CNN 2011-11-04

 Come to Nov, a new month commercial headline form CNN student news. Coming to you from the CNN news room,here in Atlanta Gorge¹, I am CA.

   We are going to start with anending after 7 months the NATO mission² in Libya is officially over. NATO stands for North Atlantic Treaty³ Organization, 28 countries are members of NATO. When NATO takes a mission like it did in Libya. The operation is carried out by military forces, for some of its member nation, in this case, that main country US and France fly air strike over Libya. Part of NATO mission was protect Lybia's * during its civil war. NATO secretary general went to Libya on Monday, you see him getting off the plane; he announced the formal end of the mission. NowLibya’s new leader said they thought that was a mistake. One official said he expected NATO to suspend⁴ its mission in Libya, but not cancel it completely. US defend department said its plan to keep monitoring in Libya from the sky at least for a little while. 

     Yesterday, we solved another mile stone and we talk about last week, the world's population pasted 7 billion. Lot of country make clean, but this lady was the first to make official announcement as the world 7th billion baby. She was born in Philippians just before midnight on Sunday. Some experts are concerning⁵ about population grow as you might imagine. They are concern about whether or not there will be enough resources for everybody, talking about things like food and water. UN official say the world can overcome this challenge as long as people take steps to deal with them. Might be hard to rag your head around justhow large 7 billion is. It took the world around 12 years to go from six billion people to 7 billion. If you are counting from 6 billion to 7 billion,it will take you more 30 years to do it. If you understand equator⁶, it took 7b steps you would walk around the world more than 100 times and 7 billion seconds ago, the year was 1789.

1 gorge   

n.咽喉，胃，暴食，山峡；v.塞饱，狼吞虎咽地吃

参考例句：

• East of the gorge leveled out.峡谷东面地势变得平坦起来。
• It made my gorge rise to hear the news.这消息令我作呕。

2 mission   

n.使命，任务，天职；代表团，使团

参考例句：

• He was charged with an important mission.他受委托承担一项重要使命。
• I'll leave you to undertake an important mission.我要让你承担一项重要使命。

3 treaty   

n.条约；协议，协定

参考例句：

• Hungary has indicated its readiness to sign the treaty.匈牙利已表示愿意签订该条约。
• I believe this treaty will pave the way to peace in Europe. 我相信这个条约将为欧洲的和平铺平道路。

4 suspend   

vt. 推迟, 悬挂, 暂停, 取消; vi. 悬挂, 中止, 停止偿付债务

参考例句：

• Balloons suspend easily in the air. 气球容易浮在空中。
• I request them to suspend their decision until they have read my narrative. 我请求他们没看完我写的故事之前,别轻率地先下断语。

5 concerning   

prep.关于，论及

参考例句：

• What do you know concerning this?关于这事你知道些什么？
• Some senior students wrote in asking for information concerning postgraduate studies.一些四年级学生写信询问有关研究生课程的信息。

6 equator   

n.赤道，（平分球形物体的面的）圆

参考例句：

• Singapore is near the equator.新加坡位于赤道附近。
• The United States is north of the equator.美国位于赤道以北。