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1. Canadian authorities are investigating whether a bomb scare was really a terrorism hoax¹. A plane bound from Toronto to Karachi was diverted to Stockholm after Canadian authorities received a tip that a passenger was carrying explosives. No explosives were found on the plane or on the man.

2. A sudden powerful storm ripped through Haiti's capital Friday, shredding² thousands of tents in homeless camps and killing³ five people including two children. More than a million people have called the camps homes since the devastating⁴ quake eight months ago.

3. Lindsay Lohan didn't even have to spend a night in jail. The actress posted $300,000 bail⁵ late Friday night. Lohan spent a little more than half a day in the women's detention⁶ center, nowhere near the month-long stay ordered by a judge on Friday morning for failing a drug test.

4. Rescuers who battled exhaustion⁷ and darkness succeeded in saving 14 pilot whales from a pod of 74 that have stranded⁸ on a remote New Zealand beach.

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1 hoax
v.欺骗，哄骗，愚弄；n.愚弄人，恶作剧
参考例句：
They were the victims of a cruel hoax.他们是一个残忍恶作剧的受害者。 They hoax him out of his money.他们骗去他的钱。

2 shredding
v.撕碎，切碎( shred的现在分词 )；用撕毁机撕毁（文件）
参考例句：
Like the Tehran experience, the shredding may be all for naught. 如同德黑兰事件中的情况一样，切碎文件可能是徒劳的。来自时文部分 How shredding began is subject to some guesswork. 粉碎处理行业的起源是个有争议的问题。来自时文部分

3 killing
n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财
参考例句：
Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。 Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

4 devastating
adj.毁灭性的，令人震惊的，强有力的
参考例句：
It is the most devastating storm in 20 years.这是20年来破坏性最大的风暴。 Affairs do have a devastating effect on marriages.婚外情确实会对婚姻造成毁灭性的影响。

5 bail
v.舀（水），保释；n.保证金，保释，保释人
参考例句：
One of the prisoner's friends offered to bail him out.犯人的一个朋友答应保释他出来。 She has been granted conditional bail.她被准予有条件保释。

6 detention
n.滞留，停留；拘留，扣留；(教育)留下
参考例句：
He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。 He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。

7 exhaustion
n.耗尽枯竭，疲惫，筋疲力尽，竭尽，详尽无遗的论述
参考例句：
She slept the sleep of exhaustion.她因疲劳而酣睡。 His exhaustion was obvious when he fell asleep standing.他站着睡着了，显然是太累了。

8 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。