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Off the North Carolina coast, hurricane Arthur has strengthened to a category-two storm with sustained winds of a hundred miles an hour. Forecaster says there’s a good chance to make a land fall near or over the out of banks tonight.11-year-old Patrick Vacik of New York is vacationed in the outer banks with his family and he has already figured out how weather the storm.

“well, we will probably play categories Em, we will probably eat guat and play ball games.”

Arthur’s about 110 miles southwest of Catepater.

     Hiring is the strongest disbean in years, according to the laborer² Department, the economy added more jobs than expected last month. It’s NPR’s Morry Lies reports the numbers of welcome news to the Whitehouse.

     The economy added 288,000 jobs in June and the unemployment rate dropped to 6.1%. That is the lowest level since September 2008 when the financial crisis began. The economy is the number one issue in the midterm election and it improved outlooks makes a little this year from a battle democrat³ to argue the recovery is picking up sting even if lots of people still are not feeling the effects. The labor¹ Department report also shows that the unemployment rate is dropping because more people are getting higher not because more people have given up looking for work. The chair man of the president counselor⁴ of economic adviser⁵ shoot a statement pointing out that it is the first time since late 1999 that there has been a total job growth over 200,000 a month for 5 straight months. Morri Liason, NPR News,the Whitehouse.

US’s export’s hitting all time high in May, narrowing the nation’s trade deficit⁶ by more than 5.5 %. Exports of good in-services rose 1% to a record 190 billion dollars.

Negotiations⁷ over Iran, nuclear programs are entering a final faith to determine the size of its future of nuclear and enrichment program. From Vietnam NPR’s Peter Canvin reports a senior American official insists any nuclear agreement should leave Iran with a fraction of what they currently has. A senior administration official in Vietnam disputed Iran’s contention⁸ that international negotiators are sticking into maxi molo positions saying the pass ways they offered to a nuclear deal are thoughtful and reasonable. But on the key issue of the size of Iran’s uranium and enrichment program whereas uranium into spoke⁹ on as many as 50,000 centrifuges. The US official says in order to get a deal, Iran’s program should be a fraction of its current size which is agreed to be about 9000 centrifuges in operation and another 10,000 in stores.The Users had a bilateral¹⁰ meeting with the Iranians, with the talks tightly focused on nuclear issues, not other problems like the situation in Iraq. Peter Canvin, NPR News, Vietnam.

On Wall Street, the dough¹¹ broke through 17,000 marked to closes 17,068. This is NPR News.

The Pentagon is grounding its entire fleet of F-35s, the latest and most advanced generation of US flight object while investigators¹² try to figure out what caused one of them to catch fire on a runway ten days ago. Last month, then , in fire oily prompted fleet wide expectation. The F-35 is the Pentagon’s costly¹³ as weapons program.

The aid groups ox fan is shriving an emergency call for monitorial system, NPR’s Alice reports that Syria’s neighbors are buckling¹⁴ under the strange of millions of refugees, fling the Syrians of a war. Oximen’s cutting amounts 80,000 of Syrian refugees and Jordan alone. Funds are doing during refugees’ key point end. Ox fans interviding up to 260 dollars per month to the poorest families, this life line which many parents choose to give children in school now became off. There’s a desperate need, the organization says, for foreign countries to provide more aid and be settlement options. There are now nearly 3 million refugees in the region and the UN predicts 1.5 million more will join them by the end of 2014 and numnble 1 quarter of the population. The Lebanese social affairs administer says the national infer structure rest collapse¹⁵. I’m Semuce, NPR News, in birus.

The Supreme¹⁶ Court is temporarily exempting¹⁷ a Christian¹⁸ College from offering birth control coverage¹⁹ under the health care law. In a 63 decisions today, justices told the witern college that while ladication continues and it doesn’t have to compliance²⁰ with the certification process,that notifies the government that it objects on religious grounds to providing country seption coverage. Withern says signing a form in fringes on a religious rights.

