乖乖小猫侠
10月11日的新闻:1. Chaos at an Ohio high school. A gunman opened fire in the Cleveland school. At least five people including three teenagers were taken to the hospital. Police say the gunman is dead and appears to have shot himself.2. Freight train cars carrying toxic chemicals derailed this afternoon, setting off a huge fire. It happened as the train passed through Painesville, Ohio. Authorities have evacuated the surrounding area. No one was injured.3. Autoworkers walked off the job at Chrysler plants. Talks broke off between the carmaker and the union. Health care is one of the main sticking points. It's the first United Auto Workers' strike against the company in a decade.4. The next time your teen gets behind the wheel of a car, parents might be able to see exactly what they do. Several auto insurers have started offering in-car cameras or global positioning equipment to parents to monitor teen driving habits. It's an effort to cut down on teen driver crashes.
蔷薇紫馨524
Conservation efforts in Inner Mongolia have spurred the northern region's development and benefited the national capital,top regional officials said yesterday in Beijing. The autonomous region,which is known as a major source of the seasonal sandstorms that blanket Beijing,has "done what it could" to curb ecological deterioration,Yang Jing,chairman of the regional government,said. "Protecting the environment has been listed as Inner Mongolia's most important infrastructure project," Yang told a press conference organized by the State Council Information Office yesterday to mark the region's 60th anniversary. "The number of sandstorms has fallen significantly in recent years,which favorably influences the weather in Beijing and Tianjin." Inner Mongolia,which is some 300 km north of Beijing,has long been thought of as the capital's backyard.However,the distance is not enough to protect Beijing from the wind-borne dust and sand that blow down from the region. Dust blown in from western Inner Mongolia blanketed Beijing nearly two months ago,lowering visibility to 4 km from 20 km the previous day. Inner Mongolia has spent some 20 billion yuan ($2.7 billion) on efforts to halt desertification in an area measuring 16.7 million hectares over the past five years.It has also increased its forest coverage to 17.6 percent of its total area from 14.8 percent in 1999,Yang said. At least 3 billion yuan was earmarked to implement the massive "Beijing-Tianjin windblown sand sources control project" in a bid to build a green ecological belt in northern China,according to regional government sources. The project involves 458,000 sq km of land,about 48 percent of which lies in Inner Mongolia. "There are several sources of sand and dust (affecting Beijing) besides Inner Mongolia.We have done what we could on our part," Yang said. Chu Bo,secretary of the regional committee of the Communist Party of China,said yesterday that 70 percent of the region's livestock has been confined to enclosed pastures to reduce the grazing pressure on grasslands. In addition to returning farmland to forests and reclaiming overgrazed pastures,Inner Mongolia has encouraged traditional pastoral areas to develop alternative industries. Citing Erdos as a success story,Chu said the city would have plunged into an ecological vicious circle had it not built up secondary and tertiary industries. As a result,the city of 1.4 million people is expected to have a gross domestic product of 100 billion yuan ($13 billion) this year,a level of prosperity that can only be found in the country's coastal regions,Chu said. Inner Mongolia is home to China's largest grasslands.The region spans 1.18 million sq km,which is about twice the size of Ukraine. 不算太长吧.
黄小月abc
Three Gorges Project The Three Gorges Reservoir has started to discharge water, to be prepared for the coming flood season of China's longest waterway, the Yangtze River. The reservoir is planned to discharge 2.7 billion cubic meters of water before June 10, when the water level is expected to drop to 144.5 meters, a fall of six meters from the previous level, said an engineer with the Three Gorges Project Development Corporation on Thursday. The water level marked 148.1 meters at 7 p.m. Thursday, said Yuan Jie, the engineer in charge of the discharge work. "As the flood season approaches, it is necessary for us to make preparations beforehand," said Yuan. Located where the Yangtze River's upper and middle reaches meet, the mammoth Three Gorges Project is said to be capable of holding back major floods on the country's longest river. Its reservoir is capable of holding 22.15 billion cubic meters of water when it attains a normal water level of 175 meters, according to the corporation. Launched in 1993, construction of the gigantic concrete structure of the Three Gorges dam was completed in May last year. The water level in the reservoir will eventually reach 175 meters in 2009, when the Three Gorges project is finally completed.
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英语时事短篇新闻：
When the earthquake occurred in Japan, 130 kilometers northeast of Fukushima Prefecture, a huge tsunami was formed due to the earthquake, and it invaded the port at a very fast speed.
Hundreds of people died. The earthquake is the strongest in Japan in more than 100 years, causing huge losses.
日本地震发生的时候，距离福岛县东北方向130公里处的海上，因地震而形成了巨大海啸，并以极快的速度向港口侵袭。
数百人丧生。这次地震是日本100多年来最强烈的一次地震，造成了巨大的损失。
重点词汇：
海上：at sea ; on the sea ; seaborne。
海啸：bore ; tidal wave ; seismic sea wave ; seaquake。
侵袭：make inroads on ; invade and attack ; smite ; hit。
数百：hundreds of ; several hundred ; people lost their jobs。
丧生：meet one's death ; lose one's life ; get killed。
多年来：over the years ; for years ; through the years。
以上内容参考 百度百科-日本地震
