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1. The Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church held a memorial service in honor of the two people killed in a shooting rampage a week ago. Six others were hurt. The suspect in the case is due in court Tuesday.

2. A British man who was attacked during his Caribbean honeymoon¹ has died. Benjamin Mullany was declared dead at a Wales hospital. He and his wife Catherine were attacked last week while they vacationed in Antigua, she was killed immediately.

3. One hundred and forty-five people were killed in a stampede at a Hindu temple in northern India. The pilgrims were attending a nine-day religious festival. Dozens of people fell over the edge of a mountain path when a railing gave way.

4. Brett Farve will return to the Green Bay Packers' roster² effective Monday afternoon. Farve announced his retirement³ in March. The NFL commissioner⁴ held off on granting Farve's request for reinstatement for nearly a week, hoping he and the team would resolve their differences.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. Unitarian Universalism: n. 一位论-普救派

A religious association of Christian⁵ origin that has no official creed⁶ and that considers God to be unipersonal, salvation⁷ to be granted to the entire human race, and reason and conscience to be the criteria⁸ for belief and practice.

2. stampede: n.

If a lot of people all do the same thing at the same time, you can describe it as a stampede.

3. Hindu: adj.

Hindu is used to describe things that belong or relate to Hinduism(印度教).

4. railing: n.

A fence made from metal bars is called a railing or railings.

5. roster: n.

a list of the names of people on a sports team, in an organization etc.

6. hold off: v.

If you hold off doing something, you delay doing it or delay making a decision about it.

7. reinstatement: n.

Reinstatement is the act of giving someone back a job or position which has been taken away from them.