美联社新闻一分钟 2006-08-05

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1. Phoenix¹ police have charged two men in a serial² murder case that's claimed six lives and frustrated³ investigators⁴ for more than a year. The suspects were arrested late Thursday night. The mayor calls them "monsters". Police say they're confident the two are behind the serial shootings.

2. Officials at a Syrian hospital say at least twenty-eight people were killed Friday when four Israeli missiles slammed into a warehouse⁵ where farm workers were loading vegetables near the Lebanon-Syrian border. Hezbollah attacks killed at least four today.

3. An earthen dam just across the Mexican border is threatening to send up to six million gallons of water rushing toward El Paso. Nearly one thousand people are taking shelter in the rain-soaked Texas City.

4. And in a small town near Charlotte, North Carolina, drivers got a massive break in gas prices. They lined up Thursday for miles to pay just a dollar twenty-two a gallon. A candidate for Congress trying to drive his campaign message home made up the difference

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. behind: prep.
The people, reason, or events behind a situation are the causes of it or are responsible for it..
=save

2. earthen: adj.
An earthen floor, bank, or mound⁶ is made of hard earth..

3. line up: phrase
If people line up or if you line them up, they move so that they are standing⁷ in a line.

4. drive: verb
Here drive means to carry through vigorously to a conclusion:
达成:精辟地说明并达成结论

5. difference: n
Here difference means the amount by which one quantity is greater or less than another.
差额: 一个数在数量上多于或少于一个数的数值