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1. The Environmental Protection Agency has taken a major step toward regulating greenhouse gases, saying they are "threat" to the public health. The news comes as the UN's biggest climate change conference is underway in Denmark. Organizers say this may be their last chance to protect the world from global warming.

2. The chairman of the Joint¹ Chiefs of Staff says the insurgency² in Afghanistan has grown in the past three years. Admiral Mike Mullen says sending 3,000 more US troops is an attempt to slow that momentum³. Mullen spoke⁴ to about 1,000 Marines at Camp Lejeune.

3. The largest street protests in months have been seen on the streets of the Iranian capital today. Security forces and militiamen clashed with thousands of protesters outside Tehran University.

4. And the AP got a close look at the Enterprise - Virgin⁵ Galactic founder⁶ Richard Branson's newest passenger spaceship. It's one of a plan to build five commercial spaceships and launch vehicles for the price tag of more than 400 million dollars.

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1 joint
adj.联合的，共同的；n.关节，接合处；v.连接，贴合
参考例句：
I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。 We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。

2 insurgency
n.起义；暴动；叛变
参考例句：
And as in China, unrest and even insurgency are widespread. 而在中国，动乱甚至暴乱都普遍存在。来自互联网 Dr Zyphur is part an insurgency against this idea. 塞弗博士是这一观点逆流的一部分。来自互联网

3 momentum
n.动力，冲力，势头；动量
参考例句：
We exploit the energy and momentum conservation laws in this way.我们就是这样利用能量和动量守恒定律的。 The law of momentum conservation could supplant Newton's third law.动量守恒定律可以取代牛顿第三定律。

4 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。

5 virgin
n.处女，未婚女子；adj.未经使用的；未经开发的
参考例句：
Have you ever been to a virgin forest?你去过原始森林吗？ There are vast expanses of virgin land in the remote regions.在边远地区有大片大片未开垦的土地。

6 Founder
n.创始者，缔造者
参考例句：
He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。 According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说，罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。