美联社新闻一分钟 2005-11-08(在线收听

1. President Bush vigorously defends US interrogation practices in the war on terror and lobbies against the congressional drive to outlaw torture.

2. Crews found the body of another apparent victim from a weekend tornado in the Midwest, raising the tornado death toll to 22.

3. Rioting in France spreads to 300 towns while a man hurt in the violence dies of his wounds, the first fatality in eleven days of unrest.

4. International Space Station residents space walk, installing a huge camera and discarding a probe that monitors environment outside the station.

5. And magics in the air, the cast of the latest Harry Potter movie "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" attend the London premiere

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. vigorous
2 vigorous
A vigorous person does things with great energy and enthusiasm. A vigorous campaign or activity is done with great energy and enthusiasm.
vigorously
The police vigorously denied that excessive force had been used.
ADV-GRADED: ADV with v

2. fatality
1 fatality fatalities
A fatality is a death caused by an accident or by violence. (FORMAL)
Drunk driving fatalities in this country have declined more than 10 percent over the past 10 years.
N-COUNT

3. cast
1 cast casts
The cast of a play or film is all the people who act in it.
The show is very amusing and the cast are very good.
N-COUNT-COLL The form cast is used in the present tense and is the past tense and past participle

4. goblet
goblet goblets
A goblet is a type of cup without handles and usually with a long stem.
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