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1. Officers spent a second day hunting for a missing six-year-old girl in Tucson. Isabel Mercedes Celis vanished from her home during the night. Police are calling the case possibly a kidnapping.

2. The basement of a building in New York SoHo neighborhood continues to be a hive of activity as investigators¹ look for any clues in the 1979 disappearance² of the six-year-old boy. FBI officials around the scene Sunday looking for any traces of Etan Patz. They've been digging up the floor and removing drywall for days.

3. Official partial results show Socialist³ Francois Hollande and Conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy are advancing to the runoff of France's Presidential elections. A Hollande victory could alter the European political landscape.

4. And researchers are trying to learn what they can about a disease that's killed nearly seven million bats in the last five years. White-nose syndrome⁴ is the culprit but scientists don’t know a lot about it.

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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 disappearance
n.消失，消散，失踪
参考例句：
He was hard put to it to explain her disappearance.他难以说明她为什么不见了。 Her disappearance gave rise to the wildest rumours.她失踪一事引起了各种流言蜚语。

3 socialist
n.社会主义者；adj.社会主义的
参考例句：
China is a socialist country,and a developing country as well.中国是一个社会主义国家，也是一个发展中国家。 His father was an ardent socialist.他父亲是一个热情的社会主义者。

4 syndrome
n.综合病症；并存特性
参考例句：
The Institute says that an unidentified virus is to blame for the syndrome. 该研究所表示,引起这种综合症的是一种尚未确认的病毒。 Results indicated that 11 fetuses had Down syndrome. 结果表明有11个胎儿患有唐氏综合征。