美联社新闻一分钟 2007-07-29

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1. Vice¹ President Cheney has undergone a successful minor² surgical³ procedure. Doctors at George Washington University Hospital replaced the generator⁴ and battery in a device that monitors Cheney's heart rhythms.

2. Thousands of people attended a memorial service in Connecticut for a woman and her two daughters killed in a home invasion. The lone⁵ survivor⁶ of the attack, Doctor William Petit Jr., spoke⁷ at the service, still bearing the bruise⁸s of a beating he took in the attack.

3. Sunday, Britain's new Prime Minister Gordon Brown heads to Washington for a first face-to-face meeting with President Bush. The two world leaders will meet at Camp David in Maryland.

4. Barry Bonds enters Saturday's major league action, needing just one more homer to tie baseball legend Hank Aaron's career record. The San Francisco Giants slugger smacked his 754th home run Friday night.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. generator: countable¹¹ noun
a machine that produces electricity

2. battery: countable noun
an object that provides a supply of electricity for something such as a radio, car, or toy

3. bruise: countable noun
a purple or brown mark on your skin that you get because you have fallen, been hit etc

4. major league: noun
Either of the two principal groups of professional baseball teams in the United States.

5. homer: countable noun (American English informal)
a home run in baseball

6. tie: transitive verb
to equalize (the score) in a game or contest

7. slugger: countable noun (American English informal)
a baseball player who hits the ball a very long way

8. smack: transitive verb
to hit something hard against something else so that it makes a short loud noise