美联社新闻一分钟 AP NEWS 2007-12-11

1. Investigators¹ are trying to establish whether two deadly shooting sprees at a megachurch and a school for missionaries² were carried out by the same man. Five people including a gunman were killed, and five wounded in separate shooting 65 miles apart.

2. Suspended Atlantic Falcon³ Michael Vick will spend 23 months behind bars on federal dogfighting charges. He still faces state dogfighting charges in Virginia that are punishable by up to five years in prison.

3. The National Weather Service says more snow and freezing rain are on the way for Nebraska. Ice storm warnings are up from Texas to Pennsylvania. As a storm system moves eastward⁴, Missouri's governor has declared a state of emergency and activated⁵ the National Guard.

4. The chances are you've never seen this. It's a long-eared jerboa, and this is the first-ever video of the rare rodent⁶. The resident of the deserts in Mongolia and China is endangered. With its oversized ears, one researcher calls the jerboa the Mickey Mouse of the desert.

1 investigators   

n.调查者，审查者( investigator的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
• The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 missionaries   

n.传教士( missionary的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Some missionaries came from England in the Qing Dynasty. 清朝时，从英国来了一些传教士。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The missionaries rebuked the natives for worshipping images. 传教士指责当地人崇拜偶像。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

3 falcon   

n.隼，猎鹰

参考例句：

• The falcon was twice his size with pouted feathers.鹰张开羽毛比两只鹰还大。
• The boys went hunting with their falcon.男孩子们带着猎鹰出去打猎了。

4 eastward   

adv.向东；adj.向东的；n.东方，东部

参考例句：

• The river here tends eastward.这条河从这里向东流。
• The crowd is heading eastward,believing that they can find gold there.人群正在向东移去，他们认为在那里可以找到黄金。

5 activated   

adj. 激活的 动词activate的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• The canister is filled with activated charcoal.蒸气回收罐中充满了活性炭。

6 rodent   

n.啮齿动物；adj.啮齿目的

参考例句：

• When there is a full moon,this nocturnal rodent is careful to stay in its burrow.月圆之夜，这种夜间活动的啮齿类动物会小心地呆在地洞里不出来。
• This small rodent can scoop out a long,narrow tunnel in a very short time.这种小啮齿动物能在很短的时间里挖出一条又长又窄的地道来。