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1. The world's largest passenger aircraft clipped a much smaller commuter¹ plane at New York City's Kennedy Airport, spinning it like a toy. An aviation safety expert says it's more like the Air France A380 creamed the regional jet, while the NTSB is investigating. No one was injured.

2. Police on Long Island confirm that remains² found this week during a search for possible victims of a serial³ killer⁴ are human. That makes 10 sets of remains found along a beach highway in the recent months.

3. NASA is giving its retiring space shuttles to museums in Cape⁵ Canaveral, Los Angeles and suburban⁶ Washington. New York City will get the prototype Enterprise, which was used for test flights.

4. Period music and echo of cannons⁷ ushered⁸ in the 150th anniversary of the start of America's bloodiest⁹ war. The civil war commemoration in Charleston underscores a racial divide that had plagued the nation for centuries.

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1 commuter
n.(尤指市郊之间)乘公交车辆上下班者
参考例句：
Police cordoned off the road and diverted commuter traffic. 警察封锁了道路并分流交通。 She accidentally stepped on his foot on a crowded commuter train. 她在拥挤的通勤列车上不小心踩到了他的脚。

2 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。

3 serial
n.连本影片，连本电视节目；adj.连续的
参考例句：
A new serial is starting on television tonight.今晚电视开播一部新的电视连续剧。 Can you account for the serial failures in our experiment?你能解释我们实验屡屡失败的原因吗？

4 killer
n.杀人者，杀人犯，杀手，屠杀者
参考例句：
Heart attacks have become Britain's No.1 killer disease.心脏病已成为英国的头号致命疾病。 The bulk of the evidence points to him as her killer.大量证据证明是他杀死她的。

5 cape
n.海角，岬；披肩，短披风
参考例句：
I long for a trip to the Cape of Good Hope.我渴望到好望角去旅行。 She was wearing a cape over her dress.她在外套上披着一件披肩。

6 suburban
adj.城郊的，在郊区的
参考例句：
Suburban shopping centers were springing up all over America. 效区的商业中心在美国如雨后春笋般地兴起。 There's a lot of good things about suburban living.郊区生活是有许多优点。

7 cannons
n.加农炮，大炮，火炮( cannon的名词复数 )
参考例句：
Cannons bombarded enemy lines. 大炮轰击了敌军阵地。来自《简明英汉词典》 One company had been furnished with six cannons. 某连队装备了六门大炮。来自《简明英汉词典》

8 ushered
v.引，领，陪同( usher的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句：
The secretary ushered me into his office. 秘书把我领进他的办公室。 A round of parties ushered in the New Year. 一系列的晚会迎来了新年。来自《简明英汉词典》

9 bloodiest
adj.血污的( bloody的最高级 )；流血的；屠杀的；残忍的
参考例句：
The Russians were going to suffer their bloodiest defeat of all before Berlin. 俄国人在柏林城下要遭到他们的最惨重的失败。来自辞典例句 It was perhaps the bloodiest hour in the history of warfare. 这也许是战争史上血腥味最浓的1个小时。来自互联网