英语听力：澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2014-05-22

 A 35-year-old man has been arrested during a major incident in inner Melbourne this morning. Police targeted a prime mover that was being driven erratically¹ on the Monash Freeway early this morning. And the Bomb Response Squad² has been called in. Drivers in the immediate³ area had been told to leave their vehicles. A 15km stretch of the southeastern freeway has been blocked.

 

 

The man who led Labour School Funding Review David Gonski is urging the Abbott government to reconsider its cuts to education. The government will scrap⁴ the Gonski funding model after 2017 and move to lower-inflation-based funding increases. David Gonski says this is an unfortunate decision that won't provide adequate funding.

 

 

More than 20 people, mostly children, have been rushed to hospital after a bus crash near Perth. The school bus was carrying Malaysian and Indonesian students when it ran off the road. Police say none of the injuries are life-threatening.

 

 

The first asylum⁵ seekers on their road to receive refugee visas have now been released into the community. Thirteen people were given refugee protection. Now they are given the option of settling in Cambodia if the deal is signed with Australia soon. The decision on the refugee status of another 21 people will be made later today.

 

 

EBay users have been urged to change their passwords after a cyber attack on the company's database. The attack is thought to have taken place between late February and early March. So far the US company says there's been no evidence of unauthorized activity on its members' accounts.

1 erratically   

adv.不规律地，不定地

参考例句：

• Police stopped him for driving erratically. 警察因其驾驶不循规则而把他拦下了。 来自辞典例句
• Magnetitite-bearing plugs are found erratically from the base of the Critical Zone. 含磁铁岩的岩栓不规则地分布于关键带的基底以上。 来自辞典例句

2 squad   

n.班，小队，小团体；vt.把…编成班或小组

参考例句：

• The squad leader ordered the men to mark time.班长命令战士们原地踏步。
• A squad is the smallest unit in an army.班是军队的最小构成单位。

3 immediate   

adj.立即的；直接的，最接近的；紧靠的

参考例句：

• His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
• We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。

4 scrap   

n.碎片；废料；v.废弃，报废

参考例句：

• A man comes round regularly collecting scrap.有个男人定时来收废品。
• Sell that car for scrap.把那辆汽车当残品卖了吧。

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。