美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2013-01-20_在线英语听力室

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1. Police say two people are dead following a helicopter crash during rush hour in central London. The helicopter apparently¹ hit a construction crane on top of a building. It crashed just south of the Thames near an underground train station and the British spy agency MI6.

2. A new poll suggests that nearly 60% of Americans want stricter gun laws and 84% who answered the AP-GFK poll want background checks for gun purchases at gun shows.

3. Wednesday's announcement by President Obama on gun control efforts is expected to bring together law enforcement officials, lawmakers and children who wrote Obama about gun violence following last month's elementary school massacre² in Newtown, Connecticut.

4. Facebook head Mark Zuckergberg unveiled a new search feature on Tuesday called "graph search". The new search lets users search their social connections for information about interests, photos and places.

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1 apparently
adv.显然地；表面上，似乎
参考例句：
An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。 He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。

2 massacre
n.残杀，大屠杀；v.残杀，集体屠杀
参考例句：
There was a terrible massacre of villagers here during the war.在战争中，这里的村民惨遭屠杀。 If we forget the massacre,the massacre will happen again!忘记了大屠杀，大屠杀就有可能再次发生！

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美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2013-01-20