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From the steps of Lincoln Memorial, conservative broadcaster Glenn Beck told the tens of thousands of people gather for his rally that the US has too long wandered in darkness. Speaker Sarah Palin praised patriots¹ to audience for knowing never to retreat. The two champions of the tea party movement spoke² from the very spot where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech 47 years ago.

Not far from the Lincoln Memorial gathering³, civil right leaders held a rival rally, marching more than 3 miles from a high school to the side of a planned Martin Luther King Memorial near the Tidal Basin.

Paris Hilton was arrested on the Las Vegas trip Friday night on drug charges. The authority said a police officer allegedly found a small amount of cocaine⁴ from her purse.

A Venezuelan politician is holding an unusual raffle⁵ to raise campaign cash. The grand prize: breast implants⁶. For a little under 6 dollars a ticket, donor⁷ was given the chance to win the pricy operation free of charge. Breast enlargement is widely popular in Venezuelan.

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1 patriots
爱国者，爱国主义者( patriot的名词复数 )
参考例句：
Abraham Lincoln was a fine type of the American patriots. 亚伯拉罕·林肯是美国爱国者的优秀典型。 These patriots would fight to death before they surrendered. 这些爱国者宁愿战斗到死，也不愿投降。

2 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
参考例句：
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。

3 gathering
n.集会，聚会，聚集
参考例句：
He called on Mr. White to speak at the gathering.他请怀特先生在集会上讲话。 He is on the wing gathering material for his novels.他正忙于为他的小说收集资料。

4 cocaine
n.可卡因，古柯碱（用作局部麻醉剂）
参考例句：
That young man is a cocaine addict.那个年轻人吸食可卡因成瘾。 Don't have cocaine abusively.不可滥服古柯碱。

5 raffle
n.废物，垃圾，抽奖售卖；v.以抽彩出售
参考例句：
The money was raised by the sale of raffle tickets.这笔款子是通过出售购物彩券筹集的。 He won a car in the raffle.他在兑奖售物活动中赢得了一辆汽车。

6 implants
n.（植入身体中的）移植物( implant的名词复数 )
参考例句：
Hormone implants are used as growth boosters. 激素植入物被用作生长辅助剂。来自《简明英汉词典》 Perhaps the most far-reaching project is an initiative called Living Implants From Engineering (LIFE). 也许最具深远意义的项目，是刚刚启动的建造活体移植工程 (LIFE)。来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 医学的第四次革命

7 donor
n.捐献者；赠送人；(组织、器官等的)供体
参考例句：
In these cases,the recipient usually takes care of the donor afterwards.在这类情况下，接受捐献者以后通常会照顾捐赠者。 The Doctor transplanted the donor's heart to Mike's chest cavity.医生将捐赠者的心脏移植进麦克的胸腔。