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英语新闻视频 China Daily Video News March 28

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Fees scrapped1 at 33 museums in Beijing

Starting today, 33 museums in Beijing will have free admission.
Most of the museums will limit the number of visitors per day by issuing tickets.
The public will still have to pay to see such historical sites as the Forbidden City.

Indian carmaker Tata buys Jaguar3 and Land Rover
Tata, maker2 of the world’s cheapest mobile will soon sell the most expensive too.
Ford4 Motor Co. is selling Jaguar and Land Rover for $2.3 billion. That’s less than half the price Ford paid for the two luxury car brands.
US death count in Iraq reaches 4,000
The United States Military says the number of US soldiers who died in Iraq has reached 4,000.
The new tally5 comes just days after the fifth anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq.
Currently 160,000 US soldiers are stationed there.
Chinese women’s team has new coach
The China Football Association has fired French coach Elisabeth Loisel who took the helm of the women’s team as recently as last October.
Shang Ruihua is the new coach, who has only a few more months to get the team in shape for the Olympics.
Ding out of China Snooker Open
China’s Ding Junhui was knocked out of the 2008 World China Snooker Open in Beijing Yesterday. He was beaten by World No. 3 Shaun Murphy 5-4.
Hong Kong’s Marco Fu was also defeated 5-2 by Mark Selby.
World champion John Higgins has reached the quarterfinals.
Full
Olympic torch relay kicks off
The torch relay for the Beijing Olympics began earlier this week in Olympia, Greece.
In a ceremony, an actress dressed as a high priestess ignited the flame using a concave mirror to focus on the sun’s rays.
The torch is spending six days in Greece before being handed over to the Beijing Olympic Organizing officials on March 30.
On March 31, the torch will be arrived in Beijing at a celebration in Tiananmen Square.
The relay will span 130 days, covering 137,000 kilometers.
Beijing’s T3 in full use, new terminal opens in Shanghai
Two new airport terminals began full operations in both Beijing and Shanghai this week.
Over 20 airlines moved over to Beijing Capital International Airport’s Terminal 3.
T3 now handles 60 percent of the airport’s passenger flow.
Meanwhile, Shanghai’s Pudong International Airport opened Terminal 2. It is twice the size of the first one, at 546,000 square meters.
Fifteen airline companies are now based in Terminal 2, mostly foreign ones, like Northwest Airlines and Air India.
Sarkozy visits UK
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is in London to create a “new Franco-British brotherhood”.
His model-turned-singer wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy accompanied him.
The aim of the trip is to put aside differences over the Iraq War and revitalize relations with both the UK and the United States.
He met with Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Queen Elizabeth II, and addressed members of both Houses of Parliament.
KMT wins Taiwan election
Taiwan’s Kuomintang (KMT) party won the island’s leadership election by a landslide6 this past weekend.
Ma Ying-jeou, former KMT chairman, and his running mate Vincent Siew got 58.45 percent of the votes. Frank Hsieh of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) got 41.55 percent of the votes.
Taiwan residents also rejected two “referendums” to launch a bid to join the United Nations.
Analysts7 say the people are more concerned about maintaining peace and stability across the Taiwan Straits.
Picture Show
Democratic rivals related to Hollywood’s sexiest
A genealogical study links Hillary Clinton to Angelina Jolie, and Barack Obama to Brad Pitt.
The New England Historic Genealogical Society found one of Obama’s distant cousins from 1769 is related to Pitt.
Clinton shares a common ancestor with actress Jolie in 1718 in Quebec, Canada.
Giant slab8 of Antarctic ice falls into sea
Satellite images show a large hunk of Antarctica’s Wilkins Ice Shelf has started to collapse9 in a fast-warming region of the continent.
Scientists say this last “ice buttress” could fall apart and about half the total ice shelf area could be lost in the next few years.
4th China International Press Photo Contest
In Shanghai, top news photographers works were under displayed at the 4th China International Press Photo Contest.
Pictures from top news events of the year as well as features were honored in categories such as War & Disaster, General News, Sports and Arts & Culture.


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1 scrapped c056f581043fe275b02d9e1269f11d62     
废弃(scrap的过去式与过去分词); 打架
参考例句:
  • This machine is so old that it will soon have to be scrapped. 这架机器太旧,快报废了。
  • It had been thought that passport controls would be scrapped. 人们曾认为会放开护照管制。
2 maker DALxN     
n.制造者,制造商
参考例句:
  • He is a trouble maker,You must be distant with him.他是个捣蛋鬼,你不要跟他在一起。
  • A cabinet maker must be a master craftsman.家具木工必须是技艺高超的手艺人。
3 jaguar JaPz8     
n.美洲虎
参考例句:
  • He was green with envy when he saw my new Jaguar car.看见我那辆美洲虎牌新车,他非常妒忌。
  • Should you meet a jaguar in the jungle,just turn slowly,walk away.But slowly,never look back.你在丛林中若碰上美洲虎,就慢慢转身走开,可一定要慢,切莫回头看。
4 Ford KiIxx     
n.浅滩,水浅可涉处;v.涉水,涉过
参考例句:
  • They were guarding the bridge,so we forded the river.他们驻守在那座桥上,所以我们只能涉水过河。
  • If you decide to ford a stream,be extremely careful.如果已决定要涉过小溪,必须极度小心。
5 tally Gg1yq     
n.计数器,记分,一致,测量;vt.计算,记录,使一致;vi.计算,记分,一致
参考例句:
  • Don't forget to keep a careful tally of what you spend.别忘了仔细记下你的开支账目。
  • The facts mentioned in the report tally to every detail.报告中所提到的事实都丝毫不差。
6 landslide XxyyG     
n.(竞选中)压倒多数的选票;一面倒的胜利
参考例句:
  • Our candidate is predicated to win by a landslide.我们的候选人被预言将以绝对优势取胜。
  • An electoral landslide put the Labour Party into power in 1945.1945年工党以压倒多数的胜利当选执政。
7 analysts 167ff30c5034ca70abe2d60a6e760448     
分析家,化验员( analyst的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • City analysts forecast huge profits this year. 伦敦金融分析家预测今年的利润非常丰厚。
  • I was impressed by the high calibre of the researchers and analysts. 研究人员和分析人员的高素质给我留下了深刻印象。
8 slab BTKz3     
n.平板,厚的切片;v.切成厚板,以平板盖上
参考例句:
  • This heavy slab of oak now stood between the bomb and Hitler.这时笨重的橡木厚板就横在炸弹和希特勒之间了。
  • The monument consists of two vertical pillars supporting a horizontal slab.这座纪念碑由两根垂直的柱体构成,它们共同支撑着一块平板。
9 collapse aWvyE     
vi.累倒;昏倒;倒塌;塌陷
参考例句:
  • The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
  • The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。
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