美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2012-10-23_在线英语听力室

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1. With the next presidential debate Monday night, the vice-presidential candidates took center stage Saturday. Joe Biden was in Florida, urging people to take advantage of early voting and telling a crowd that Republican Mitt¹ Romney hasn't offer enough specifics about what he'd do in office.

2. GOP running mate Paul Ryan rallied people in Ohio, saying President Barack Obama would hurt coal workers. Both Romney and President Barack Obama are spending the weekend preparing for their final debate matchup.

3. Searchers have found the body of a young Oregon woman who vanished this week. Gresham police say they've arrested a neighbour in the death of the 21-year-old Whitney Heichel.

4. And these people heeded² the call to take a flying leap. They base jumped 876 feet off a bridge in west Virginia. The tradition of jumping from the New River Gorge³ Brige dates back to 1980.

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1 mitt
n.棒球手套，拳击手套，无指手套；vt.铐住，握手
参考例句：
I gave him a baseball mitt for his birthday.为祝贺他的生日，我送给他一只棒球手套。 Tom squeezed a mitt and a glove into the bag.汤姆把棒球手套和手套都塞进袋子里。

2 heeded
v.听某人的劝告，听从( heed的过去式和过去分词 )；变平，使（某物）变平( flatten的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句：
She countered that her advice had not been heeded. 她反驳说她的建议未被重视。来自《简明英汉词典》 I heeded my doctor's advice and stopped smoking. 我听从医生的劝告，把烟戒了。来自《简明英汉词典》

3 gorge
n.咽喉，胃，暴食，山峡；v.塞饱，狼吞虎咽地吃
参考例句：
East of the gorge leveled out.峡谷东面地势变得平坦起来。 It made my gorge rise to hear the news.这消息令我作呕。

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美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2012-10-23