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 The punishing drought in California is fueling some of the most destructive wild fire yet keeping thousands of evacuees¹ wondering yet another day whether they will have a home to go back to. Among them, residents of the Northern California community of Middleton, population 1323. Capital Public Radio's LM reports a fast-moving valley fire burning north of SR has destroyed at least half the town. PF is parked in a road block outside of town. She doesn't know if her family's home is still standing². 'It's like one side of the block is burnt. Across the street it's OK. So it's not predicable. We're not sure.'Another resident VF says she hasn't slept for days.'It looks like a barren waste land have burnt. And it stinks³ and it's hard to breathe. And it's cloudy which is keeping all the smoke in and it makes the air quality extraordinarily⁴ poor. And it's just been...it's been a nightmare.' Forster didn't lose her house but three of her cousins in the area have lost their homes. NPR news, I'm LM.

Rescue teams with the help of search dogs are looking for survivors⁵ of flash flood that have killed at least 9 people in the town on the Utah-Arizona boarder. Several people are still missing. They were among women and children and two vehicles swept away by the high waters. More rain is in the forecast raising fears of more floods and casualties. Migrants are stranded⁶ at the Hungarian border unable to travel through to Austria and Germany after the Hungarian government enacted⁷ tougher measures to curtail⁸ the number of new arrivals. More than 170 people have already been  been arrested for trying to break through a new border fence. They face criminal prosecution⁹ now. As a result, Hungary is taking hit from human rights activists¹⁰, western European nations and its neighbor Serbia as LF reports. Hungary has declared a state of emergency in two of its counties that border Serbia. This is where tens of thousands of migrants and refugees have streamed into the EU in recent weeks. But Hungary sealed the boarder last night. Now any asylum-seekers will have to wait at official boarder posts except their cases held by a judge. Thousands of migrants are heading northward¹¹ and a backlog¹² is forming in Serbia. The Serbian foreign minister says it's unacceptable and that his country can't deal with it on its own.From NPR news. I'm LM in R in the Hungary-Serbia border.

Nearly two dozens of people including children have drowned off Turkey's coast. Local media stated the victims' wooden boat sank between Turkey and the Greek Island of Kos. Two days ago, 34 people were drowned off a Greek Island. Hundreds of people, many of them the from Mid-east, Africa and Asia have made the dangerous sea-crossing to escape poverty or conflict at home in search of a better life in Europe. Before the closing bell, Dow was up 229 points at 16160. This is NPR news.

Teachers in Washington State are still on the picket¹³ lines but not from much longer to appear. The Seattle Unions says it has an attentive¹⁴ labor¹⁵ agreement but a spokesman says the executive board may still approve that deal before the strike is formally called off. Teachers went on strike five days ago over evaluations¹⁶, pay raises and other issues and delayed the start of the new school year for more than 50,000 students. CBS's entertainment chairman Nina Tesler, one of broadcast TV's longest-tenured entertainment executives, is stepping down. NPR's ED says T has championed gender¹⁷ diversity in network television. In her 11 years as an entertainment chief of CNS, NT has helped developed the shows like the upcoming Super Girl Series, the Big Bang Theory, CSI and CSI Miami with its *based on its classic *. Tesler has announced plans to step down as chairman at the end of the year. She'll be succeeded by a former subordinate GG filling the new role of entertainment president effectively and immediately. Tesler is the only woman who currently runs a broadcast network entertainment division without a male co-chair. She has been credited for getting more female-centered shows on CBS and more women in top-executive and producer jobs.ED, NPR news.

US businesses are posting a slight tenth of a percent increase in their inventories¹⁸ over the month of July. The Commerce Department says the gain is the smallest since the winter. In a separate economic report, the government notes a two tenth of a percent increase in retail¹⁹ sales last month. Both were by spending in cars and clothes. All major macerating indexes up more than one percent. This is NPR.

