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1. The Senate is expected to approve a higher debt ceiling limit and more than $2 trillion in spending cuts over the next decade. That's the deal that cleared the House Monday. The bill then goes on to the president for his signature.

2. An autopsy¹ is planned for today on Celina Cass, the 11-year-old northern New Hampshire girl who disappeared from her home July 25th. Her body was found Monday near a hydroelectric dam a quarter-mile from her home. Police are calling her death suspicious²

3. Emergency workers are watching rising floodwaters in the Philippine capital. Manila's rivers and canals are rising after a night of monsoon³ rains. Back-to-back storms in the northern Philippines have killed more than 60 people in the last two weeks.

4. And a Youtube video of a snake crawling onto the windshield of a van in Tennessee is an Internet hit. Hundreds of thousands of people have viewed "Snake on a Car." Tony Fisher of Collierville told reporters the snake came straight up from the left side of the hood⁴ last week as his wife Rachel was driving.

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1 autopsy
n.尸体解剖；尸检
参考例句：
They're carrying out an autopsy on the victim.他们正在给受害者验尸。 A hemorrhagic gut was the predominant lesion at autopsy.尸检的主要发现是肠出血。

2 suspicious
adj.可疑的，容易引起怀疑的，猜疑的，疑心的
参考例句：
A man was hanging about the house in a suspicious manner.一个男人在房子周围可疑地荡来荡去。 He's so suspicious he would distrust his own mother.他这个人疑心太重，连自己的母亲也不相信。

3 monsoon
n.季雨，季风，大雨
参考例句：
The monsoon rains started early this year.今年季雨降雨开始得早。 The main climate type in that region is monsoon.那个地区主要以季风气候为主要气候类型。

4 hood
n.头巾，兜帽，覆盖；v.罩上，以头巾覆盖
参考例句：
She is wearing a red cloak with a hood.她穿着一件红色带兜帽的披风。 The car hood was dented in.汽车的发动机罩已凹了进去。