澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2012-10-09

 One of the soldiers injured in an army track accident remains¹ in a critical condition. Another soldier who'd also been in a critical condition is now thankfully stable. 18 soldiers were thrown from the troop carrier when it rolled on a dirt track at Sydney's Holsworthy Army Barracks yesterday.

 

Opposition² leader Tony Abbott's approval rating has jumped 3% in the latest newspoll, the poll was taken after last week's Media Blitz by Mr.Abbott's wife defending him from claims he has problems with women. The Coalition's primary vote is also up by 4% to 45%.

 

There is a going anger over the federal government's plan to cut payments to single parents, it wants to move them onto a lower unemployment benefit, once their youngest child turns 8, the bill is expected to be debated in the senate today and welfare groups are pushing for a change of heart.

 

Fourty Australian women are diagnosed with breast cancer everyday, and the number is likely to increase. A new report predicts more than 17,000 women will suffer from breast cancer by 2020. But survival rates are improving, almost 90% of sufferers survive five years or longer after diagnosis³.

 

Two pioneers of stem cell research have shared this year's Nobel Prize for medicine. Japan's Shinya Yamanaka and John Gurdon from Britain developed a process to turn adult cells into stem cells. The Nobel Committee says they have revolutionized science.

1 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

2 opposition   

n.反对，敌对

参考例句：

• The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
• The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。

3 diagnosis   

n.诊断，诊断结果，调查分析，判断

参考例句：

• His symptoms gave no obvious pointer to a possible diagnosis.他的症状无法作出明确的诊断。
• The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做一次彻底的调查分析。