美联社新闻一分钟 2007-06-07

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1. There is a TB talk on the Hill. Two committees probe the case of Andrew Speaker, an Atlanta lawyer who crossed international borders with a rare drug resistance strain of tuberculosis¹. "I was also told I was not contagious². I was told I was not a threat to anyone. I was told there was no need to sequester³ me."

2. A Vatican spokesman says the man who tried to jump onto the Pope mobile showed signs of mental imbalance. Earlier today the man vaulted⁵ over a barricade⁶ and grabbed down to the vehicle for a few seconds.

3. The parents of the missing Kansas teenager say they don't recognize the man shown in the surveillance video taken at a Target Store. He is shown leaving the store moments before 18-year-old Kelsey Smith's abduction.

4. An animated⁸ Olympics logo has been removed from its official website after complaints it triggered epileptic seizures¹⁰. The 800,000-dollar London 2012 animation¹¹ is now slated¹³ for a reedit.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. strain: N-COUNT usu N of n
A strain of a germ, plant, or other organism is a particular type of it.

2. contagious: ADJ
A disease that is contagious can be caught by touching¹⁴ people or things that are infected with it.

3. sequester: VERB be V-ed
If someone is sequestered¹⁵ somewhere, they are isolated¹⁶ from other people. (FORMAL)

4. Pope: N-COUNT usu the N; N-TITLE
The Pope is the head of the Roman Catholic Church.

5. vault⁴: VERB V n, V prep
If you vault something or vault over it, you jump quickly onto or over it, especially by putting a hand on top of it to help you balance while you jump.

6. barricade: N-COUNT
A barricade is a line of vehicles or other objects placed across a road or open space to stop people getting past, for example during street fighting or as a protest.

7. grab: VERB V n, V n by/round n
If you grab something, you take it or pick it up suddenly and roughly.

8. abduct⁷: VERB be V-ed, V n
If someone is abducted¹⁷ by another person, he or she is taken away illegally, usually using force.

9. logo: N-COUNT
The logo of a company or organization is the special design or way of writing its name that it puts on all its products, notepaper, or advertisements.

10. epileptic: ADJ
Someone who is epileptic suffers from epilepsy.

11. epilepsy: N-UNCOUNT
Epilepsy is a brain condition which causes a person to suddenly lose consciousness and sometimes to have fits.

12. seizure⁹: N-COUNT
If someone has a seizure, they have a sudden violent attack of an illness, especially one that affects their heart or brain.

13. slate¹²: usu passive, be V-ed
If something is slated, it is criticized very severely¹⁸. (BRIT JOURNALISM)

14. reedit: 重新编辑，修订（金山词霸）

Wiki Item: Target Store