美联社新闻一分钟 2006-01-25

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1. By week's end, Samuel Alito is expected to be on the US Supreme¹ Court. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 10-8 along party lines Tuesday to send his nomination² to the full Senate. That vote is expected by the end of the week.

2. A seven-year-old girl was shot at a Germantown Maryland day-care center Tuesday morning. Police say an eight-year-old boy had a gun in his backpack, and the girl was wounded when the gun went off accidentally.

3. A twin-engine business jet crashed and burst into flames near Carlsbad, California Airport Tuesday, killing³ all four people on board. The plane took off from an airport in Idaho, and was landing when it skidded⁴ off the end of the runway and hit a shack⁵.

4. They are the strangest bedfellows: a rat snake and a dwarf⁶ hamster, a pair that became fast friends at one Tokyo zoo. The hamster was originally intended to be dinner for the reptile⁷, but the four-foot snake decided⁸ to play nice and invited the furry⁹ creature to be his roommate. The hamster even climbs onto the snake's back to take naps

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. shack : noun [C]
a very simple and small building made from bits of wood, metal or other materials 小屋：简陋的小屋

2. bedfellow : noun [C]
a person connected with another in a particular activity: 伙伴，盟友
e.g. The priest and the politician made strange bedfellows in their campaign for peace.

3. hamster : noun [C]
a small furry animal with a short tail and large spaces in each side of its mouth which are used for storing food. It is often kept as a pet. 仓鼠

4. furry : adjective
covered with fur:
e.g. small furry animals