Iraqi government has made mixed progress in fulfilling political, economic and military goals. The president says he is still committed to succeeding in Iraq. A full progress report on Iraq is expected in September.
2. Pakistan's president is vowing to crush Islamic extremists like the ones behind an eight-day siege at Islamabad's Red Mosque. More than a hundred people were killed during the siege.
3. Federal officials say a plane that crashed in a Florida neighborhood was not prepared to land. The plane crashed Tuesday near Orlando, killing five people and destroying two homes. Investigators say they still don't have an exact cause for the crash.
4. Roy Pearson just won't take "no" for an answer. Pearson is asking a judge to reconsider the 54-million-dollar lawsuit he filed against a dry cleaner he says lost a pair of his pants. A judge threw out the original lawsuit.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. fulfill: transitive verb (fulfil British English;fulfill American English)
if you fulfil a hope, wish, or aim, you achieve the thing that you hoped for, wished for etc
2. committed : adjective
willing to work very hard at something
3. vow: transitive verb
to make a serious promise to yourself or someone else [= promise]
4. siege : countable or uncountable noun
a situation in which an army or the police surround a place and try to gain control of it or force someone to come out of it
5. lawsuit: countable noun
a problem or complaint that a person or organization brings to a court of law to be settled [= suit]
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