I’m Barage Berclin, NPR News in Washington.

1 labor   

n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦

参考例句：

• We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
• He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。

2 laborer   

n.劳动者，劳工

参考例句：

• Her husband had been a farm laborer.她丈夫以前是个农场雇工。
• He worked as a casual laborer and did not earn much.他当临时工，没有赚多少钱。

3 democrat   

n.民主主义者，民主人士；民主党党员

参考例句：

• The Democrat and the Public criticized each other.民主党人和共和党人互相攻击。
• About two years later,he was defeated by Democrat Jimmy Carter.大约两年后，他被民主党人杰米卡特击败。

4 counselor   

n.顾问，法律顾问

参考例句：

• The counselor gave us some disinterested advice.顾问给了我们一些无私的忠告。
• Chinese commercial counselor's office in foreign countries.中国驻国外商务参赞处。

5 adviser   

n.劝告者，顾问

参考例句：

• They employed me as an adviser.他们聘请我当顾问。
• Our department has engaged a foreign teacher as phonetic adviser.我们系已经聘请了一位外籍老师作为语音顾问。

6 deficit   

n.亏空，亏损；赤字，逆差

参考例句：

• The directors have reported a deficit of 2.5 million dollars.董事们报告赤字为250万美元。
• We have a great deficit this year.我们今年有很大亏损。

7 negotiations   

协商( negotiation的名词复数 )； 谈判； 完成（难事）； 通过

参考例句：

• negotiations for a durable peace 为持久和平而进行的谈判
• Negotiations have failed to establish any middle ground. 谈判未能达成任何妥协。

8 contention   

n.争论，争辩，论战；论点，主张

参考例句：

• The pay increase is the key point of contention. 加薪是争论的焦点。
• The real bone of contention,as you know,is money.你知道，争论的真正焦点是钱的问题。

9 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

10 bilateral   

adj.双方的，两边的，两侧的

参考例句：

• They have been negotiating a bilateral trade deal.他们一直在商谈一项双边贸易协定。
• There was a wide gap between the views of the two statesmen on the bilateral cooperation.对双方合作的问题，两位政治家各自所持的看法差距甚大。

11 dough   

n.生面团；钱，现款

参考例句：

• She formed the dough into squares.她把生面团捏成四方块。
• The baker is kneading dough.那位面包师在揉面。

12 investigators   

n.调查者，审查者( investigator的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
• The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》

13 costly   

adj.昂贵的，价值高的，豪华的

参考例句：

• It must be very costly to keep up a house like this.维修这么一幢房子一定很昂贵。
• This dictionary is very useful,only it is a bit costly.这本词典很有用，左不过贵了些。

14 buckling   

扣住

参考例句：

• A door slammed in the house and a man came out buckling his belt. 房子里的一扇门砰地关上，一个男子边扣腰带边走了出来。
• The periodic buckling leaves the fibre in a waved conformation. 周期性的弯折在纤维中造成波形构成。

15 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。

16 supreme   

adj.极度的，最重要的；至高的，最高的

参考例句：

• It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
• He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。

17 exempting   

使免除[豁免]( exempt的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• EPA adopted regulations exempting discharges from agricultural activities, with certain exceptions for relatively major pollution sources. 环境保护局采用管制规章，禁止源自农业活动的各种排放，对于一些相关的大型污染源也有例外。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法

18 Christian   

adj.基督教徒的；n.基督教徒

参考例句：

• They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
• His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。

19 coverage   

n.报导，保险范围，保险额，范围，覆盖

参考例句：

• There's little coverage of foreign news in the newspaper.报纸上几乎没有国外新闻报道。
• This is an insurance policy with extensive coverage.这是一项承保范围广泛的保险。

20 compliance   

n.顺从；服从；附和；屈从

参考例句：

• I was surprised by his compliance with these terms.我对他竟然依从了这些条件而感到吃惊。
• She gave up the idea in compliance with his desire.她顺从他的愿望而放弃自己的主意。