英语听力：澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2014-04-25

 Large crowds have been attending Anzac dawn services across the country. It's 99 years since the Australian and New Zealand troops stormed the beaches of Gallipoli. In Canberra, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge joined thousands of people at the dawn service at the National War Memorial. 

 

Labour says the Federal government still has a lot of questions to answer despite releasing details of its climate change policy. The government will pay the country's top polluters 2.5 billion dollars to cut their emissions¹. The companies will have to cap their emissions. But it's unclear at this stage what penalties, if any, will apply if they exceed it. 

 

Police in South Australia will retrieve² the body of a rock-climber this morning who fell to his death in the Flinders Ranges. The man was rock-climbing with a group at a popular location when he fell about 50 meters off a cliff and onto a ledge³. 

 

At guard at a hospital in the Afghan capital Kabul had shot dead three American medical staff. The hospital is run by a US charity and it specializes in children's minister and maternal⁴ health. A fourth American and an Afghan staff member were wounded in the attack. 

 

Russia has ordered new military exercises on its border with Ukraine. This is in response to Ukraine's attack on checkpoints in the country's east that had killed five pro-Russian militants⁵. Ukraine's acting⁶ president has demanded that Russia pulls back its troops from that border.

1 emissions   

排放物( emission的名词复数 )； 散发物（尤指气体）

参考例句：

• Most scientists accept that climate change is linked to carbon emissions. 大多数科学家都相信气候变化与排放的含碳气体有关。
• Dangerous emissions radiate from plutonium. 危险的辐射物从钚放散出来。

2 retrieve   

vt.重新得到，收回；挽回，补救；检索

参考例句：

• He was determined to retrieve his honor.他决心恢复名誉。
• The men were trying to retrieve weapons left when the army abandoned the island.士兵们正试图找回军队从该岛撤退时留下的武器。

3 ledge   

n.壁架，架状突出物；岩架，岩礁

参考例句：

• They paid out the line to lower him to the ledge.他们放出绳子使他降到那块岩石的突出部分。
• Suddenly he struck his toe on a rocky ledge and fell.突然他的脚趾绊在一块突出的岩石上，摔倒了。

4 maternal   

adj.母亲的，母亲般的，母系的，母方的

参考例句：

• He is my maternal uncle.他是我舅舅。
• The sight of the hopeless little boy aroused her maternal instincts.那个绝望的小男孩的模样唤起了她的母性。

5 militants   

激进分子，好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
• Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。

6 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。