CNN 2011-11-05

 On this day in 1983 Martin Luther King Junior Day became a Federal holiday. Other significant events that happened on this day in history are coming right up. I'm Carl Azuz, you are watching CNN Student News. 

 

First up, the connections between the financial bailout, a vote in Greece and global stock markets. The bailpout is part of the deal that European leaders came up with last week. It's designed to help Greece with its massive debt. But the bailout comes with rules. Greece would have to raise taxes and cut government spending, and that's something the Greece citizens have been protested against for months. Yesterday Greek Prime Minister called for a naitonal referandum. He wants Greece citizens to vote on whether they want the bailout and the rules that come with it. And this is what the global stock markets come in. If Greece can't turn its debt problem around, this could infect the entire world economy. The news of this referandum made some investors¹ worried. Many of them started selling off stocks, and that's why a lot of international stock markets dropped yesterday.

 

Well from Greece we are moving to Japan, and a long-range plan for the Fukushima Diichi nuclear power plant. You've heard of this before. suffered a melt down after a deadly earthqauke and tsunami² back in March. The temperatures in the plant have come down inside the reactors³. But according to a new report, it could take decades for the plant to become fully⁴ decommissioned. That's because this is a long and complicated process. First officials have to do a cold shutdown. The plant's owners say that should happen by the end of this year, probably take 10 years to get all of the nuclear fuel out, and probably more than 30 years to completely finish the clean-up.

 

Today Shout-out goes out to Mr. Shea's social studies classes at Berkshire Junior and senior high school and Canaan New York. In the US political system, what is the function of primaries and caucuses⁵? It is to help determint Cabinet postions, Supreme⁶ Court Justices, Presidencial Nominees⁷ or Eelectoral College members. You've got 3 senconds, go!

 

Primaries and caucuses help to detemine Presidencial nominees. That's your answer and that's your shout-out.

1 investors   

n.投资者，出资者( investor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
• a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会

2 tsunami   

n.海啸

参考例句：

• Powerful quake sparks tsunami warning in Japan.大地震触发了日本的海啸预警。
• Coastlines all around the Indian Ocean inundated by a huge tsunami.大海啸把印度洋沿岸地区都淹没了。

3 reactors   

起反应的人( reactor的名词复数 )； 反应装置； 原子炉； 核反应堆

参考例句：

• The TMI nuclear facility has two reactors. 三哩岛核设施有两个反应堆。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
• The earliest production reactors necessarily used normal uranium as fuel. 最早为生产用的反应堆，必须使用普通铀作为燃料。

4 fully   

adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地

参考例句：

• The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
• They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。

5 caucuses   

n.（政党决定政策或推举竞选人的）核心成员( caucus的名词复数 )；决策干部；决策委员会；秘密会议

参考例句：

• Republican caucuses will happen in about 410 towns across Maine. 共和党团会议选举将在缅因州的约410个城镇进行。 来自互联网

6 supreme   

adj.极度的，最重要的；至高的，最高的

参考例句：

• It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
• He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。

7 nominees   

n.被提名者，被任命者( nominee的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• She's one of the nominees. 她是被提名者之一。 来自超越目标英语 第2册
• A startling number of his nominees for senior positions have imploded. 他所提名的高级官员被否决的数目令人震惊。 来自互联网