1 evacuees   

n.被疏散者( evacuee的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Moreover, for multi-exits, evacuees select a exit based on game theory. 在有多个出口时，疏散人员根据对策论选择出口。 来自互联网
• Evacuees wade through flooded area following heavy monsoon rains in Peshawar on Saturday, July 31, 2010. 撤离灾区涉水通过后在白沙瓦沉重的季风降雨在周六，2010年7月31日。 来自互联网

2 standing   

n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的

参考例句：

• After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
• They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。

3 stinks   

v.散发出恶臭( stink的第三人称单数 )；发臭味；名声臭；糟透

参考例句：

• The whole scheme stinks to high heaven—don't get involved in it. 整件事十分卑鄙龌龊——可别陷了进去。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The soup stinks of garlic. 这汤有大蒜气味。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

4 extraordinarily   

adv.格外地；极端地

参考例句：

• She is an extraordinarily beautiful girl.她是个美丽非凡的姑娘。
• The sea was extraordinarily calm that morning.那天清晨，大海出奇地宁静。

5 survivors   

幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
• survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者

6 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。

7 enacted   

制定（法律），通过（法案）( enact的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• legislation enacted by parliament 由议会通过的法律
• Outside in the little lobby another scene was begin enacted. 外面的小休息室里又是另一番景象。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹

8 curtail   

vt.截短，缩短；削减

参考例句：

• The government hopes to curtail public spending.政府希望缩减公共事业开支。
• The minister had to curtail his visit.部长不得不缩短访问日期。

9 prosecution   

n.起诉，告发，检举，执行，经营

参考例句：

• The Smiths brought a prosecution against the organizers.史密斯家对组织者们提出起诉。
• He attempts to rebut the assertion made by the prosecution witness.他试图反驳原告方证人所作的断言。

10 activists   

n.（政治活动的）积极分子，活动家( activist的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
• Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》

11 northward   

adv.向北；n.北方的地区

参考例句：

• He pointed his boat northward.他将船驶向北方。
• I would have a chance to head northward quickly.我就很快有机会去北方了。

12 backlog   

n.积压未办之事

参考例句：

• It will take a month to clear the backlog of work.要花一个月的时间才能清理完积压的工作。
• Investment is needed to reduce the backlog of repairs.需要投资来減轻积压的维修工作。

13 picket   

n.纠察队；警戒哨；v.设置纠察线；布置警卫

参考例句：

• They marched to the factory and formed a picket.他们向工厂前进,并组成了纠察队。
• Some of the union members did not want to picket.工会的一些会员不想担任罢工纠察员。

14 attentive   

adj.注意的，专心的；关心(别人)的，殷勤的

参考例句：

• She was very attentive to her guests.她对客人招待得十分周到。
• The speaker likes to have an attentive audience.演讲者喜欢注意力集中的听众。

15 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。

16 evaluations   

估价( evaluation的名词复数 )； 赋值； 估计价值； [医学]诊断

参考例句：

• In fact, our moral evaluations are merely expressions of our desires. 事实上，我们的道德评价只是我们欲望的表达形式。 来自哲学部分
• Properly speaking, however, these evaluations and insights are not within the concept of official notice. 但准确地讲，这些评估和深远见识并未包括在官方通知概念里。

17 gender   

n.（生理上的）性，（名词、代词等的）性

参考例句：

• French differs from English in having gender for all nouns.法语不同于英语，所有的名词都有性。
• Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender.妇女有时仅仅因为性别而无法获得种种机会。

18 inventories   

n.总结( inventory的名词复数 )；细账；存货清单（或财产目录）的编制

参考例句：

• In other cases, such as inventories, inputs and outputs are both continuous. 在另一些情况下，比如存货，其投入和产出都是持续不断的。
• The store must clear its winter inventories by April 1st. 该店必须在4月1日前售清冬季存货。

19 retail   

v./n.零售；adv.以零售价格

参考例句：

• In this shop they retail tobacco and sweets.这家铺子零售香烟和糖果。
• These shoes retail at 10 yuan a pair.这些鞋子零卖10元一双。