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 To mark the anniversary of the financial collapse¹, the White House has released a new economic report. As NPR's Ari Shapiro reports it charts the impact of the government's interventions² to save the economy. 

The support looks a wide range of measurements, home prices, auto³ sales, consumer lending and more, on the everyone, the White House argues that things are better than they were and in many cases, economic advisor⁴ Gene⁵ Sperling says things turned out better than anyone anticipated. On a conference call, he offered the AIG bailout as one example, where the government spent 182 billion dollars to save the bank, and today, 

Tax payers, the federal government has now seen return of 205 billion or 23 billion more than what's put in, 

BUt by other measures of the recovery is less than impressive. Unemployment remains⁶ at 7.3%. A typical worker today, it makes little more than a decade ago and the income divide is larger than it's been in almost a century. Ari Shapiro NPR NEws, Washington. 

More than a thousand people are waiting to be rescued in parts of Colorado following intense flooding. But as Luke Raniaxx, from member station KUNC reports, weather condition are delaying rescue efforts. 

Many of the winding⁷ mountain roads, that give access to flooded towns have been wiped out by overflowing⁸ rivers. That makes helicopter the only way to reach some of the stranded⁹ residents. Instant commander, ShindoGrasulxx, says it's impossible to get into the air where the weather refused to cooperate. He says even the smallest delays, put lives had risk. 

It's the middle of September, it's not gonna be long in this country fully¹⁰ start getting frost, and you're gonna start having some snow. It's gonna take months and years to rebuild some of these roads. 

Across the state, more than 1,000 people are still unaccounted for. For NPR News, I'm Luke Raniaxx, in Fort Collins, Colorado. 

Secretary of state John Kerry says the threat of force remains if Syria does not comply to eliminate its chemical weapons stockpile. Speaking in Jerusalem today, he said the US will make sure such weapons are never used in the country again. 

The agreed just use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime, against innocent men, women, children, their own citizens, all indiscriminately murdered in the dead on the night, is unacceptable. 

Kerry will meet with the French president and foreign minister tomorrow in Paris. Efforts to provide aid to Syria are becoming more urgent. Speaking in Teheran today, UN humanitarian¹¹ aid chief,  Valerie Amos says the situation in the war-torn country is dire¹².

We now have the situations where 6.8 million people in the country are in urgent need of help, that's nearly 1/3 of the population. 

Amos also urged Teheran to use its influence as an ally to allow greater aid access to Syria. This is NPR. 

A new report from the center for a budget and policy priority says most aids are spending significantly less money per a key through 12 students than they were in 2008. Danielle Karson of member station WBHM in Birmingham, Alabama, has more from the state with the biggest dollar drop off. 

The reports of 34 states are spending less per student than they did before the recession that ended in 2009. 15 states are spending less than last year despite revenue increases. The senate sets lingering effects of the downturn in austerity measures. Alabama saw the largest drop more than 1,200 inflation adjusted dollars per student. Schools chief of staff, CregPonsyxx, says the new normal hurts. 

We've not been able to extend school districts, 80 resources riot to technology text books, professional development, it's increased our class sizes. 

On average state funds can afford almost half the education money spent in the US. For NPR News, I'm Danielle Karson in Birmingham. 

Officials say tomorrow's weather will allow engineers to upgrade the Costa Concordia, the cruise ship that ran aground off Tuscany last year. Senior salvage¹³ master, Nick Sloan says the ship has responded well to the pre-salvage maneuver¹⁴. 

We know that's, with four sponsons then she was levered and left through where she's ready to move. 

The cruise ship has been resting on its side with a huge gushing¹⁵ in its hole. The salvaging¹⁶ process is expected to take anywhere between ten to twelve hours. 32 people were killed after last year's accident. The captain has been tried for manslaughter and abandoning ship. 

This is NPR News in Washington.

1 collapse   

vi.累倒；昏倒；倒塌；塌陷

参考例句：

• The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
• The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。

2 interventions   

n.介入，干涉，干预( intervention的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Economic analysis of government interventions deserves detailed discussion. 政府对经济的干预应该给予充分的论述。 来自辞典例句
• The judge's frequent interventions made a mockery of justice. 法官的屡屡干预是对正义的践踏。 来自互联网

3 auto   

n.(=automobile)(口语)汽车

参考例句：

• Don't park your auto here.别把你的汽车停在这儿。
• The auto industry has brought many people to Detroit.汽车工业把许多人吸引到了底特律。

4 advisor   

n.顾问，指导老师，劝告者

参考例句：

• They employed me as an advisor.他们聘请我当顾问。
• The professor is engaged as a technical advisor.这位教授被聘请为技术顾问。

5 gene   

n.遗传因子，基因

参考例句：

• A single gene may have many effects.单一基因可能具有很多种效应。
• The targeting of gene therapy has been paid close attention.其中基因治疗的靶向性是值得密切关注的问题之一。

6 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。

7 winding   

n.绕，缠，绕组，线圈

参考例句：

• A winding lane led down towards the river.一条弯弯曲曲的小路通向河边。
• The winding trail caused us to lose our orientation.迂回曲折的小道使我们迷失了方向。

8 overflowing   

n. 溢出物,溢流 adj. 充沛的，充满的 动词overflow的现在分词形式

参考例句：

• The stands were overflowing with farm and sideline products. 集市上农副产品非常丰富。
• The milk is overflowing. 牛奶溢出来了。

9 stranded   

a.搁浅的，进退两难的

参考例句：

• He was stranded in a strange city without money. 他流落在一个陌生的城市里， 身无分文，一筹莫展。
• I was stranded in the strange town without money or friends. 我困在那陌生的城市，既没有钱，又没有朋友。

10 fully   

adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地

参考例句：

• The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
• They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。

11 humanitarian   

n.人道主义者，博爱者，基督凡人论者

参考例句：

• She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业，并作了很大的贡献。
• The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。

12 dire   

adj.可怕的，悲惨的，阴惨的，极端的

参考例句：

• There were dire warnings about the dangers of watching too much TV.曾经有人就看电视太多的危害性提出严重警告。
• We were indeed in dire straits.But we pulled through.那时我们的困难真是大极了，但是我们渡过了困难。

13 salvage   

v.救助，营救，援救；n.救助，营救

参考例句：

• All attempts to salvage the wrecked ship failed.抢救失事船只的一切努力都失败了。
• The salvage was piled upon the pier.抢救出的财产被堆放在码头上。

14 maneuver   

n.策略[pl.]演习；v.(巧妙)控制；用策略

参考例句：

• All the fighters landed safely on the airport after the military maneuver.在军事演习后，所有战斗机都安全降落在机场上。
• I did get her attention with this maneuver.我用这个策略确实引起了她的注意。

15 gushing   

adj.迸出的；涌出的；喷出的；过分热情的v.喷，涌( gush的现在分词 )；滔滔不绝地说话

参考例句：

• blood gushing from a wound 从伤口冒出的血
• The young mother was gushing over a baby. 那位年轻的母亲正喋喋不休地和婴儿说话。 来自《简明英汉词典》

16 salvaging   

（从火灾、海难等中）抢救（某物）( salvage的现在分词 )； 回收利用（某物）

参考例句：

• A shipping company has made a claim for the cost of salvaging a sunken ship. 某轮船公司要求赔赏打捞沉船的费用。（make a claim 要求）
• It is not uncommon to hear that a shipping company has made a claim for the cost of salvaging a sunken ship. 航运公司为打捞沉船的费用而提出要求，这并非奇闻。