英语听力：澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2014-02-04

 Cancer has overtaken heart disease as the No.1 killer¹ both in Australia and around the world. A new report by the World Health Organization says just over eight million people across the world died of cancer in 2012. Forty thousand of them were in Australia.

 

Ian Thorpe's manager has confirmed the Olympics swimming star has been admitted to a rehabilitation² clinic in Sydney. James Erskine says the former swimmer is being treated for depression. Thorpe was found dazed and disoriented near his parents' home in Sydney yesterday.

 

Police in Victoria are offering a one-million-dollar reward for information about the disappearance³ of Melbourne school girl Siriyakorn Siriboon, also known as “Bung”. The 13-year-old's family will join police today to announce the reward. The girl went missing while walking to school in June, 2011. 

 

A 13-year-old boy will face court today after a stabbing at a school on the New South Wales south coast. A 14-year-old boy was stabbed in the chest during a fight with two other students at SHOALHAVEN High School yesterday. He's in a serious but stable condition in hospital.

 

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has continued his criticism of the ABC. He's told the 7:30 program the national broadcaster should have better corroborated⁴ its reports into claims the navy mistreated asylum⁵ seekers. The ABC's Managing Director Mark Scott has to defend the way the public broadcaster has reported those asylum-seeker claims.

1 killer   

n.杀人者，杀人犯，杀手，屠杀者

参考例句：

• Heart attacks have become Britain's No.1 killer disease.心脏病已成为英国的头号致命疾病。
• The bulk of the evidence points to him as her killer.大量证据证明是他杀死她的。

2 rehabilitation   

n.康复，悔过自新，修复，复兴，复职，复位

参考例句：

• He's booked himself into a rehabilitation clinic.他自己联系了一家康复诊所。
• No one can really make me rehabilitation of injuries.已经没有人可以真正令我的伤康复了。

3 disappearance   

n.消失，消散，失踪

参考例句：

• He was hard put to it to explain her disappearance.他难以说明她为什么不见了。
• Her disappearance gave rise to the wildest rumours.她失踪一事引起了各种流言蜚语。

4 corroborated   

v.证实，支持（某种说法、信仰、理论等）( corroborate的过去式 )

参考例句：

• The evidence was corroborated by two independent witnesses. 此证据由两名独立证人提供。
• Experiments have corroborated her predictions. 实验证实了她的预言。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 asylum   

n.避难所，庇护所，避难

参考例句：

• The people ask for political asylum.人们请求政治避难。
• Having sought asylum in the West for many years,they were eventually granted it.他们最终获得了在西方寻求多年的避难权。