美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2013-07-14_在线英语听力室

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Boston Bombing suspect Jahar Tsarnaev arrived at his first pubilc court hearing since his arrest days after the April 15th attack. Survivors¹ and family members of the victims were in the courtroom while spectators crowded outside.

A landslide² triggered by heavy rain and winds in western China has buried up to 40 people. Rescue efforts are still underway and some areas are experiencing the worst flooding in 50 years.

"I think he did something wrong." The head of the rail company responsible for the train explosion in Quebec toured the damaged area, a day after police said they are pursuing a criminial investigation³ into the incident that killed 15 people, Edward Burkhardt blamed an employee for not setting the brakes properly.

Police in Michigan are trying to identify the driver who backed his car into a woman pushing a stroller, dragging it for a short distance before fleeing. Miraculously⁴, neither the woman nor the toddler were seriously injuried.

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1 survivors
幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )
参考例句：
The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。 survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者

2 landslide
n.(竞选中)压倒多数的选票；一面倒的胜利
参考例句：
Our candidate is predicated to win by a landslide.我们的候选人被预言将以绝对优势取胜。 An electoral landslide put the Labour Party into power in 1945.1945年工党以压倒多数的胜利当选执政。

3 investigation
n.调查，调查研究
参考例句：
In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。 He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

4 miraculously
ad.奇迹般地
参考例句：
He had been miraculously saved from almost certain death. 他奇迹般地从死亡线上获救。 A schoolboy miraculously survived a 25 000-volt electric shock. 一名男学生在遭受2.5 万伏的电击后奇迹般地活了下来。

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美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2013-07-14