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1. Federal agents expect to be at this Detroit-area horse farm for several weeks to search for clues to Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance. The former Teamsters leader vanished in 1975.
2. The general tapped by President Bush to head the CIA was grilled by senators today about the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance program. General Michael Hayden, the former head of the NSA, insisted the program is legal.
3. The biggest passenger plane ever built has landed at London Heathrow Airport earlier today to see if the busy airport can handle the massive aircraft. The Airbus A380 is a double-decker aircraft that holds 555 passengers.
4. A northern black bear cub was caught wandering near a Northern Virginia elementary school. Animal control officials removed the 17-month-old animal without incident.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. teamster : n-count
A teamster is a person who drives a truck. (AM; in BRIT, use lorry driver)
e.g. = trucker
Teamsters ------ 国际卡车司机同业公会
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is the world’s most powerful labor union, and it’s an industrial union of truck drivers and chauffeurs and warehouse workers.
2. tap : verb------指定,选定
e.g. Mr. Smith was tapped for police commissioner.
3. grill : verb
If you grill someone about something, you ask them a lot of questions for a long period of time. (INFORMAL)
e.g. The police grilled him for hours.
4. double-decker : adj
Double-decker items or structures have two layers or levels instead of one.
5. cub : n-count
A cub is a young wild animal such as a lion, wolf, or bear.
e.g. three five-week-old lion cubs.
6. Animal Control ------ 动物收容所
Animal Shelter
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